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Roadmap to Nature Positive. Foundation for the Built environment System

The foundations for the built environment system 9 The foundations for the built environment system provide a common understanding of what nature positive means for the built environment value chain. It also provides guidance on how to conduct a materiality assessment, how to identify priority actions and how to initiate transformative change at a system, landscape and company level. The next iteration of this Roadmap will focus on target-setting and defining suitable indicators to measure progress. The target audience for this guidance is very broad, reflecting the diversity of the built environment system, which consists of manufacturers, designers, architects, engineers, constructors, developers, real estate businesses, as well as public authorities and financial institutions. The built environment system is responsible for 40% of global CO2 emissions, 40% of global resource use and 40% of global waste streams.11 It is also one of the four value chains, along with food, energy and fashion, responsible for approximately 90% of nature and biodiversity loss worldwide.12 Its impact is predicted only to increase. Projections show that urban land area will increase by 1.2 million km2 by 203013 and include 10 additional megacities (population over 10 million).14 By 2050, 68% of the world population will be living in urban areas,15 adding 2.5 billion people.16 As a result, the size of the built environment is set to double17 with the global population expected to reach 9.8 billion,18 putting high pressure on nature through increased use of water, release of pollutants and production of waste. In particular, the growth in urban areas, already estimated to impact nearly one-third of threatened and near-threatened species, will have an even more significant harmful impact on nature and biodiversity. This could take many forms: land conversion, habitat fragmentation, disturbance and pollution during construction, not to mention the harmful indirect effects of upstream and downstream processes. The loss of nature is disrupting business through material risks in operations and value chains that stem in part from companies’ impacts and dependencies on nature. All businesses must therefore work to quantify and manage their nature-related risks. They must account for nature and take action to halt and reverse nature loss. A massive systemic transformation of the built environment is essential to solve the interlinked climate and nature crises. It is essential to accelerate this transformational change if the world is to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and the societal goal of nature positive. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), sets a global ambition to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 as a milestone to full recovery by 2050. To effectively respond to the biodiversity emergency, action must be taken today. This is especially true for built environment projects currently in development that are designed to be operational in 2030. Fortunately, there are many opportunities for the built environment system to avoid, reduce impacts and restore nature, particularly by taking a circular economy approach to building material production systems and waste streams.

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https://www.wbcsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Roadmaps-to-Nature-Positive-Foundations-for-the-built-environment-system.pdf

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