BETHESDA, MD, December 4, 2023 – WHC convened a high-level gathering of company leaders working on the intersection of enterprise and biodiversity on November 7, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. The WHC Enterprise & Nature Summit sought to discover the evolving panorama of regulatory and voluntary drivers for nature engagement and help the prioritization of integrating nature-related issues into danger assessments, disclosures, and enterprise decision-making.

As an originator of connecting corporations to nature, WHC introduced collectively a singular mixture of corporations from throughout sectors and the worth chain. The members represented a spectrum {of professional} roles throughout varied trade sectors together with power, building, oil and gasoline, mining, chemical substances and extra. WHC supplied the members with a sales-free setting for frank discussions in regards to the rising expectations and their real-world implications.

“This panorama of recent requirements and expectations round sustainability and biodiversity is creating the enabling circumstances for corporations to behave to halt and reverse nature loss,“ mentioned WHC President Margaret O’Gorman. “Our purpose with the Enterprise & Nature Summit is to create a discussion board the place company leaders can join throughout sectors to share and learn the way these many new initiatives work in the actual world of enterprise in order that we will speed up adoption and implementation to attain actual wins for nature.”

The one worldwide NGO centered solely on connecting corporations to nature, WHC brings 35 years of expertise in serving to firms perceive how one can take motion for nature. The WHC Enterprise & Nature Summit helped handle uncertainty round new ESG expectations via open conversations to finally help trade leaders of their biodiversity uplift work.

About WHC:

WHC has been working on the nexus of enterprise and nature for 35 years. It’s the solely worldwide NGO centered completely on enabling non-public sector motion for nature. WHC builds methods and frameworks that join company ambition for nature to sturdy motion on company lands. WHC works with principally Fortune 500 firms, traversing worth chains, jurisdictions and geographies. It seeks to combine nature, particularly biodiversity, with local weather, fairness and engagement to help sustainable ecosystems and wholesome communities. WHC’s company members symbolize a few of the main nationwide and multinational firms in search of to help sustainable ecosystems and the communities that encompass them. These efforts have resulted in additional than 1,000 licensed packages throughout 47 states and 28 nations.