Introducing The Little Book of Nature Business

Global Canopy releases The Little Book of Nature Business – An investment framework for tomorrow’s world

Investment and business opportunities that can benefit nature have been wrongly typecast as limited to “bees, trees and farmers”. Global Canopy’s new book, The Little Book of Nature Business, busts that myth by showcasing nature innovations spanning eight economic sectors – including food, construction, utilities and extractives – with potential to scale and support the global transition toward a US$10tn nature-positive economy.

The Little Book of Nature Business offers investors, lenders, businesses and policymakers a simple inspirational guide to investing in the transition.

Book highlights

• An inspirational guide to the types of existing large-scale opportunities and emerging innovations that offer investors, lenders, businesses and policymakers ideas for further investigation
• Innovative business and investment opportunities spanning eight economic sectors including food, construction, utilities and extractives
• 80+ case studies offering practical examples of investment opportunities in action, and illustrating how businesses are innovating and adopting practices that sustainably manage their dependencies and reduce harmful impacts on nature, increase positive impacts on nature, and can contribute to the transition
• Illustrates how nature drives value and innovation, supporting the transition toward a US$10tn nature-positive economy, rather than nature loss presenting a mere source of risk and potential cost to businesses and financial institutions
• 200 ‘business actions for nature’ aligned with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
• Authored by John Tobin-de la Puente, Professor of Practice at the SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, and Andrew Mitchell, Founder and Senior Advisor to Global Canopy
• The digital book is free to download via the form below.

Global Canopy’s Little Book series

The free digital book is the latest in Global Canopy’s Little Book series, which makes complex issues at the interface between nature and finance understandable and accessible to investors, lenders, businesses and policymakers. The Little Book of Nature Business follows The Little Book of Investing in Nature, which was published in 2021 and provides an essential overview of biodiversity finance.

The Little Book of Nature Business was published thanks to the generous support of our donors: FSD Africa; HSBC; IDH; the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) via the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Rebalance Earth; Standard Chartered; Unisea Shipping Ltd and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).