Nature Positive Role of the Automotive Sector China Deep dive

Automotive companies can contribute to a nature- positive future by prioritizing actions to: 1) avoid and reduce impacts from operations, 2) avoid and reduce impacts from materials, 3) transform product offerings, 4) conserve and restore nature, and 5) drive cross-sector collaboration.Given how much of the sector’s impacts are upstream and downstream, these priority actions require companies to actively engage with suppliers, retailers, customers, consumers and industry peers to transform their value chains. While some of these actions are already being employed or gradually rolled out by Chinese businesses, this report calls for accelerated efforts in China’s automotive sector. Five priority actions for the automotive sector 2 341 5Avoid and reduce impacts from operations Avoid and reduce impacts from materials Transform product offeringConserve and restore nature with Indigenous Peoples and local communities Drive cross-sector collaboration on standards, transparency, infrastructure and policyFive priority actions for the automotive sector FIGURE 6 Taking these five priority actions across operations and the wider value chain will help companies in the sector avoid or reduce the four drivers of biodiversity loss (pollution, water use, land- use change, ecosystem disturbance and GHG emissions) across the four nature realms (land, ocean, freshwater and atmosphere), mitigate risks to operations and unlock commercial opportunities. These actions will also contribute to the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, which aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 (see Table 5). Nature Positive: Role of the Automotive Sector – China Deep-dive 25