Nature Positive Role of the Technology Sector 2025

Setting credible nature strategies and taking action Despite these drivers and the increased momentum on nature over recent years, more can be done – both within the tech sector and across sectors. While 78% of Fortune Global 500 companies had climate change targets in 2024, only 26% had freshwater consumption targets and just 12% had targets for biodiversity loss.26 Only 5% of companies have assessed their impacts on nature, with less than 1% understanding their dependencies.27 Nature is understandably a complex topic for company management teams – there is no single metric and impacts are highly context-dependent. However, by establishing and implementing credible nature strategies, individual companies, financial institutions and investors can contribute to the global nature-positive goal of reversing nature loss by 2030. These strategies should apply across organizations’ spheres of control and influence, including at sites of high-biodiversity importance, in their direct operations as well as across their value chains. Need for a sectoral approach As nature impacts and dependencies differ significantly across sectors, analyses and guidance that are sector-specific can help companies understand their relationship with nature and the actions they can take to accelerate the transition to a nature-positive future. To inform sectoral approaches, the World Economic Forum, alongside Business for Nature and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), have produced guidance on 15 global sectors as part of the Sector Actions Towards a Nature-Positive Future initiative. For each sector, the guidance outlines priority actions for companies to take to transform their operations and value chains to make a meaningful contribution towards the Global Biodiversity Framework and help halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.     In this report, the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, makes the business case for sector-specific priority actions in the technology sector. Future work will detail the sector’s opportunities to enable and influence the nature-positive transition beyond its own value chain, both with other companies and with everyday consumers who rely on tech products.Fortune Global 500 companies’ position on climate and nature BOX 2 5% have assessed their impacts on nature< 1% understand their dependencies on nature78% have climate change targets26% have freshwater consumption targets12% have targets for biodiversity loss Nature Positive: Role of the Technology Sector 12