Nature is Positive
How leveraging Nature’s ecosystem performance benchmarks enables action towards a nature positive future today
Launching your organization’s nature positive journey can feel urgent yet uncertain. You might be asking, what does success look like, and how might we measure it? How do we choose which nature positive actions will yield the intended outcomes? What framework or tools can be widely applied but locally appropriate?
You don’t have to start from scratch.
Nature has been practicing “nature positive” for 3.8 billion years.
The result? Highly biodiverse, complex ecosystems that deliver the outcomes universally required for human and other species’ survival, health, and wellbeing: clean air and water, healthy soils, climate regulation, and more.
You can learn from Nature’s successes to guide your journey.
In this paper, a collaboration between Biomimicry 3.8 and EcoMetrix Solutions Group, we present an overview of a simple and proven approach to measuring the integrity and effectiveness of all nature-positive efforts: Evaluate the ecosystem performance of the solutions against Nature’s proven benchmarks.
In this paper you’ll find introductory guidance for:
- Why Nature’s performance is the right benchmark,
- Why this science-based, data-driven, and universally applicable place-based approach can unlock advancement,
- Steps for leveraging nature’s performance benchmarks in your own goal-setting, decision-making, design, and implementation processes,
- How pioneering companies like Microsoft and Jacobs are employing this approach today, and
- Existing enabling methodologies and tools that leverage and learn from Nature’s benchmarks to drive nature positive outcomes.
About Project Positive
In 2019, Biomimicry 3.8 launched Project Positive, a collaborative of change agents dedicated to raising the bar on what acting sustainably means through biomimicry and Positive Performance. In a precompetitive environment, members learn from and inspire each other to activate, accelerate, and scale nature positive solutions. Today, members of Project Positive are demonstrating that companies can progress their economic agendas, support climate, circularity and biodiversity goals, and engage their employees & local communities while driving innovation and positive impact for people and planet.
About Biomimicry 3.8
Biomimicry 3.8 is the world’s leading bio-inspired consultancy offering innovation services, strategic consulting, professional training, and thought leadership to support the development of sustainable and regenerative products, processes, places, and organizations. Since 1998, Biomimicry 3.8 has helped change-makers and innovators turn time-tested biological strategies into sustainable solutions, including Boeing, Colgate Palmolive, Nike, General Electric, Herman Miller, HOK architects, IDEO, Interface, Natura, Procter & Gamble, Levi’s, Kohler, Google, General Mills, and more.
About Ecometrix Solutions Group
EMX specializes in ecosystem service quantification to help organizations understand how changes or impacts to natural capital assets at any scale (site level to landscape) can affect project sustainability and risk. In response to a rapidly evolving global focus on biodiversity, EMX launched Ecosystem Intelligence, a proven ecosystem performance quantification platform that enables rapid cost-effective assessment of nature impacts to support informed nature-based decision-making. EI is a next-generation tool rooted in EMX’s collaboration with 100+ subject matter experts across 40+ countries over the last 20+ years.
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