The Guardian has ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but what about our wider impact on nature? This is a question we are beginning to ask ourselves to help understand how our activities can affect the biodiversity crisis, as well as the climate crisis.
Science tells us that the two are linked and equally pressing. It’s understood that humanity needs to restore the natural world to reach targets on climate – to stop burning fossil fuels, but also to suck carbon out of the atmosphere into healthy ecosystems. Through our reporting, we are raising awareness of the scale of the biodiversity crisis and potential ways to avert catastrophic loss of wildlife, and although we are much smaller than many of the businesses we report on, looking at our own biodiversity impact is a natural next step.
