WWF Accredited E-Learning: Nature-Related Risks for Professionals

While momentum to address the climate crisis has grown rapidly over the past decade, the evidence is increasingly clear that we face a double, interlinked emergency – nature loss. In just the past 50 years, global wildlife populations have plummeted by 69%, and increasing demand for energy, food and other materials has led to large-scale ecosystem degradation. While more than half of the world’s economic output – US$58tn of economic value generation – is moderately or highly dependent on nature, companies, investors and lenders are still not adequately accounting for nature-related risks and opportunities in their decisions. 

Many hope that the new Global Biodiversity Framework adopted at the CBD COP 15 in December 2022 – which establishes new targets to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 – will provide an impetus for action on nature akin to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C target for global warming. Without addressing nature-related risks, our progress on climate and other global sustainability goals such as the SDGs, is likely to fall short. 

This course aims to equip professionals with answers to key questions, such as: 

• “Why should professionals care about the health and integrity of nature?” 
• “How might issues like species & habitat loss and ecosystem degradation impact my clients and my organisation?” 
• “What are the first steps I should take to begin managing nature-related risks?”