When the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) began reinventing itself to better respond to escalating environmental crises, it learned that effectively implementing change across its global network of 9,000 staff would require treating innovation as a way of working, not a separate workstream. Easier said than done, write Lisa Canova and Katherine Tatarinov in their case study for SSIR’s latest issue. As WWF tried to embed innovation into its core functions, it faced barriers that may be familiar to many organizations trying to reinvent themselves: * Workflows designed for stability, accountability, and compliance, not agility * Slow approval chains * Unclear mandates * Siloed responsibilities, teams, and functions A big part of WWF’s effort to overcome these challenges was the formation of its Global Innovation Team, which was tasked with driving transformation throughout WWF’s global offices. It eventually established three strategic pillars to ensure innovation imbues the organization’s work: learn, apply, and spread. 💡Read the full article now to explore examples of these conceptual pillars in action: https://lnkd.in/daP6qtzw
WWF's journey to embed innovation in its core functions
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In the latest Stanford Social Innovation Review issue, research fellows Lisa Canova and Katherine Tatarinov share insight from WWF’s innovation journey! 🌍🐼 The article takes readers inside one of the world’s largest #conservationorganizations, showing how WWF has built the #structures, #mindsets, and #practices that embed innovation across its global network. From rethinking conservation strategies to mobilising cross-sector partnerships, the case study highlights how mission-driven organisations can stay true to their purpose while transforming the way they work. It is great to see how organisations open up their innovation journeys, allowing valuable learnings to be shared with the broader #socialimpact community. 👉 The article is open access on SSIR until October 9! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/daP6qtzw
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When it comes to sustainability, the organisations shaping our collective future aren’t just corporations or governments—they’re the associations that set standards, build networks, and mobilise action. Sustainability Magazine recently spotlighted the Top 10 Sustainability Associations making the biggest impact—from the Forest Stewardship Council protecting 160M+ hectares of forest, to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation pushing circular economy thinking, to the World Green Building Council driving net zero buildings worldwide. At the top of the list is the United Nations Global Compact, now the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative with over 20,000 participants across 160+ countries. These associations are shaping how industries operate, how policies evolve, and how communities respond to climate and ESG challenges. For those of us working in ESG and impact, the lesson is simple: > Collaboration is non-negotiable. > Standards and certifications are powerful levers. > New entrants (like the Global Impact Coalition) are rising fast and reshaping the field. These associations remind us that progress happens when knowledge, accountability, and ambition come together. 👉 Which association do you think is driving the most transformative change right now? Full article here: https://lnkd.in/gxi8UngF #Sustainability #ESG #ClimateAction #SustainableLeadership #CircularEconomy #NetZero #ImpactInvesting #GreenBusiness #CorporateResponsibility #FutureofSustainability
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🌿 Exciting News from Link Sustainable Eco-deal! 🌿 We are happy to announce that Link Sustainable Eco-deal (LSE) is an approved Business Advisor with Business Link Pacific (BLP)—a regional initiative supporting small and medium-sized enterprises across the Pacific. As a BLP-accredited advisor for Climate Change Adaptation, LSE offers subsidized services to eligible SMEs, helping them build resilience and thrive in a changing climate. Founded in December 2020, LSE is a social eco-enterprise specializing in: 📢 Conservation 📢 Climate Change 📢 Sustainable Community Development We work closely with rural communities to identify livelihood gaps, promote self-reliance, and advance sustainable development. Our mission also includes advocating for biodiversity conservation and climate action. 💼 What this means for our partners and communities: ✅ Verified expertise in business advisory and technical support 🌱 Continued focus on eco-innovation, inclusive growth, and climate-smart development 🤝 Stronger partnerships with SMEs and development stakeholders across PNG and the Pacific We’re excited to expand our impact and continue linking communities to sustainable solutions—empowering eco-deals, driving inclusive growth, and creating pathways for change. 🔗 Let’s build a greener, more resilient future together. #BusinessLinkPacific #SustainableDevelopment #EcoInnovation #PacificSMEs #LinkSustainableEcoDeal #InclusiveGrowth #ClimateAction #BLPAdvisor #PapuaNewGuinea #GreenBusiness
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🌿Want to know more about Planning and Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)? I work with Victoria Heath MRTPI , who shares our approach in the video below. 🚨Spoiler alert; it's all about teamwork, our Natural Capital specialists collaborate with Vicky and our Planning team to deliver applications on time, in budget and with a positive impact on the environment. #WeAreFG #ESG #Teamwork
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INSEAD at the IUCN World Conservation Congress We are proud to partner with the IUCN World Conservation Congress - Business Summit to share our research and foster global collaboration for transformational change. Building on INSEAD’s pioneering role at global sustainability forums (WEF, COP, UN PRME, ChangeNOW, Stewardship Asia), this collaboration reinforces the school’s commitment to equip leaders with the knowledge and tools to drive inclusive and sustainable economic transformation. As environmental challenges intensify, businesses are called not only to minimize harm but to contribute to the restoration of ecosystems. At INSEAD, we see this shift as both a business imperative and a moral responsibility — and an opportunity for innovation, resilience, and long-term value creation. As part of the partnership, INSEAD Affiliate Professor Lite J. Nartey, PhD will lead the session on inclusive stakeholder strategies for nature-positive futures. In this session, Professor Lite Nartey explores how the private sector can unlock value and deliver impact by embedding inclusive stakeholder engagement and contextual intelligence into sustainability strategies. Drawing on real-world case studies and practitioner insights from around the world, the session highlights how businesses can co-create solutions alongside communities, policymakers, and researchers that are both locally grounded and strategically aligned with the IUCN Nature 2030 Programme. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eGY_r7gC If you’re attending the IUCN Business Summit, connect with our INSEAD Hoffmann Institute representative Maria Fedorova. Razan Al Mubarak, Grethel Aguilar, Zeina Sleiman, Ian Gunderson
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Way forward towards business taking action for nature: At IUCN congress in Abu Dhabi, INSEAD will be running a session on how businesses can co-create nature positive futures through inclusive stakeholder strategies. 💪 #natyre #naturebasedsolutions
INSEAD at the IUCN World Conservation Congress We are proud to partner with the IUCN World Conservation Congress - Business Summit to share our research and foster global collaboration for transformational change. Building on INSEAD’s pioneering role at global sustainability forums (WEF, COP, UN PRME, ChangeNOW, Stewardship Asia), this collaboration reinforces the school’s commitment to equip leaders with the knowledge and tools to drive inclusive and sustainable economic transformation. As environmental challenges intensify, businesses are called not only to minimize harm but to contribute to the restoration of ecosystems. At INSEAD, we see this shift as both a business imperative and a moral responsibility — and an opportunity for innovation, resilience, and long-term value creation. As part of the partnership, INSEAD Affiliate Professor Lite J. Nartey, PhD will lead the session on inclusive stakeholder strategies for nature-positive futures. In this session, Professor Lite Nartey explores how the private sector can unlock value and deliver impact by embedding inclusive stakeholder engagement and contextual intelligence into sustainability strategies. Drawing on real-world case studies and practitioner insights from around the world, the session highlights how businesses can co-create solutions alongside communities, policymakers, and researchers that are both locally grounded and strategically aligned with the IUCN Nature 2030 Programme. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eGY_r7gC If you’re attending the IUCN Business Summit, connect with our INSEAD Hoffmann Institute representative Maria Fedorova. Razan Al Mubarak, Grethel Aguilar, Zeina Sleiman, Ian Gunderson
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🌱 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐔𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 ⚡ 👣 𝑈𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠. 𝑈𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝. 𝑈𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒. 🌍 📢 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟑: 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐚 🇨🇷 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥'𝘴 𝘉𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 By the 1980s, Costa Rica had lost almost 80% of its forests. What happened next wasn’t luck — it was leadership. 👣 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 — Parks as a National Project Two visionaries, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐁𝐨𝐳𝐚 and 𝐀𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐨 𝐔𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐞, pushed the first national parks into existence in the 1970s — against the odds. They weren’t politicians or tycoons, just scientists who believed that protecting wild spaces could define a nation. They built institutions, trained park rangers, convinced farmers, and transformed “conservation” into an identity. ⚖️ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝗟𝐚𝐰𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 — Turning Ethics into Economics In 1996, under 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲́ 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶́𝗮 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗢𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗻 and 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗲́ 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼, Costa Rica passed the landmark Forest Law No. 7575. It outlawed deforestation — and more importantly, it introduced Payments for Environmental Services (PES), a radical idea for its time: 🌿 Pay landowners not to cut trees. 🌧️ Reward forests for storing water, carbon, and biodiversity. ⛽ Fund it with a small fuel tax — linking consumption with restoration. 💰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝗦𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬 — Funding Regeneration 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗿𝗶́𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘇, then a young policymaker and later Minister of Environment, helped turn the idea into a system that lasted — channeled through 𝗙𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢, a dedicated public fund. He would go on to lead the Global Environment Facility, carrying Costa Rica’s proof that conservation and prosperity can reinforce each other. 🌎 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝗥𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 — Regeneration as National DNA 🌴 Today, 60% of Costa Rica is covered in forest again. Farmers earn from protecting watersheds. Tourism thrives on ecological integrity. One of the World's most biodiverse hotspot is safe. And the country remains one of the few on Earth to reverse deforestation at scale. This wasn’t theatre. It was a deliberate, intergenerational project — built by citizens who understood that their forest was their wealth, and who were able to think beyond 12 year horizons. 👏 🇨🇷 🌿 Links in comments. #TheQuietUprising #CostaRica #NatureBasedSolutions #Biodiversity #PES #FONAFIFO #NationalParks #EcologicalLeadership #ClimateResilience #NatureAssets
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🌎 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)'s CEO, Tony Goldner, attended the World Summit of Indigenous Leaders and Nature today on the margins of the IUCN World Conservation Congress. Organised by TNFD's partners, IUCN and the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), today's gathering assembled 200 Indigenous leaders from around the world with clear recognition from IUCN President and TNFD Co-Chair Razan Al Mubarak and IUCN Director General Grethel Aguilar and others that Indigenous leaders are not affected stakeholders to be consulted, but nature stewards whose on-the-ground efforts and traditional knowledge are essential assets that need to be respected and valued by society and business. International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) Co-Chair and TNFD Senior Adviser Lucy Mulenkei highlighted the progress being made, including the pioneering partnership between the TNFD and IIFB over a two-year period to develop the TNFD engagement guidance between Indigenous Peoples and business and finance. It recognises that a failure by business and finance to appropriately engage Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and affected stakeholders can create transition risks for companies and investors. 🔗 Download the guidance: https://ow.ly/Z3fL50X8nVK David Craig, Emily McKenzie, Dr. Anita F. Tzec, Nature Positive Initiative, Business for Nature, International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
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📰 Friday Sustainability Round-up 🌍 SDG 15 - Life on Land | From Loss to Regeneration This week, we close a meaningful chapter inspired by the life and legacy of Dr. Jane Goodall (1934 - 2025) - a voice that reminded the world that protecting nature is protecting ourselves. 📣 Weekly Highlight: Europe Launches Nature Credits to Fund Restoration The European Commission has introduced a groundbreaking Nature Credits initiative to fill the continent’s €37 billion annual biodiversity funding gap (Reuters, July 7 2025). The mechanism will reward landowners and local communities for verifiable restoration actions — from reforesting landscapes to rebuilding wetlands and pollinator corridors - creating a new market for nature-positive investment. This follows the EU Nature Restoration Regulation (in force since August 2024), which set legally binding targets to restore 20 % of degraded ecosystems by 2030 across Europe’s land and sea. 🌿 Why it Matters Healthy ecosystems underpin climate stability, food security, water quality, and mental well-being. By tying financial value to ecological regeneration, the EU is showing that sustainability can also mean economic resilience. ⚡ Start Your Mini-Revolution Plant native trees or join a rewilding project. Support nature-positive enterprises and restoration funds. Share stories of local ecosystems worth protecting. 💬 “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall 🤝 Join the Movement The Green Force empowers Impact Generators to build projects that heal land and community. 🎓 Learn how to build and communicate your nature project at the Impact Generator School this November. 👉 www.hubbers.io #FridayRoundUp #SDG15 #LifeOnLand #NatureRestoration #JaneGoodallLegacy #EU #NatureCredits #Biodiversity #GreenForce #ImpactGenerators #FromDreamsToImpact #HubbersImpact
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"Literature Reviews That Spark Curiosity" CAN CONSERVATION PAY OFF? EXPLORING PROFIT-DRIVEN BIODIVERSITY FINANCING Indonesia’s Law No. 32/2024 mandates sustainable financing for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation (KSDAHE). This mandate also contributes to the implementation of the global Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), as outlined in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF). Specifically, Target 19 of the KM-GBF emphasizes the need for countries to mobilize financial resources—including international, domestic, public, and private sources—and to maximize financial synergies and co-benefits that support biodiversity and address the climate crisis. Innovative financing schemes for biodiversity may include private sector investment, blended finance, payments for ecosystem services, green bonds, biodiversity offsets, and biodiversity credits. The mandate and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) present an opportunity to shift the funding paradigm for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation from a traditional cost center approach to a profit-based model. Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) has also promoted the concept of sustainable finance as part of a national standardization effort applicable across sectors. This standard emphasizes responsible, low-carbon economic growth, while integrating social, environmental, and governance (ESG) considerations into all development activities. "To truly protect biodiversity, we need to show that nature is not just priceless — it is valuable". By creating strategies that give biological resources meaningful commercial value, we unlock new opportunities to fund restoration and conservation. Imagine turning biodiversity into an asset that attracts investment, fuels green growth, and ensures ecosystems can thrive. The IFC’s Biodiversity Finance Reference Guide points the way, showing how green financing can transform biodiversity into a driver of both economic and ecological resilience. However, the initiation of profit-based financing models (profit centers) for biodiversity conservation must be carefully designed to mitigate risks such as overexploitation of natural biological resources, greenwashing practices, or other activities that could harm biodiversity. Experts emphasize that funding schemes should adopt a restorative approach — focusing on recovery efforts such as species protection, ecosystem, and habitat restoration. Fair benefit-sharing must be understood as giving back to nature, ensuring that business activities not only generate returns but also safeguard biodiversity. #LetsTalkIdeas #BiodiversityFinancing
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