Our priority is to engage the business sectors in which change
is most important and urgent, due to the scale of their negative
impacts on the environment and social equity. These businesses
are likely to fall into one of the following four broad
categories. Large footprint Industries Mining oil and gas,
construction, automobile and energy – tend to have large impacts
on biodiversity through their operations and processes.
Therefore, these sectors represent the main target for IUCN to
approach and to help transform their biodiversity risk into
conservation opportunities. This includes productive sectors
that use and entirely depend on products and services from
nature. For example agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food
retailing aquaculture, can potentially have negative impacts on
biodiversity. Given the vast amounts of capital that financial
services, banks, and insurance companies control, the leveraging
potential for projects that conserve rather than impact on
biodiversity is enormous. Developing Gree