Recent Trends in Biodiversity Conservation

Abstract

With regard to biodiversity conservation, the new global goal the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework（GBF）and the National Biodiversity Strategy（2023‒2030）call for an integrated response to the twin crises of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss and the realization of nature-positive (nature restoration). In order to achieve the fundamental social reforms required for this purpose, efforts to incorporate biodiversity conservation measures into social and economic activities have begun.

In this paper, we will first introduce recent trends in biodiversity conservation, including international movements, public-private movements in Japan, and international framework‒building movements at the private level, and second, the progress of efforts in the paper industry to date.

Finally, I would like to reorganize these trends from the perspective of integrating them with climate change countermeasures and incorporating them into socio‒economic systems, and introduce my views on future measures at the corporate level, such as the importance of establishing a system to reconsider all business activities from the perspective of biodiversity conservation, and specific initiatives for the time being.