New initiatives in nature reporting for companies

State of the environment: Filepic of a vast hill clearing near the Kedah/Perak border. Making nature reporting mandatory would ensure that businesses manage their environmental risks consistently.

IF nature could speak, it would ask us to slow down, observe carefully and think ahead. It would remind us that even if its reactions to human actions are not immediate, they are inevitable.

The effects of land use, biodiversity loss, water pollution and soil degradation often take years to fully surface. By the time we notice, the damage will be deeply entrenched and difficult to reverse.