As members of the SBTN Corporate Engagement Program, we acknowledge that all life on Earth, including human life, depends on clean air and water, rich biodiversity, healthy soils and oceans, and a stable climate. These are the Global Commons: the shared resources that ensure a habitable planet where we can all thrive.

The impacts from human activities are the primary drivers of environmental change on our planet and that we – as part of the public and private sectors that contribute to our economic system – can influence this trajectory of change in positive ways. Thus, Ecoacsa is collaborating with this initiative to give interested companies the opportunity to address these challenges and contribute to a global economy in which companies and cities operate within environmental boundaries on a socially equitable basis, and we see science-based targets (SBTs) as a key enabler of this vision.

There is a need of methods and guidance on science-based target setting which are grounded in an understanding of the safe limits of the planet. Built on the Science Based Targets initiative for climate – for freshwater, land, ocean and biodiversity (SBT), the initiative SBTN precisely emerges to fill this gap.

To do so, it develops methods, guidance and tools for setting a science-based target for nature to support organizations to achieve this common vision. These challenges are bigger than any one NGO, company, financial institution, sector, city or coalition can tackle alone – these targets and guidance will advance alignment across social, environmental and corporate agendas and advance multi-stakeholder collaboration toward globally shared goals. For each of us, SBTs can ensure we are doing our part to bring about a healthy future.