The Convention on Biological Diversity strategic goals direct the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity from global to local scales. Yet business’ role in meeting the strategic goals and being accountable for their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity are still not fully and coherently outlined. We demonstrate how business actions can contribute to the strategic goals using 10 publicly available case studies, covering businesses of various sizes, from multiple sectors, operating in different contexts. The case studies show some businesses already contribute to meeting biodiversity goals, often without realizing. We consider the drivers of business engagement with biodiversity; problems in interpreting the scale of impacts through corporate reporting; the implications for changing the way businesses engage with biodiversity goals; and how businesses could contribute more under the post‐2020 framework for biodiversity. We call for increased business accountability for nature and that all in conservation—policymakers, practitioners, researchers, communities—do more to connect businesses with the strategic goals. Clearer business roles and responsibilities within international targets form a critical step toward the fundamental systems‐level change required to reverse biodiversity loss.

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生物多样性意味着商业：为私营部门重新制定全球生物多样性目标

《生物多样性公约》的战略目标将生物多样性的保护和可持续利用从全球范围扩展到地方范围。然而，企业在实现战略目标以及对其影响和对生物多样性的依赖性承担责任方面的作用仍未得到完整和连贯的概述。我们使用10个可公开获得的案例研究来演示商业行为如何为战略目标做出贡献，这些案例研究涵盖了来自不同领域，在不同背景下运作的各种规模的企业。案例研究表明，一些企业已经为实现生物多样性目标做出了贡献，但往往没有意识到。我们考虑与生物多样性开展业务的驱动力；在通过公司报告来解释影响的规模方面存在问题；对改变企业实现生物多样性目标的方式的影响；以及企业如何在2020年后的生物多样性框架下做出更多贡献。我们呼吁增强企业对自然的责任感，保护自然界中的所有人（政策制定者，从业人员，研究人员，社区）都应做更多工作，以使企业与战略目标联系起来。国际目标中更清晰的业务角色和职责是朝着扭转生物多样性丧失所需的基本系统级变化迈出的关键一步。