Intertek is proud to support the ‘Get Nature Positive’ campaign, a voluntary coalition of businesses all committed to restoring the natural world.

Founded by The Council for Sustainable Business (CSB) a group of business leaders appointed by DEFRA who are committed to developing successful businesses and enhancing nature, Get Nature Positive seeks to engage a broad cross-section of business and other organisational leaders including the Global Commons Alliance, UNFCCC, Science-based Targets Network (SBTN), Business for Nature, to build momentum on nature and biodiversity.

For millennia, humans have relied on the ability of ecosystems to provide services like protection from floods, regulation of diseases and pests, sequestration and regulation of carbon, maintenance of habitats, and provision of food and water. In recent years, scientists have observed the decline in intact ecosystem extent and condition, as well as increasing rates of species extinctions throughout the regions of the world. These indications of the degradation and loss of nature entail a direct risk for human well-being and global economic activities. The loss of nature poses a direct threat to economic activities. Research by PwC found that industries that are highly dependent on nature (like agriculture, fishing, mining, and tourism) generate 15% of global GDP (US$13 trillion), while moderately dependent industries generate 37% (US$31 trillion).

As part of our commitment to setting science-based targets, Intertek has also joined the UN Race to Zero campaign — a global effort from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that calls for a resilient, zero-carbon recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and is aligned with our own ambitious agenda to Build Back Ever Better.