Nature on Board
Tools for Boards Ready to Lead with Nature in Governance
It's time for the voice of Nature to join the boardroom.
All economies rely on Earth's living systems. Yet most corporate boards still govern as if they don't, lacking practical frameworks for including Nature in oversight and strategy. Nature on Board closes that gap.
on Nature World Economic Forum
extinction IPBES
Nature dependencies CDP
expertise World Benchmarking Alliance
This is the world your next board decision shapes.
Three Dimensions
Three pathways to Nature-conscious governance.
From ecological awareness to legal personhood, this framework is a companion for every stage of your journey toward Nature-conscious governance.
Spanning four dimensions of practice:
Leadership, Oversight, Implementation & Representation
What Nature-conscious
governance looks like
"I am the river that feeds your city. I am the soil beneath your supply chain. When you make decisions without me, you make decisions against yourself."
Voice of the Rainforest
Every board has a choice. Continue governing as if nature is external to business, a cost to be minimised. Or begin the more rewarding work of governing with nature as a partner, teacher, and co-creator of lasting value. The organisations that thrive in the coming decades will not be those that extracted most efficiently, but those that learned to collaborate with the living systems they depend on.
Your Starting Point
Built for the people shaping governance,
across four dimensions of practice.
Board Directors
Lead your organisation's Nature-conscious governance journey with practical frameworks and board-level implementation guidance.Module 1: On-Boarding & Governing
Explore tools 02 OversightRisk & Audit Committees
Integrate nature's risk and resilience strategies into your enterprise risk management models and oversight.Module 2: De-Risking
Explore tools 03 RepresentationNature Proxies
Represent nature's interests in the board room with charter templates, role guides, and species persona tools.Module 1: On-Boarding & Governing
Explore tools 04 ImplementationFinance & Investment
Nature on the balance sheet tools, dividend policies and nature conscious financing mechanisms.Module 3: Restoring Economies
Explore toolsA story of Nature and governance
A scorpion, unable to swim, asks a frog to carry it across a river on its back. The frog hesitates. "If I sting you, we both drown," the scorpion reasons. The frog agrees. Midstream, the scorpion stings. As they sink, the frog asks why. "Because it is my nature."
Too many boards govern like the scorpion. Aware of the risks, fluent in the logic, yet extracting from the living systems they depend on. Not out of malice, but habit.
The organisations that thrive will be those that choose differently: partnering with Nature as teacher, guide, and co-creator of lasting value.
The Toolkit
Four modules. One living governance framework.
On-Boarding & Governing
How to bring nature into governance structures. Tools for establishing nature's formal role, defining responsibilities, and creating governance architecture for nature-inclusive boards.
Begin Module 1De-Risking
How to identify and manage nature-related risks while learning from nature's own risk strategies.
Restoring Economies
How to align economics and strategy with nature's principles for rethinking growth and value.
Embodying Nature
How to change culture, language, and daily practice of governance through ecological practice.