➡️Most top companies have climate targets,yet only 12% have one for biodiversity, despite the global economy’s dependency on nature. This report summarizes the mining sector’s key impacts and dependencies on nature and sets out priority actions that corporate leaders can take to transform their businesses. These include: ➡️Transform operations across the mine life cycle: Avoid, then reduce, the land, pollution and emissions impacts of mining operations and restore across the mine life cycle in accordance with the mitigation hierarchy. ➡️Improve water stewardship: Avoid, then reduce, water abstraction, use and pollution in mining operations, and improve water stewardship across landscapes. ➡️Expand circularity and source responsibly: Expand circularity across the value chain, embrace standards and transparency, engage with suppliers and source responsibly, and collaborate with and support customers. ➡️Restore and regenerate landscapes: Support nature conservation and restoration with local communities across and beyond their own value chains and invest in innovative nature financing mechanisms. ➡️Transform policy systems and collaborate across sectors: Call on governments to strengthen nature-related policy and support cross-sector and cross-industry collaboration. These priority actions could unlock more than $430 billion in annual business opportunities by 2030 for companies operating across the sector’s value chain, presenting a significant opportunity for the mining and metals sector in the new nature- positive economy. Insight Report January 2025 (Word Economic Forum)