**Q&A: New tool supports private industry in minimizing impacts to nature's services**

Companies and investors are increasingly considering, and measuring, the impacts of their business activities on nature, or "natural capital" (the world's stock of natural assets like air, water, soil, and biodiversity). This includes how impacts to ecosystem services, the benefits nature provides to people, create risks—and opportunities—for their businesses and clients.

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-qa-tool-private-industry-minimizing.html