Businesses are realising the huge cost of nature loss More than half of global GDP is generated by work dependent on natural systems. As businesses learn to work with nature, they are realising how much they rely upon it. Luis Ascui / Getty images
A dirt track runs through burnt out forest in the Kinglake region on 12 February 2009 in Melbourne, Australia The river Ingol in Norfolk, in the east of England, provides a haven for breeding birds, amphibians, bats and water voles. But the waterway also contains a natural treatment plant for Anglian Water. Each day, the company pumps millions of litres of water into the wetland, where it is filtered and cleaned by the ecosystem before it is returned to the river.