Integrating nature into business decision-making: progress, barriers and action in 2026
The white paper includes collated and anonymised results from the 2026 Nature practioner survey and aims to provide valuable insights to practitioners that are supporting their businesses or clients to integrate nature into business decision-making. Some of the key insights and questions asked include:
🌱What has changed since 2024? Has progress continued or slowed?
🌱What are the key drivers for action on nature?
🌱Which frameworks are organisations integrating nature into their organisations aligning with?
🌱What actions are sustainability practitioners currently taking on nature and how optimistic are respondents about the future use of nature data in their organisations?
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Integrating nature into business decision-making: Progress, barriers and action in 2026
Citing this report:
Little Blue Research & Biodiversify (2026). Integrating nature into business decision-making: Progress, barriers and action in 2026.
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Key Findings
Resilience is becoming the language of nature:
Adapting to climate change was the highest-ranked driver for corporate action on nature in 2026 with a ranking of 4.14/5, with adapting or preparing for changes in policy and legislation and avoiding reputational damage following.
Organisations can measure nature better than they can value it:
The leading barriers now sit at the point where nature evidence must translate into commercial choices.
Two new challenges lead the way in 2026:
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Building the business case (53%) is the most commonly selected challenge.
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Quantifying risks and opportunities (49%) follows closely.
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Supply-chain analysis (42%) remains a persistent technical barrier.
Sustainability practitioners still rely on expertise, learning and collaboration more than dedicated budget or team expansion to tackle nature integration.
72% of respondents engaged with specialists or helped upskill their team to overcome challenges while 66% joined a collaboration.
More organisations are integrating nature into business processes, but the proportion not planning to act has remained unchanged.
72% of organisations have at least started integrating nature into business processes, yet only 16%
report it is fully integrated, indicating many organisations still struggle to turn analysis into action and
value creation.