Businesses that try to come clean about their impact on nature can end up concealing more than they reveal

By Erwei (David) Xiang, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Accounting, Newcastle University
Marwa Elnahass, Professor in Accounting and Finance, Newcastle University

Humans have overfished the ocean, cleared forests, polluted water and created a climate crisis by burning fossil fuels. These actions are affecting biodiversity around the world, from remote islands to our own backyards.

Biodiversity can refer to all the different kinds of life that can be found in just one area of the world, or the teeming variety of animals, plants, fungi and microorganisms like bacteria that comprise all life on Earth. In either case, each species collaborates in ecosystems to…

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