Peter van Dijk, Adjunct Professor in Brock University’s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in Corporate Knights about the steps Canada must take if it wants to foster a nature-positive economy.

He writes:

“Canada is entering a defining phase of nation-building.

Driven by aggressive provincial housing mandates, multibillion-dollar federal investments in clean energy and electric vehicle supply chains, and the push to unlock critical minerals in regions like Ontario’s Ring of Fire, we are accelerating infrastructure and resource development at a pace not seen in decades. At the same time, Canada has committed not only to protect nature, but to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and put nature on a path to full recovery by 2050.

These goals are typically framed as being in conflict. But the real problem is not the tension between development and nature. It is that we have never built a system that allows them to work together.”

Continue reading the full article on the Corporate Knights website.