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Nature positive rhetoric, risk and reality: sector-scale political ecology at CBD COP16

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We analyse political manoeuvres by global tourism industry associations, and responses by conservation organisations, that create new risks to biodiversity. There are a few tourism enterprises that make net positive contributions to conservation. Nature positive terms, however, are being used for marketing greenwash, to delay and avoid environmental fees and regulations, and to lobby for land grabs in public protected areas.

Source: npj Biodiversity

DOI: 10.1038/s44185-025-00087-5