Nature and People Positive Ports programme

In 2025, Lloyd's Register Foundation announced a three-year partnership with the World Economic Forum on accelerating the transition to nature and people positive ports. The partnership aims to secure commitments from major global ports and share verifiable strategies that benefit people and nature. In parallel, efforts will raise awareness about building new ports in emerging markets, to ensure new investments incorporate nature-positive criteria.

The programme will focus on key strategies to accelerate the sector’s transition to nature-positive while adopting practices that enhance the safety of people and goods, improving working conditions and ensuring social prosperity. Additional focus will be placed on methods to protect nature in coastal and marine ecosystems near ports.

The partnership follows the World Economic Forum’s report on Nature-Positive: The Role of Ports, co-authored by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, which found that prioritising nature-positive strategies - including decarbonisation - could unlock over $54 billion in cost savings and revenue by 2030 for businesses operating across the port sector’s value chain.

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