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For the future of biodiversity conservation, it is essential to make it financially attractive to invest in nature conservation and to develop pro-biodiversity businesses that sustainably utilize ecosystem services. This would yield huge benefits for the preservation of valuable areas and landscapes and would also yield economic benefits; a win-win situation.
The financial sector can play a significant role in incentivizing companies to value and account for biodiversity and ecosystem services within the traditional frameworks of business risk. Opportunities associated with carbon and water markets are already a focus of attention for mainstream finance. Biodiversity and landscape protection opportunities are now gaining interest from commercial financial institutions – in particular, the opportunities to invest in pro-biodiversity businesses, especially those related to payments for ecosystem services).