Swiss Re Group, a provider of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, has developed a Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (BES) index to enable businesses and governments to account for biodiversity and ecosystem issues into their decision-making.
A recent report from the World Bank demonstrates that public funds are insufficient to reverse biodiversity loss and argues that the financial sector can play a critical role in addressing the global biodiversity crisis.
The Paulson Institute, The Nature Conservancy, and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University have set out to estimate the global biodiversity financing gap – the difference between how much is spent and how much financing is needed in the next ten year to protect the most important biodiversity and the services it provides.
Commonland has published a report outlining a new methodology for calculating the monetary value of landscape restoration. Large-scale, long-term landscape restoration is one of the most promising solutions for ecosystem management.
A new journal article in Environmental Science and Technology from researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre presents the state of the art and emerging challenges of the biodiversity assessment of value chains.
In a new discussion paper titled “Investor action on biodiversity”, PRI outlines emerging approaches for integrating biodiversity into investment policies and strategies.
A new study by the European Parliament analyses biodiversity as a human right and examines its implications for the EU’s external action.
The Dasgupta Review explores the economic benefits of biodiversity and the economic costs of biodiversity loss.
The CISL's Biodiversity Impact Metric allows businesses to estimate the potential biodiversity impacts of different sourcing locations and different commodities.
Capitals Coalition has published a new report titled “Improving nature’s visibility in financial accounting” describing four methods for integrating natural and other types of capitals (e.g. human, social, financial) into financial accounting.
In light of the growing interest in natural capital accounting (NCA) and a clear demand for methodologies for including biodiversity into NCA, a wide range of initiatives have been launched to develop pragmatic biodiversity metrics for businesses and financial institutions. The focus of this report is on identifying common ground amongst biodiversity measurement approaches with the final objective to support businesses and FI in selecting an approach that best fits their specific business context.
In a recent essay Climate Solutions: Working with nature, the European Investment Bank (EIB) reflects on the experience from their climate and biodiversity instruments, including the NSFF. The essay discusses the opportunities biodiversity provides to buy time for the innovation and economic transformation needed to tackle climate change. It highlights climate solutions on biodiversity for policy-makers, financial institutions, and citizens. The essay is part of the EIB series Climate Solutions.
The ThinkNature platform has released a new Nature-based Solutions Handbook. The handbook’s objective is to gather and promote state-of-the-art knowledge regarding nature-based solutions (NbS) and to provide a comprehensive guide to all relevant actors.
Experts call for new financial incentives for a transformative model of agriculture that is friendly to biodiversity and provides nutrition throughout the year for agricultural communities and people who buy their products.
Master students at the Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics in Sweden have published a study investigating what drives companies to voluntarily chose to biodiversity net gain (BNG) strategies in the absence of legislation that requires them to do so. The study analyses business documentation and interviews with business leaders from the seven companies in Sweden most proactive in the BNG field, and it identifies the business case for biodiversity.
A new study in Environmental Science & Policy by researchers at the Faculty of Forestry at University of British Columbia finds that biodiversity thrives on lands managed or co-managed by Indigenous communities.
On 3 September 2019, The European Commission published two new guidance documents on working with nature to resolve urgent societal challenges. Nature is key to limiting the impact of climate change and ensure long-term sustainable economic development.
The eco.business Fund, a joint initiative of investors’ intent on supporting the promotion of business and consumption practices that conserve nature and foster biodiversity, presents its first Impact Report, “Investing in Impact on the Ground”.
