EU Business & Biodiversity platform

The momentum behind biodiversity is growing among financial institutions, and so is the number of communities, networks and initiatives dedicated to this topic. This overview of biodiversity-related initiatives for financial institutions is a resource meant to help financial institutions understand the latest biodiversity-related initiatives out there - who is doing what, where and when. Launched in April 2021 by the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation, UNEP FI, the PRI, and the Business & Biodiversity Platform, this report is updated yearly. The most recent update covers nineteen initiatives, outlining activities planned for the 2023-2024 period. It provides an overview of the nineteen initiatives, the topics they address and their level of collaboration for each topic. In addition, a fact sheet for each initiative is also included.

In the last few years, more and more financial institutions have started engaging with companies on biodiversity. By providing yearly updates, the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation and the EU Business & Biodiversity Platform want to help financial institutions to navigate the ever-changing landscape of collaborative biodiversity engagements. This overview points financial institutions to ongoing engagements that they can join, as well as directs them to information generated by past collaborative engagements. In this third update, nine new biodiversity-related collaborative engagements have been added.

How to unlock nature-positive transformative change in the built environment? In 2023, the EUB&B Platform engaged with representatives from the built environment, investors, and policy makers to help identify transformative actions that can be taken at different levels to progress towards nature-positive models. The results of that engagement work are presented in a new publication, highlighting current drivers of change (technological, financial, political, etc.) to facilitate nature-positive business trajectories. The report looks, in particular, at the role of finance and policy as enablers of change and identifies next steps to scale up action.