A new report by WWF highlights the urgency for central banks and financial supervisors to act on the risk of unprecedented nature loss. With biodiversity loss not only compounding climate-related risks but a global crisis in its own right, the new report “Nature‘s next stewards:...
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are booming, synthetic ETFs are re-surfacing and semi-transparent ETFs have recently emerged – but their structures hide entrenched deforestation risk from investors. Planet Tracker identifies the key decision makers for each instrument in the growing ETF universe and calls for specific...
Climate change and environmental degradation are sources of structural change that affect economic activity and, in turn, the financial system. With the aim of offering an overview on the degree of knowledge that Spanish organizations have about climate-related and nature-related financial risks, members of Technical...
Global Canopy, the Stockholm Environment Institute and Neural Alpha have launched an online tool that draws on more than 30 disparate data sources to bring unprecedented transparency to hundreds of billions of dollars that are directly or indirectly financing tropical deforestation each year....
During its latest Council, members of the European Council recognise the importance of making domestic and international financial flows, including in public procurement, consistent with the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The document also states that the EU and its member states will lead and step...
The European Parliament has just given the green light to the criteria that will be taken into account to determine which economic activities are environmentally and socially sustainable within the European Union. This means that it has approved the so-called "taxonomy", which seeks to avoid...
