The Study Group on Biodiversity and Financial Stability established by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) and the Network for Sustainable Financial Policy Insights, Research, and Exchange (INSPIRE) has published a vision paper entitled “Biodiversity and financial stability: exploring the case for action.”...
In December 2020, 50 of the world’s leading biodiversity and climate experts, selected by a 12-person Scientific Steering Committee assembled by IPBES and IPCC, participated in a four-day virtual workshop to examine the synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation....
The new Financial Sector Guide for the Convention on Biological Diversity aims to mobilise financial institutions to ensure a nature positive world, by fostering better understanding of nature’s importance for the financial sector, providing insight on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) process. Nature is...
Businesses with agricultural supply chains depend on and impact biodiversity, both directly through their activities and indirectly through their supply chains, and there is growing momentum to better assess and manage these relationships with nature. However, the business community facies challenges in measuring their biodiversity...
Governments have a significant role in creating an enabling environment for a capitals approach and safeguarding biodiversity. By facilitating a dialogue, governments from around the world can share best practices strengthen their enabling role. This paper explains what natural capital is, why it is relevant...
The signatories of the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge, together with the Finance@Biodiversity Community of the European Commission (B @ B), have created a Guide on biodiversity measurement for financial institutions. The Guide provides a starting point for financial institutions that are interested in measuring biodiversity....
These guidelines offer an approach for developing a corporate-level biodiversity strategic plan, including measurable goals and objectives and a set of core linked indicators, that will allow companies to measure their biodiversity performance across their operations. The guidelines can be used by any company...
The Biological Diversity Protocol (BD Protocol) is the first tool that provides a standardised approach to help any organisation account for and consolidate all its net impacts on ecosystems and species. It allows all companies, big or small, and no matter what industry, to establish...
The EU B@B Platform has launched the third report of the Assessment of Biodiversity Measurement Approaches for Businesses and Financial Institutions series. This 2021 report builds on the foundations established by the first two volumes (2018, 2019) and takes the next crucial step in the...
Achieving a climate-resilient future requires rapid, sustained and far-reaching transformations in energy, land-use, infrastructure and industrial systems. Large-scale expansion of renewable energy can play a critical role in meeting the world’s growing energy demands and in the fight against climate change. However, even ‘clean’ energy...
