Biodiversity

The latest developments in sustainable finance: NA100 announces 10 new participants; Investors tell UK debt management office to build out yield curve for green gilts.

Ocean ecosystems have traditionally been a blind spot in biodiversity data. RI looks at the options for investors trying to fill in the blanks.

Some requirements outlined in draft revision reclassified as recommendations, new disclosures added on offsets.

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) also explores potential for biodiversity impact index and protection being incorporated into green bond standard.

Firms absent from last week's early adopters list say they are working out when and how they can make the move.

RI asked participants of the engagement initiative for details of the name, number, geography and sector of the companies they have been assigned.

More than 100 financial institutions have signed up, with Japanese groups taking the top spot with 25 adopters.

RI also reveals initial insights from its analysis of the number, type and names of firms that investors have been assigned.

Several investors have called for biodiversity standards to ‘go further’ than the TNFD, while others think the current market framework is robust enough.

Project will aim to develop a biodiversity risk and alignment assessment tool for the Swiss financial sector.