Tag: Natural Capital
With International Biodiversity Day falling this weekend, RI looks at emerging trends in the space With International Biodiversity Day falling this weekend, RI looks at emerging trends in the space With International Biodiversity Day falling this weekend, RI looks at emerging trends in the space
May 21st, 2021
Biodiversity has gone from playing second - and sometimes even third and fourth - fiddle to climate change, to being a central discussion topic for investors over the last 18 months.
And while thinking on the issue is still nascent, it’s catching up fast when it comes to acronyms, announcements and initiatives. Just this week 18 additional financial institutions signed the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge; Karner Blue Capital became the first US member of an investor group dedicated to data and biodiversity; BNP Paribas Asset Management released its biodiversity roadmap; the Principles for Responsible Investment launched a practitioners group to tackle deforestation; and the World Benchmarking Alliance told RI that it is working on developing a benchmark tool covering companies with the biggest impact on nature.
Had the global pandemic not continued to wreak havoc in 2021, today would have marked the halfway point of COP15 - the global bi…