All Biodiversity articles
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Introductory guide
An introduction to responsible investment: Biodiversity for asset owners
Introducing biodiversity to asset owners, focusing on drivers of biodiversity loss.
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Technical guide
Developing a biodiversity policy: A technical guide for asset owners and investment managers
How institutional investors can integrate biodiversity considerations into their responsible investment policies and investment processes
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Other
Investor initiatives
Various initiatives have been established to provide guidance and support for investor action on nature. Find below a list of key initiatives, networks and organisations in this space.
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Other
Guidance, standards and tools
Resources aimed at increasing investor action on nature have proliferated as the topic has grown in importance in recent years. On this page, we highlight a range, by no means exhaustive, of key resources in this area, produced by both the PRI and external authors.
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Introductory guide
Nature in responsible investments
Nature provides ecosystem services that benefit businesses and society. The investment value chain, and investors’ ability to optimise risk-adjusted returns to end-clients and beneficiaries, depends on and impacts nature.
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Policy report
PRI’s 2030 EU Policy Roadmap
Six key policy actions to fine-tune and improve the usability and coherence of the existing sustainable finance framework, build on it where necessary, and develop and strengthen the links with broader EU Green Deal policies.
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Event
Finance and the Global Biodiversity Framework: navigating the road to COP16
23 April 2024 | Online
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Blog post
Action on nature: Spring announces first batch of focus companies
Tim Steinweg, PRI Head of Stewardship - Nature, provides an update on Spring, the PRI’s stewardship initiative on nature.
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Webinar
Integrating climate and nature action: Unlocking the biodiversity-climate nexus
Aimed at banks, institutional investors and insurers at the beginning of their journey in addressing nature loss, this webinar explores how nature is connected to climate change and finance, along with key concepts and initiatives.
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Blog post
Does biodiversity risk affect asset prices?
We found that biodiversity and climate risks should be understood and priced separately
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Blog post
Can ‘financialisation’ save nature?
By Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Associate Professor at the Ivey Business School at Western University (Canada) and Founder and lead of the Ivey Sustainable Finance Lab, and Delphine Gibassier of Université de Nantes (France)
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Workshop summary
Integrating biodiversity considerations into infrastructure
Key discussion points from two investor roundtables on how to embed biodiversity-related risks and opportunities into the infrastructure investment process.
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Blog post
Financing biodiversity through private capital investments
By Caroline Flammer, Columbia University, NBER and ECGI
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Policy report
Reforming the multilateral financial architecture: why, how and the case for acting now
This briefing focuses on reforming the multilateral financial architecture. It presents a diagnosis of the current multilateral financial architecture and notes its incompatibility to meet present economic and sustainability challenges.
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Webinar
Biodiversity and fixed income: how to start
This webinar will explore where and how to start incorporating biodiversity considerations in the analysis of fixed income assets.
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PRI Web Page
Stepping Up on Biodiversity: What the Kunming‑Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework means for responsible investors
Investors should invest in innovative financial solutions to address biodiversity risks and help mobilise the required US$200bn per year by 2030, according to the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). This is one of three key recommendations of a new report launched today by UNEP FI, the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) ...
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Webinar
Stepping up on biodiversity: how are investors taking action since COP15?
In this webinar, we will explore the type of actions that leading investors are undertaking to contribute to the goal of the GBF to “halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030” and discuss the wider direction of travel for the financial sector to meet both climate and nature goals.
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Policy report
Investor Briefing: Independent Review of Net Zero
Chris Skidmore’s recently published Net Zero Review captures the transition to a net zero economy as a major pro-business and pro-investment opportunity. It offers policy recommendations centred around backing business, backing local action, delivering energy efficient homes, and using infrastructure to unlock net zero.
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Podcast
Spotlight on Climate & Environment: A conversation with Nigel Topping, UN High Level Climate Champion for UK
In this special episode of the PRI podcast, we take stock of progress in 2022 on the climate and environment