All Nature articles
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Case studyAGBI: Promoting regenerative agriculture in Brazil through stakeholder engagement
Using regenerative agriculture to turn degraded pastureland into productive cropland.
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Case studyECBF: Investing in the bioeconomy
Not all ‘bio’ is necessarily ‘sustainable’, and not all investments in the industry represent a form of responsible capital. It is critical to distinguish, measure and monitor an innovation’s true contribution to sustainability, as well as assess the ESG-related risk and opportunity.
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EventLatin American and the Caribbean Finance and Biodiversity Day at CBD COP16
26 October 2024 | Cali
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Case studyGresham House: Habitat banks as a new nature-related infrastructure investment opportunity
Natural capital investments create intentional and additional improvements in biodiversity, significantly enhancing flora and fauna, nutrient levels, flood defences and other ecosystem services.
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Case studyStafford Capital: Minimising biodiversity risk through sustainable forestry
Forests are biologically diverse ecosystems that offer a wide variety of habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms
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Case studyGroupe Caisse des Dépôts: Developing a biodiversity policy
Developing and implementing a comprehensive biodiversity policy across asset classes.
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Case studyGreen Century: Taking action on nature via engagement
Using engagement to address biodiversity-related risks in the food and agriculture industry.
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Case studyAXA IM Alts: Financing natural capital restoration and protection
Addressing biodiversity through reforestation in the Amazon.
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Introductory guideAn introduction to responsible investment: Biodiversity for asset owners
Introducing biodiversity to asset owners, focusing on drivers of biodiversity loss.
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OtherInvestor 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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OtherGuidance, 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 guideNature 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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WebinarApply to join Spring: PRI’s new stewardship initiative for nature
This session, co-organised by the PRI and ICGN, outlines practical resources and examples to help investors ensure that their managers’ approach to stewardship and sustainability are aligned with their own objectives.
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Blog postAction 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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WebinarIntegrating 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 postDoes biodiversity risk affect asset prices?
We found that biodiversity and climate risks should be understood and priced separately
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Blog postDo financial incentives drive the voting behaviour of ESG funds?
By Tao Li, The University of Florida; Lakshmi Naaraayanan, London Business School; Kunal Sachdeva, Rice University
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Blog postCan ‘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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Blog postFinancing biodiversity through private capital investments
By Caroline Flammer, Columbia University, NBER and ECGI
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WebinarBiodiversity 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.
