All biodiversity articles – Page 5
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Special ReportSpecial Report – Natural capital
Incorporating nature risk into financial analysis remains the - for now elusive - goal for investors, but this is hard given the lack of consensus on what information should be collected and how it should be presented. Such questions are the domain of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), the group founded in 2021. As well as striving for transparency and consistency in data disclosure, asset owners are also keen to deter inflated and exaggerated claims by asset managers on biodiversity impacts.
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Special ReportNatural capital: Industry turns its gaze on biodiversity
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures sets out to create a framework to help financial institutions and companies report their dependencies and impacts on nature
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Special ReportNatural capital: Asset owners start to engage
Two new global initiatives are under way to help investors focus on issues such as deforestation, while some managers have been on track for a while
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Special ReportNatural capital: New nature fund aims to halt loss of flora and fauna
Global Biodiversity Framework fund is targeting $200bn per year by 2030, but there is uncertainty about private sector participation
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NewsThreefold rise in asset managers holding board responsible for ESG
Alongside NNIP and PGGM, the investors that took the biggest tumble down the rankings since 2020’s survey were State Street Global Advisors, PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors
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NewsNatureAlpha partners with MSCI for nature, biodiversity tracking
The partnership will provide clients with enhanced comprehensive reporting in response to growing regulatory pressures, including SFDR and TNFD
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NewsNatureAlpha provides asset owners access to biodiversity data
Collaborating with the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) will allow for data to be integrated into biodiversity and nature metrics
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NewsPRI adds biodiversity to global climate policy forecast
FSP+N assesses the likelihood of ‘forceful responses’ by rulemakers seeking to address climate change and biodiversity loss out to 2030 and 2050
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Opinion PiecesCOP15: Biodiversity develops investment ecosystem
Biodiversity is fast catching up with climate change as a priority for investors and supervisors, and developments last year have set the stage for a productive 2023.
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NewsCOP15: Landmark deal agreed on biodiversity
New regulation and incentives expected that could “encourage companies to change their business models”
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Varma unveils biodiversity roadmap, prioritising issue alongside climate
Finland’s biggest pensions insurer follow’s Ilmarinen’s lead, says can’t sit back and wait for Montreal summit results
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Investors launch ‘CA100+ for biodiversity’ at COP15
AXA Investment Management, Storebrand and BNP Paribas Asset Management are among 11 founding partners of Nature Action 100
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Biodiversity frameworks good news for pension savings too, says Möger Pedersen
Danish pension funds calls COP15 in Vancouver ‘unique opportunity’ for world leaders to create foundation for protecting, rebuilding biodiversity
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Poor climate plans will trigger votes against board members in 2023, Railpen warns firms
Railpen said biodiversity and social implications of the climate transition were important considerations in transition plans
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Storebrand dumps four mining stocks in new nature protection drive
Biodiversity crisis requires collaboration with governments, companies and finance, plus better regulations and reporting, says asset management arm’s CEO
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Ilmarinen sets strategy to combat loss of biodiversity
Ilmarinen, the Finnish pension insurer, has set its goals for the next two years and a roadmap to combat loss of biodiversity and natural capital in the long term. The latest initiative mirror’s Ilmarinen’s roadmap to climate change which it launched a couple of years ago. “Biodiversity and nature loss ...
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Special ReportAdding to the biodiversity protection toolbox
Biodiversity is intricately linked with economic growth and development. Since the industrial revolution ecosystems have been under constant threat with the advent of large towns, cities and industrial complexes. The rate of deterioration has accelerated over time and we are now destroying natural capital at an unprecedented rate, which will have long-term consequences for economies, societies and the planet.
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Finance For Biodiversity launches Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub
While numerous governments have green bond programmes, Chile is the only country to have issued a sustainability-linked bond
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ATP weathers storm with ministry man at the helm
Martin Præstegaard takes over as CEO of Danish pensions giant just in time to deliver news of 36.4% investment loss
