PBAF and Impact Institute collaborate on biodiversity toolbox

🌍🌿 Boosting Biodiversity Finance for a Sustainable Future 🌿🌍 Awareness of biodiversity’s crucial role in sustainable development is growing among finance leaders. Yet, we haven't seen a major increase in finance flows towards biodiversity. Effective governance and partnerships between finance and environmental sectors are essential to scale and sustain biodiversity financing. 🌱💡 These partnerships need to address policy incoherence and market failures driving biodiversity loss. This includes greening harmful subsidies and optimizing existing resources. 🌳💼 Financing biodiversity is a shared responsibility of governments, the private sector, and all of us. Innovative market-driven solutions are emerging, with public, private, and civil society actors testing new investment models. The conservation finance market is young but growing. 📈🦋 To scale biodiversity finance, we need solid data on finance needs, past expenditures, and the value of natural capital. Economics and finance build the business case for effective solutions. 📊🌺 The BIOFIN - Biodiversity Finance Initiative supports national, regional, and global platforms to help countries reduce their finance gaps, ensuring biodiversity targets are met. BIOFIN focuses on better resource use, reallocating funds from harmful to helpful areas, and acting now to lessen future investment needs. 🌍💚 📝 Visit CYNK🌍https://lnkd.in/d_d8nQKc #BiodiversityFinance #Sustainability #BIOFIN #GreenFinance #Biodiversity #Conservation #SustainableDevelopment #EcoFriendly #ClimateFinance Penny Stock, Erica Fleet, Edson Hlatshwayo, Paxina Toe, Leticia Carvalho, Gabriel Pérez Salguera, Laura Iglesias, Ahmed Yassin, Neal Spackman, Sophie Gilbert, Tom Popple, Rhea Kochar, Sofya Ignatenko, Katy Baker, Josh Brann, Manesh Lacoul, Karina Whalley, Declan Conway, Rhett Ayers Butler, Adrian Dellecker, Mikkel Larsen, Ben W. Cherry, Daniel Strechay, Ariadne Gorring, Dennis Fritsch, PhD, Falemara Babajide, Durga Prasad Meena, Toral Shah, Ruth Tiffer Sotomayor, Elisson M. Wright, Olha Krushelnytska, CFA 🇺🇦, Katherine Foster, Genevieve Leveille, Zenobia Godschalk, Zoe Quiroz Cullen, Christiaan Pauw, Minna Epps, Suraj A. Vanniarachchy.

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) which includes protecting 30% of land and seas by 2030, has set the stage for action on nature and biodiversity. - However, there is a USD 700 billion gap in annual biodiversity funding between now and 2030. - Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) released the report, "Investing in Nature as Infrastructure The Opportunity" - This report presents high level opportunities for investing in nature as infrastructure (NAI) by using innovative financing instruments. - It is intended as a high-level guide to set the direction and build momentum—particularly among MDBs—of investments in NAI. - It shows that by demonstrating the financial feasibility, impact and scalability of investing in NAI through proof-of-concept projects, MDBs, can work to mobilize private capital towards green infrastructure. Full report attached.

Biodiversity-related projects have seen an increase in international funding in recent years, but remain a low priority compared to other development initiatives, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The report found total official development finance (ODF) for such projects grew from $7.3 billion in 2015 to $15.4 billion in 2022. That’s still less than what the nearly 200 governments that signed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) in December 2022 agreed would be needed to halt biodiversity loss: at least $20 billion annually by 2025, and $30 billion annually by 2030. Read the full article by Shreya Dasgupta https://lnkd.in/g-_vuzqX

As a corporate executive, you might recognize the increasing importance of biodiversity. How are your peers, banks and investors responding to the alarming rate of biodiversity loss? On Thursday 20 June (from 15:00 to 15:45 CET) BNP Paribas The Netherlands hosts a webinar on corporate biodiversity strategies and the expectations from investors. In this 45 min webinar, thematic experts Freek van Til (Project Manager at De Vereniging van Beleggers voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling (VBDO) and Camille Maclet (Global Biodiversity Lead BNP Paribas Group) will offer their views on: 🌿 How corporates can map and manage the risk of biodiversity loss 🌿 How to translate biodiversity strategy into actions 🌿 New regulations that can accelerate the integration of biodiversity into corporate strategy and disclosure 🌿 Expectations and responses from financiers such as banks and institutional investors Mark your calendar and sign up for 45 mins of biodiversity best practices and insights from topic experts. This session is English spoken and free of charge. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/esy8zdmf

DYK: That there is a biodiversity index for countries, launched by Ninety One. This new index will help investors decide which countries are doing better than others. Moreover, it can also be used for sovereign engagements, a new engagement area that we are actively exploring. Read Peter Eerdmans post here. #newcolumn #DYK

Together with The Biodiversity Consultancy, WWF Switzerland has developed a robust framework for assessing the potential impacts of investments or project interventions on biodiversity. On 23 April, we will show how different impacts of investment decisions on the five drivers of biodiversity loss can be directly compared. 

Biodiversity Masterplan:Negotiations on Crucial Science, Technology for Implementation Underway https://drumup.io/s/2Oceaq #biodiversityplan #biodiversity #implementation @ipsnews @IPSNewsUNBureau

Our Impact Report on biodiversity is out today, and features an interview with our CEO Dirk Meuleman, exploring biodiversity, and why it needs to be the core focus with respect to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the next decade. 🌊 “Now it is up to investors and asset managers to push for more investment opportunities to seek to make a positive impact. While there are currently opportunities in the listed sector, I strongly believe that it’s possible to invest to protect biodiversity while earning a financial return in private markets, particularly private equity is the way to do this." The full report can be downloaded here ➡️ https://hubs.li/Q02v0vBH0 Key takeaways include: ⭐234% growth in funds focusing on biodiversity since 2015 ⭐21% of all impact funds in database open for biodiversity investing ⭐40.4% of impact funds in database have a biodiversity focus ⭐75% of all North American real asset funds focus on timber/forestry ⭐SDG2 is the investor preference for biodiversity-focused funds #sustainableinvesting #impactinvesting #biodiversity

Important step forward for systemic change in the finance sector 🌿   We are thrilled to support Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF) and Impact Institute aimed at revolutionising biodiversity knowledge for Financial Institutions (FIs).   In today’s world, integrating biodiversity considerations into risk assessments and decision-making processes is crucial. Randall Krantz Miriam van Gool Global Commons Alliance Science Based Targets Network

In this blog article, we breakdown the global trends and initiatives of 2024 that businesses taking action on #biodiversity, #conservation and #restoration must be aware of. Juliana Rademaker | Santiago Martinez Vivero