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  • Sectors most damaging to biodiversity revealed in pilot for NA100

    14 April 2023

    The food, beverage and tobacco sector has the highest potential negative impact on biodiversity out of those analysed, followed by the materials sector, the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation (FfB) has said.

  • People moves 7 April: Sustainable Fitch, Zurich, IIGCC, Symbiotics ... and more

    07 April 2023

  • PBAF seeks to nip biodiversity materiality struggles in the bud

    17 March 2023

    The Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF) is prioritising helping financial institutions overcome their struggles to assess biodiversity materiality, the organisation has said.

  • CDC Biodiversité to add three sectors to biodiversity footprint tool

    14 March 2023

    CDC is planning to expand its biodiversity footprinting tool to enable simplified assessments of three sectors in more detail, as asset managers trial the methodology with private portfolio companies.

  • US launches natural capital accounting strategy

    20 January 2023

    A strategy for integrating natural capital accounting into the US economic statistical system has been published by the US government, partly in response to demands from private finance.

  • NatureAlpha collaborates with IBAT

    20 January 2023

    Data provider NatureAlpha has collaborated with the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) to provide data to help investors assess biodiversity risks of portfolio companies.

  • Biodiversity credits - the next big environmental market?

    05 December 2022

    Biodiversity credits are potentially a powerful financial tool for boosting nature, but could be as controversial as carbon credits, Thomas Cox writes

  • PBAF: 'High chance' of mandatory biodiversity reporting following COP15

    29 November 2022

    The reporting of nature impacts by financial institutions is likely to become mandatory at biodiversity conference COP15, the chair of Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF) predicted.

  • Belgium to launch impact investing institute

    25 November 2022

    A group of investors will launch a Belgian initiative to mobilise private capital towards positive social and environmental impact, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • Proterra Asia invests in bioenergy firm

    23 November 2022