Archive

• Biodiversity accounting initiative outlines initial guidelines

  25 September 2020

  A report endorsed by banks and asset managers has laid out a common approach to measuring positive impact on biodiversity.

• Central banks should step up to face environmental breakdown risk in finance

  21 August 2020

  Market-fixing approaches such as the nascent Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) are "unsuitable" for managing the risks posed by environmental breakdown, an academic paper has argued, instead proposing that central banks and financial regulators should introduce strict industry-wide exclusionary criteria.

• Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures working group announced

  21 July 2020

  Ten financial firms have joined a working group to develop a reporting framework for the impact of the financial sector on biodiversity and ecosystems to complement the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).