{"id":608,"date":"2021-01-28T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natureoffinance.org\/?page_id=608"},"modified":"2021-02-03T15:55:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:55:59","slug":"changing-the-nature-of-finance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/natureoffinance.org\/?page_id=608","title":{"rendered":"Changing The Nature Of Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Changing the nature of finance<\/span><\/h3>


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This could be a year of positive change, for ourselves, for our planet, and for the wonderful creatures which whom we share it.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
(Sir David Attenborough \u2013 British biologist and filmmaker). <\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/h3>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]
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Through their financing activities and investments financial institutions have an important role to play. They can finance restoration and protection of nature via a number of financial vehicles, and help close the global biodiversity funding gap by developing innovative deals such as debt for nature swaps. But money also has a darker side. In 2019, the world\u2019s largest banks invested more than USD 2.6 trillion \u2013 or 5% of global GDP – in sectors which governments and scientists agree are the primary drivers of biodiversity destruction according to research by Bankrolling Extinction.<\/p>\n

For a long time impact on biodiversity was a blind spot for financial institutions, who look at the world from their own portfolio and not real world impacts. If you look at a Bloomberg terminal \u2013 a software system used by many portfolio managers and brokers \u2013 there is still hardly any data on the impact of investments on nature. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. From the EU green deal to the postponed 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) financial institutions realize that biodiversity loss may be the next system risk to be on the lookout for. And luckily for the establishment of the Partnership Biodiversity Accounting Financials, the Taskforce Nature Related Financial Disclosures, and the Finance for Biodiversity pledge are helping them to embed these risks.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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