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Biodiversity
Biodiversity encompasses the variety of life on Earth, forming the ecosystems that support human well-being and economic activity. All industries rely on healthy ecosystems for resources and services, making biodiversity preservation critical for economic stability. Biodiversity loss introduces material risks including supply chain disruptions, regulatory challenges, and reputational damage, while also creating investment opportunities in biodiversity restoration and natural resource management.
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Portfolio Earth
Portfolio Earth is a collective of individuals working to highlight the finance industry’s harmful impact on the environment. It raises awareness of the banking sector’s contribution to environmental degradation with issues including the global biodiversity crisis and plastic packaging pollution.
World Wide Fund for Nature (World Wildlife Fund - WWF)
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) was originally known as World Wildlife Fund (US and Canada still retain the old name). WWF is an international non-governmental organisation centering on the preservation of wilderness and reducing the human ecological footprint on the environment. Focus areas include oceans, food, wildlife, freshwater, climate change and forests.
Handbook for nature-related financial risks: key concepts and a framework for identification
The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has created this handbook and a framework for the identification of nature-related financial risks. It builds on the Dasgupta Review of the economics of biodiversity, enabling financial institutions to begin embedding nature into mainstream financial models, risk frameworks, and portfolio strategies.
The drawdown review 2020: Climate solutions for a new decade
This report analyses climate solutions that are proven, exist and will help reach drawdown. Drawdown is the point where greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are steadily declining, preventing further climate change. The climate solutions proposed are organised across three categories: reducing sources of emissions, supporting carbon sinks, and improving society.
Blueprint for business leadership on the SDGs: A principles-based approach
Business cannot thrive unless people and planet are thriving. This publication presents a framework for the next generation of business leadership with the intention to foster contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals at scale.
Factory farming in Asia: Assessing investment risks
Asia's meat, dairy, and seafood industries are increasingly vulnerable to risks with the potential to damage returns. This report analyses twelve Asia-Pacific markets identifying five areas of risk including food safety and nutrition, public health, environment, animal welfare and labour standards. Each area of risk includes key questions for investors.
Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR)
FAIRR Initiative is a diverse investor network that raises awareness of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities generated by intensive livestock production. They provide investors with the tools to combat environmental and social issues through sustainable finance in global food systems.
Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action
Elinor Ostrom examines the management of common-pool resources such as rivers, bridges and grazing areas. Ostrom discusses the ‘tragedy of the commons’ and environmental, economic and social threats to common-pool resources. Ostrom applies political and economic theory and policy literature to discuss potential solutions and challenge conventional approaches.
The emergence of foreseeable biodiversity-related liability risks for financial institutions: A gathering storm?
This report proposes a framework for financial institutions to consider biodiversity-related liability risks in their broader assessment of financial risks associated with biodiversity. Understanding the potential of liability risks will help financial institutions identify, price and mitigate the direct and indirect impacts of biodiversity-related risks.
Winning without win-win? Recommendations on financial market strategies for biodiversity and nature
Expert recommendations for investors regarding financial market strategies to address urgent risks in biodiversity and nature, including examples of meaningful market actions and critique of 'win-win' thinking in investment decision-making. Recommendations drawn from a private cross-sectoral dialogue hosted by Preventable Surprises in February 2021.
Preventable Surprises
Preventable Surprises are a group of investment industry insiders working to persuade institutional investors to accept their fiduciary responsibility to mitigate systemic risks before the next preventable surprise. Activities include online dialogues, research reports, surveys and policy.
Climate-related risk scenarios for the 2050s: Exploring plausible futures for aquaculture and fisheries in New Zealand
Adopting an organisational risk lens, this report explores the potential extent and interconnectedness of climate-related impacts to New Zealand Fisheries through two, alternate scenarios (reflecting 2ºC and 4ºC of global warming) set in the year 2050. The report aims to support strategic decision making about sustainable utilisation of New Zealand's ocean resources.
Environmental Research Letters
Environmental Research Letters (ERL) is a high-impact, open-access journal dedicated to bringing together intellectual and professional scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists, as well as the public sector and civil society, all of whom are engaged in efforts to understand the state of natural systems.
Rethinking food and agriculture 2020-2030: The second domestication of plants and animals, the disruption of the cow, and the collapse of industrial livestock farming
Rethinking food and agriculture focuses on new technologies driving the transformation of the food and agriculture sectors and the implications for the cattle industry in the United States. It argues that 2020-2030 will see the current industrialised, animal-agriculture system be replaced with a Food-as-Software model.
States of the apes: The impact of infrastructure development on biodiversity
The impact of infrastructure projects on biodiversity are examined, using apes to illustrate how investors can contribute to biodiversity protection. A sustainable approach to infrastructure development, which mitigates environmental, financial and reputational risks of investment, is presented.
Arcus Foundation
Arcus Foundation is a charitable foundation for causes related to great ape conservation and LGBTQ rights and social justice. They partner with experts and advocates for change to ensure that LGBTQ people and apes thrive in a world where social and environmental justice are a reality.
