The IFC Performance Standard 6 outlines guidelines for conserving biodiversity and managing living natural resources. It aims to protect and sustain biodiversity, ensure the sustainable management of natural resources, and promote the maintenance of ecosystem services. By implementing these standards, projects can minimise environmental impacts, contribute to conservation efforts, and support sustainable livelihoods, enhancing overall project sustainability and resilience.

This investor guide presents three steps that financial institutions can follow to use existing tools and datasets to screen investments for exposure to nature-related risks, taking into consideration the climate-nature nexus. The guide was written by financial institutions for financial institutions.

This guide helps investors identify opportunities at the climate-nature nexus, emphasising integrated approaches to reduce risks and enhance returns. It provides tools, case studies, and frameworks to align portfolios with climate and biodiversity goals, fostering sustainable and resilient investments.

This report provides investors with insights into leading practices for integrating biodiversity into investment strategies. It highlights best practices, case studies, and practical recommendations for enhancing the sustainability and resilience of investment portfolios.

The framework seeks to create a shared understanding and common language for investors on target setting, while steering private financial flows in alignment with the mission of the Global Biodiversity Framework to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. It focuses on listed equity and corporate bonds.

This supplement provides financial institutions with a framework for integrating natural capital considerations into their decision-making processes. It offers practical guidance on assessing and valuing natural capital dependencies and impacts, helping institutions manage risks and identify opportunities related to natural capital. It includes methodologies for incorporating natural capital into investment analysis, lending, and insurance underwriting, ultimately promoting sustainable finance practices.

This guide supports investors in integrating nature and climate considerations into investment strategies. It offers insights and frameworks for addressing the interconnected challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, promoting holistic and sustainable investment approaches.

This document provides guidance for organisations when identifying their nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities. It outlines the foundation of international standards, guidelines and frameworks, in particular the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The guidance document's key focus areas include guidance for meaningful engagement with Indigenous Peoples, Local Communitas (IPLC) & affected stakeholders, preparation for engagement, and incorporate of engagement into action.

This guide provides investors with a roadmap for creating deforestation-free pension portfolios. It offers strategies and best practices for identifying and mitigating deforestation risks, ensuring responsible investment in pension funds.

This handbook offers operational advice and project preparation guidelines, including hands-on formats that project proponents can use continuously and iteratively to develop the entire business case of NbS, enabling them to go from the idea stage towards an investment proposal or investment project stage that can be effectively assessed by potential investors. To illustrate the use of these guidelines the handbook presents the results of their application to three cases in Europe within the NAIAD project and to one case in Asia that was part of the Water as Leverage for Resilient Cities Asia programme.

This CEO brief by the WEF focuses on the business case for nature, highlighting the importance of integrating nature into financial decision-making to achieve sustainable economic growth and biodiversity conservation.

This report explores legal, policy, and regulatory frameworks to develop high-integrity biodiversity credit markets. These markets aim to finance nature-positive and equitable outcomes, providing innovative and scalable funding for biodiversity conservation and restoration. This report provides investors with insights into the legal and regulatory foundations that support high quality offset markets. As such, this report can be used as a tool to inform policy advocacy in the biodiversity credit market space.

This report provides guidance on the consistent measurement of emissions reduction activities across agriculture and forestry assets. This report may assist investors in agriculture and forestry to screen investment strategies and hold asset managers and operators to account for emissions reduction. This may facilitate the flow of capital into replicable sustainable activities, allowing investors and financiers to compare projects more easily and prioritise investments according to their own sustainability goals.

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current status and challenges faced by Indigenous peoples and local communities in managing their lands and territories. It highlights the importance of these lands for biodiversity conservation, climate resilience, and cultural heritage. This report supports investors in integrating biodiversity into investment decision-making by providing crucial insights into the stewardship of Indigenous lands. It informs engagement and stewardship activities with corporations, and, through the provision of data about the importance of these lands for the provision of ecosystem services, aids in assessing biodiversity impacts and dependencies, and highlights the importance of sustainable land management.

This report examines the financial flows that drive deforestation and environmental degradation in Australia. It tracks investments and funding sources linked to activities that impact the environment, providing transparency and accountability. The report aims to inform stakeholders, including policymakers, investors, and the public, about the financial drivers of environmental harm and promote responsible investment practices.

This website hosts the Australia State of the Environment Report, which provides comprehensive assessments of the condition of Australia's environment. The report covers various themes, including biodiversity, land, inland water, coasts, marine environment, atmosphere, and heritage. It offers valuable insights into environmental trends, pressures, and management actions, supporting informed policy and decision-making for sustainable development.