All Biodiversity articles – Page 2
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Investing in the power of nature
The crisis facing the world’s biodiversity has become front of mind for policymakers and investors in recent years. Investing in natural capital—the world’s stock of natural resources that combine to yield a flow of benefits—represents an exciting investment innovation that can achieve a range of positive impacts and create opportunities outside of traditional investment silos.
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Natural capital: Increasingly considered a key component of modern investment strategies
Investors are turning their attention to natural capital as the depletion and damage to global natural resources are fast translating to financial risks. Nature has subsidised our growth to its serious detriment, creating another existential threat, inextricably linked with climate change.
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Active management drives sustainable forest value & returns
For generations, forests have been recognised by land managers and local communities for the benefits they provide: clean water, biodiversity, wildlife habitat, microclimate stabilisation, aesthetic beauty, and, when actively managed, the sustainable generation of forest products.
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2022 – 2023 Annual Stewardship Report: Aligning advocacy with actions
Welcome to the Nuveen 2022 – 2023 Stewardship Report. For more than 125 years, along with our parent company TIAA, we have helped millions of investors achieve long-term financial health.
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Investing in a critical global resource: water
In this paper, Impax Asset Management, a delegated manager of BNP Paribas Asset Management, discusses the fundamental drivers of the global water industry’s growth and regulation. Both are shaping priorities in the sector. What does this mean for the opportunity set for investors? What are some of the evolving technologies and solutions that could shape the market? Here is a shortened version of the paper presenting the main points.
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Biodiversity in the Balance
Biodiversity is gaining prominence in fundamental investment analysis across asset classes, based on a deeper understanding of its importance as a potentially material issue for investors. By using a coherent analytical approach, we believe it’s possible to incorporate nature-related risks and opportunities in research and investment processes that support the efforts of capital allocators to harvest meaningful returns over time.
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Biodiversity: a fundamental part of our natural capital
Consideration of the environmental impact of real estate is usually focussed on greenhouse gas emissions during construction and operations. However, another critical aspect is the impact of the built environment on biodiversity.
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Integrating biodiversity into portfolios: a bespoke framework
Biodiversity losses may have a material effect on some companies, but companies also erode biodiversity through their activities and practices.
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ESG Thema – Special COP28: Main outcomes and implications for investors
A significant win for climate diplomacy on the back of strong technological tailwinds, daunting challenges ahead
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Growing green: Cultivating a sustainable future through an ecosystem service valuation
The Franklin Templeton Fixed Income team believes that sustainable investing will be a dominant investment trend in the coming years, with structural tailwinds that could help improve financial returns.
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Impact investing is now
Sustainable investment has become a significant trend in financial markets as science and society address a growing range of issues that pose both risks and opportunities: biodiversity protection, water management, extreme weather events, diversity, equity, and inclusion, are just some of the topics on investors’ minds.
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Four critical elements for asset managers to meet the biodiversity challenge
Our biodiversity system is deteriorating at an alarming rate and its loss is causing damage to the natural world, society, and global economy.
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Sustainability watch: record temperatures, marine biodiversity and renewable investment
Our selection of sustainability news from October includes news of the hottest year on record, the largest-ever US state investment in renewable energy, and Ireland’s potential to develop a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry.
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The COP conundrum
Much has been achieved but much more needs to be done if the COP convention is to retain credibility.
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Biodiversity investing: three drivers of alpha
Protecting biosystems is an obligation for responsible investors but we believe it can also bring long-term rewards.
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Biodiversity Equity, Annual report 2022-3
Our annual report looks at the battle against deforestation. Despite the scale of destruction to key global forestry regions, there is a developing consensus that collective action from multiple stakeholders can halt, or even reverse, the ecological damage.
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What Biodiversity Loss Could Mean for the Global Economy
In Allspring’s new series, “Eye on SI,” we present perspectives on sustainable investing (SI) and discuss how various environmental and social themes can create investment risks and opportunities.
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A new dawn for voluntary carbon markets?
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) recently introduced its long-awaited Assessment Framework aimed at enhancing transparency and credibility in the voluntary carbon market. These guidelines have the potential to boost confidence and participation, while driving price differentiation for high-quality credits in a market projected to grow to about USD 250 bn within the next decade.
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Investor dissension mounts as temperatures rise
The 2023 vote season was characterised by investor frustration over companies’ inadequate responses to climate change, and stakeholder concerns about labour rights and pay as the cost of living crisis continued to bite. Richard Adeniyi-Jones and Joanne Beatty highlight the key votes and trends.
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A deadly harvest?
While synthetic pesticides are designed to kill certain species, they can also have unintended consequences for the environment and human health. By Sonya Likhtman and Zoe de Spoelberch.
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