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Investors are increasingly engaging with companies on the subject of natural capital, but they are not yet asking mature questions, a nature coalition told Environmental Finance.

As the third round of negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty comes to a close, draft texts show "encouraging" signs more widespread mandatory plastics disclosures are on the horizon for financial institutions and corporates, CDP has said.

Biodiversity funds are not yet seeing "mass market" interest from large institutional investors, but the rise of standardised nature-related disclosure means product demand is likely to grow, MSCI has said.

The biodiversity credit market "can't become a distraction" from action to halt biodiversity loss, environmental market experts have said, as they raised concerns over a lack of clarity on the market's purpose.

A public data utility being developed by the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) might take the form of a common standard for nature data rather than an open-source platform like that being developed for climate, its chair has suggested.

With a growing focus on climate adaptation expected at COP28, there are lessons to be learnt from assessing the inherently local nature of impacts and dependencies on biodiversity, Morningstar has said.