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  • PBAF launches 'first' step-by-step nature dependencies approach

    05 July 2023

    The Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF) has launched a five-step approach for financial institutions to assess their ecosystem services dependencies.

  • People moves 23 June, including Blackstone, Moody's, Temasek and more

    23 June 2023

  • TNFD metrics 'don't allow direct assessment of COP15 contribution'

    15 June 2023

    The draft core disclosure metrics of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) do not show whether businesses are fulfilling a key goal of the final agreement from COP15, data providers and consultants have claimed.

  • Investor alliance preparing nature targets guidance

    27 April 2023

    Guidance for investors on setting targets for nature should be launched by the end of the year by the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation (FfB), a director at the initiative said.

  • Sectors most damaging to biodiversity revealed in pilot for NA100

    14 April 2023

    The food, beverage and tobacco sector has the highest potential negative impact on biodiversity out of those analysed, followed by the materials sector, the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation (FfB) has said.

  • People moves 7 April: Sustainable Fitch, Zurich, IIGCC, Symbiotics ... and more

    07 April 2023

  • PBAF seeks to nip biodiversity materiality struggles in the bud

    17 March 2023

    The Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF) is prioritising helping financial institutions overcome their struggles to assess biodiversity materiality, the organisation has said.

  • CDC Biodiversité to add three sectors to biodiversity footprint tool

    14 March 2023

    CDC is planning to expand its biodiversity footprinting tool to enable simplified assessments of three sectors in more detail, as asset managers trial the methodology with private portfolio companies.

  • US launches natural capital accounting strategy

    20 January 2023

    A strategy for integrating natural capital accounting into the US economic statistical system has been published by the US government, partly in response to demands from private finance.

  • NatureAlpha collaborates with IBAT

    20 January 2023

    Data provider NatureAlpha has collaborated with the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) to provide data to help investors assess biodiversity risks of portfolio companies.