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  • A first stab: French institutions try to calculate their biodiversity footprints

    03 August 2023

    As French financial institutions for the first time estimate the scale of their impacts on nature, the numbers look bleak - but not comparable. Thomas Cox writes

  • SocGen life insurer uses CDC data to calculate biodiversity footprint

    14 July 2023

    The life insurance arm of Société Générale Group has published its biodiversity footprint using CDC Biodiversité's Global Biodiversity Score (GBS) tool.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • French financial system 'significantly exposed' to biodiversity risk

    31 August 2021

    The French financial system is 'significantly exposed' to physical and transition biodiversity risk, according to academic research by the country's central bank

  • Biodiversity accounting initiative outlines initial guidelines

    25 September 2020

    A report endorsed by banks and asset managers has laid out a common approach to measuring positive impact on biodiversity.

  • Financial sector develops methodology for biodiversity impact

    22 November 2018

    Financial institutions have developed a methodology to measure their global impact on biodiversity, which will enable them to help support its conservation.