Natural Capital

Analysis

22 March 2023

Water quality: a critical pillar of biodiversity

Tighter regulation could help investors improve water quality and tackle biodiversity loss, write Lisa Beauvilain and Johan Florén
10 March 2023

Accounting for Asia's biodiversity

The finance industry should develop its own methods of biodiversity accounting, argues ADM's Christopher Botsford
27 February 2023

Biodiversity fund assets triple in 2022 to nearly $1bn

Assets in biodiversity funds passed $984 million at the end of 2022, with a flurry of strategy launches despite macroeconomic woes, Thomas Cox reports

News

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  1. TNFD reveals first 14 core disclosure metrics
  2. NatureVest: Demand for biodiversity credits outstripping supply
  3. Bond investors 'now pricing in' oil and gas firm climate strategies
  4. TNFD to release disclosure metrics next week
  5. Sovereign SLBs are 'good hedge' against sustainability policy changes
  6. MSCI ESG ratings downgrade "not enough", says Impact Cubed
  7. Exclusive: Jupiter to close sustainable bond funds
  8. Unclear reporting standards proving difficult for SMEs, says DBS
  9. Blended finance in nature 'the opportunity of our time', says GIM
  10. Australian investors call for energy transition authority

Biodiversity Insight 2023

Environmental Finance's Biodiversity Insight 2023

Featuring articles about how investors are incorporating biodiversity concerns into their decisions in light of the COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework.

Seizing the nature investment opportunity

Climate Asset Management has just raised $650 million for its two natural capital investment strategies. Martin Berg, the chief investment officer of its Nature Based Carbon Strategy, explains its approach

Measuring the biodiversity footprint of a portfolio

Elodie Milleret, Iceberg Data Lab's lead biodiversity expert gives an overview of Iceberg's Corporate Biodiversity Footprint (CBF) measurement tool

The role of investors in reversing deforestation

Commodity-driven deforestation poses significant risks to companies and their investors, write Ingrid Kukuljan and Sonya Likhtman

Natural selection: the investment case for addressing biodiversity loss

Investment opportunities are emerging to reduce pressure on biodiversity - although nature restoration is proving thornier, say Lisa Beauvilain, global head of sustainability and stewardship, and Chris Dodwell, head of policy and advocacy, at Impax Asset Management

Putting a price on the priceless

Quantifying Nature is developing a platform that will enable companies and investors to understand their assets' value at risk from degrading nature. Its CEO Adrien Firmenich and head of biodiversity Minerva Singh explain

Crediting nature

Verra's director of sustainable development innovation Sinclair Vincent discusses a new nature crediting framework that the standards-setting body is developing.

Annual Market Rankings 2022

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Annual Market Rankings 2022

The winners of the Annual Market Rankings 2022 have been announced

Carbon markets ride out energy crisis

Global carbon markets have proved resilient, despite a year of global uncertainty, winners of this year's Market Rankings told Genevieve Redgrave

RECs withstand a volatile year

Renewable energy certificates experienced a turbulent but buoyant year, writes Annabelle Palmer

Weather markets continue to heat up

Climate-related adverse weather and macroeconomic conditions kept demand high for weather risk transfer products, this year's Environmental Finance Market Rankings winners tell Annabelle Palmer

Uniting solutions for environmental markets

Following the merger of Element Markets and Bluesource and rebrand to Anew Climate, Environmental Finance spoke with Anew's CEO Angela Schwarz to hear what the firm is bringing to the markets it operates in

How emitters are responding to markets in flux

ClearBlue won a raft of categories in Environmental Finance's 2022 Market Rankings. Here, its advisory manager Adi Dunkelman and manager of origination Alejandro Alarcon Carrillo cast an eye over developments in their key markets

An evolving voluntary carbon market

Evolution Markets won a raft of categories in the 2022 Environmental Finance Market Rankings. Here, its CEO Evan Ard and president and head of brokerage services Peter Zaborowsky review developments in voluntary carbon

Vertis: Carbon pricing on the march

Despite a disappointing COP27, national and regional carbon pricing schemes are helping to drive decarbonisation - and keeping emitters and traders closely watching the market, says Vertis Environmental Finance deputy CEO Gauthier Bily