Market insight

• The birth of a biodiversity offset market

  Dasos Habitat Foundation and Eurowind Energy have entered into a first-of-its-kind biodiversity offset transaction, to compensate for the residual impacts on nature that will be caused by a proposed Finnish wind farm. Tapani Pahkasalo explains the thinking behind the novel transaction.

  

• What investors need to know about nature

  MSCI has just published its Investors' Guide to Nature and Biodiversity Risks and Impacts. Arne Philipp Klug and Sylvain Vanston explain what investors need to understand about nature and biodiversity risks and impacts.

  

• Measuring the biodiversity footprint of a company or portfolio

  An overview of Iceberg Data Lab's Corporate Biodiversity Footprint measurement tool.

  

• Biodiversity Equity - investing for life and the planet

  Environmental Finance speaks with Federated Hermes' Ingrid Kukuljan on the importance of investing in the companies that help mitigate biodiversity degradation at this crucial point in time.

  

• A growing focus on biodiversity risk

  As nature loss rises up the agenda, investors are adopting increasingly sophisticated approaches to the issue. Reza Marvasti and Brian Colantropo from ISS ESG survey an evolving landscape.

  

• Taking a data-driven approach to nature risk and opportunity

  Investors face a potential flood of nature-related data as efforts build to stem biodiversity loss. Bloomberg's Nadia Humphreys explains how they can begin to make sense of it.

  

• White paper: Understanding Climate Impacts with Asset-Based Data

  Despite the rapid expansion of ESG data, financial institutions across the globe still struggle to obtain transparent and comparable climate data. This absence of high-quality data is a major hurdle to understanding climate risks and impacts within financial portfolios...

  

• 2023 Global Climate Change Update

  ISS ESG, the sustainable investment arm of ISS STOXX, enables investors to develop and integrate sustainable investing policies and practices, engage on responsible investment issues, and monitor portfolio company practices through screening solutions.

  

• Shades of the transition spectrum

  Christa Clapp and Erik Christianto of S&P Global Ratings talk to Environmental Finance about how the firm's second party opinion offering has changed one year on from the acquisition of the Shades of Green business from CICERO

  

• Brazil: Investors must seize NBS and climate-smart tech opportunities now

  The seeds of a new climate investment revolution are being planted in Brazil, say Niamh McCarthy and Kyle Saukas of Climate Advisors