ESG Roundtable: Understanding and tackling biodiversity loss
Liudmila Strakodonskaya and Sian Long highlight the primary drivers of biodiversity loss and discuss a checklist that can help assess and manage exposure.
Some important take-aways:
- 5 of the 9 planetary boundaries (thresholds within which humanity can survive, develop and thrive for future generations) have been crossed
- As awareness of the key drivers of biodiversity loss has risen, so have regulatory and industry efforts to tackle the problem
- We identified four main long-term biodiversity protection opportunities for listed equity investors: sustainable materials, land and animal preservation, water ecosystems and recycling/recirculation
- Obtaining measurable data for biodiversity loss has been identified as a key challenge, but Iceberg Data Lab and other leading providers are helping to increase the availability, variety and specific metrics that are accessible to businesses
- Emerging regulation and possible reporting implications for pension schemes, such as the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
Biodiversity loss: Understanding and responding to a global systemic risk
Investors need reliable, repeatable data to drive verifiable positive outcomes in this area while seeking financial performance. We think this is now happening.
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