BIOPATH - Pathways for an efficient alignment of the Financial System with the needs of Biodiversity - is a research programme with a vision that the knowledge and innovations generated in BIOPATH are widely integrated into decision-making in industry and the financial system, thereby contributing to a transformative change that has turned the financial system into an important driver for halting and reversing the loss of biodiversity.

BIOPATH aims to map, assess, co-develop and test existing and novel approaches for integration of biodiversity considerations into financial decision-making with our financial and industrial partners, and analyse the institutional and policy implications of potential transition pathways.

• The BIOPATH programme is formulated in dialogue with our extensive partner network to ensure that short- and long-term impacts are aligned with current market needs. Rooted in the urgent need to safeguard biodiversity and the growing awareness among industrial, financial, and governmental actors of the dire state of biodiversity loss, BIOPATH will leverage the transformative power of the financial system to foster change.
  

• BIOPATH focuses on land-use change and management intensity related to agriculture, forestry, and energy, because land-use is the largest drivers of terrestrial biodiversity loss. BIOPATH is divided into three work-packages (WPs).

  WP1 will critically assess and improve the landscape of biodiversity impact assessment approaches to support financial decision-makers with guidance on their use.

  WP2 will critically assess and improve existing financial decisionmaking processes in industry and the financial system and develop innovative approaches to leverage the transformative power of the financial system.

  WP3 will critically assess existing governance solutions and analyse the institutional and policy implications of potential transition pathways.

• BIOPATH consists of an interdisciplinary group of researchers with expertise in biodiversity research, life-cycleassessment, biodiversity prioritisation approaches, sustainable finance, economics, political science, accounting, policy processes, law and governance, and digital innovation. Partners are global leaders in sustainability work, covering the entire land-use value-chain of the agriculture, forestry and energy industry as well as the financial system, thereby having a real impact and an ability to foster change.