Crash course on Biodiversity, Business & Finance

A short introduction to the Convention on Biodiversity, CBD

The GBF provides a strategic vision and a global roadmap för the conservation, protection, restoration and sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems until 2030 and long-term goals for 2050.

IPBES is the intergovernmental body, established in 2012, which assesses the state of biodiversity and of the ecosystem services it provides to society.

IUCN provides data, assessments and analysis, reliable standards and neutral meeting forums and capacity building resources.

The UN Environmental Programme World Center for Conservation Monitoring is responsibile for biodiversity assessment and support for policy development and implementation.

NCP is all the contributions, both positive and negative, of living nature, (all organisms, ecosystems and their associated ecological and evolutionary processes)to the quality of human life.

Five drivers of loss of biodiversity were identified in the 2019 IPBES report on the state of the world´s biodiversity and ecosystem services.

To counteract the loss of biodiversity, the EU Member states have adopted several directives, including the Species and Habitats Directive

The European Green Deal is a set of initiatives that aim to first enable a 55 percent reduction in current carbon emissions by 2030 and then move on towards climate neutrality.

The EU Taxonomy is a classification system based on common definitions of sustainability that allows companies to work on, make visible and communicate sustainability. In particular, it helps investors to distinguish between sustainable and unsustainable investments.

The Living Planet Report is the world's leading science-based analysis of the health of our planet and the impact of human activity. It is based on several different metrics, one of the largest being the Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures and assesses the drivers of biodiversity loss

IBAT provides biodiversity data in an integrated way from three main databases - the World Database on Protected Areas, the World Database on Key Biodiversity Areas and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

The Science Based Targets Network is a collaboration that helps companies and cities set science-based climate and environmental targets.

Using more than fifty global data sources, from actors such as WWF, IUCN, the World Bank and NASA, the Biodiversity Risk Filter can show the risks of a company or a financial portfolio from a Nature and Business perspective, adapted to industry and geographical conditions.

ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure) is a tool that helps users to better understand and visualise the impact of environmental change on the economy.

ESG is an organisational tool that companies use to measure and improve their climate and environmental impact in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The SFDR is a European regulation introduced to improve market transparency for sustainable investment products, prevent greenwashing and increase the transparency of sustainability claims made by financial market participants.

The CSRD revises and strengthens the current rules, NFRD. The requirements are extended to all large companies and all listed companies in the EU.

GRI is an independent international organisation that helps companies and other organisations to take responsibility for their impacts by providing them with a globally shared language for communicating those impacts.

The TNFD is an initiative by a large network of private stakeholders who are developing a framework for reporting financial risks related to the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services.