UNEP FI Virtual Panel | Nature & Biodiversity: Exploring opportunities to scale

The natural world underpins our economies, with more than 44
trillion USD of economic value generation, half the world’s GDP, moderately or
highly dependent on this critical asset. Nature is central to supply chains and
raw materials, supporting the businesses we finance, invest in and insure - and
yet it is increasingly under threat. With international biodiversity frameworks
being drawn up in 2021, and key developments such as ENCORE’s Biodiversity
Module, and the Task Force on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
coming online, the race to halt and reverse biodiversity loss has begun -
presenting new opportunities for portfolio alignment with a global biodiversity
framework. 

This session will explore how European investors can move
from the case for investing in nature to meeting the conservation finance gap
at scale. This shift presents many business opportunities for European
investors, with the support of blended finance and strategic public investments
in accelerating nature finance.