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Investing in Biodiversity - the Good Future podcast is back!
It’s been a long time coming, but businesses and investors are finally starting to recognise the value of nature.
Measuring biodiversity and ‘natural capital’ is the next frontier for impact investors, and I’m launching a podcast series that explores everything you need to know.
It’s a reaction to biodiversity loss reaching crisis levels; there are estimates that more than a million species are at risk of extinction, and it’s becoming clear that our economic model of extraction is not sustainable.
For companies that are dependent on natural capital and healthy ecosystems for their products, well, the risks have finally become too great to ignore.
Ever since I studied economics some 20 years ago, I’ve felt that traditional economic theories didn’t effectively value environmental resources. It’s been a huge driver in my career, and it’s what led me to work as an impact investment consultant; so it's exciting to see both global corporations and heavyweight investors starting to integrate the conservation and regeneration of natural-capital into their business models.
It’s not going to be easy. Yes, we’ve all spent a decade working out how to measure carbon emissions, but that was just scratching the surface. The real challenge is understanding our place in a complex environmental ecosystem, that is nearing a dangerous tipping point.
This is the new frontier of impact measurement; we’re seeing the development of new tools for measurement and analysis, and new models for disclosure and reporting.
Central to this is the TNFD, the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures. In the same way that the TCFD drove the normalisation of climate reporting, it’s hoped the TNFD will lay the foundation for companies to analyse their dependencies, and their impacts, on nature.
It’s an exciting space, and in preparation for the release of the final TNFD report next month, I’m launching a podcast series dedicated to Natural Capital and Biodiversity; it will look at how we can invest in biodiversity, to drive conservation and regeneration.
I’m going to speak to the head of conservation at WWF Rachel Lowry; as well as a fund manager who's been building natural capital strategies for decades, plus, I’ll do a deep-dive into the final TNFD report with the person leading the show, Tony Goldner, who is executive director of the TNFD program.
The first episode will be released later this week, with sponsorship from the environmental markets developer, GreenCollar.
I’m really excited about this one, it’s the perfect topic to reboot the Good Future podcast, which has been on an extended break for much of this year.
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The Business of Sustainability
By John Treadgold
Stopping climate change is the biggest investment opportunity of our lifetime, and its already driving radical change in how financial markets operate. Sign-up for the latest insights into sustainability, ESG and impact investing, and all the episodes of the Good Future podcast as they're released.
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