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GREEN BOND MARKET NEEDS MORE (BIO-) DIVERSITY

Post Date: 25 April 2023

Investors are mostly looking for a summary of key performance indicators, ideally for greenhouse gas emission reduction. However, biodiversity does not fit into that metric. At the very least - we argue - this ambition for quantification needs to be applied to biodiversity separately. Biodiversity cannot be treated as an annex to climate change. If the science is right on biodiversity and its potential to severely affect the functioning of our food networks and endanger the world as we know it, then green finance needs to step up and develop methodologies that put it on par with climate change objectives. 


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