Acting on the IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment – Turning Biodiversity Science into Financial Products
How can solution providers design commercially appealing investment products, aligned with biodiversity science, and drive capital towards impactful economic activities?
Authors of the IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment present key findings, followed by insights from practitioners in nature measurement, asset management, banking, and private markets. Participants then co-design innovative investment approaches and product concepts in a workshop, identifying catalysts for scaling up nature-related financial products and barriers to their adoption.
Framing this topic
This short section provides context for the event to ensure all participants, regardless of prior knowledge, are equipped to engage with the discussion.
Nature loss presents a systemic economic risk. The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment provides the first global scientific baseline for how companies depend on and impact nature. It also categorizes methods and tools and outlines action options for Business and Finance – yet a “translation gap” persists between scientific evidence and financial product innovation. This workshop bridges that divide. We bring IPBES authors together with pioneers in nature measurement, banking, PE, and asset management to co-design investment approaches that actually scale.
