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REDDy-Set-Grow Part II: Private sector suggestions for international climate change negotiators

Suggestions by the financial sector on an effective forest-based climate change mitigation policy.
Executive Summary

Sustainable Insight – The nature of ecosystem service risks for business

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services degradation and loss has gained business’ attention in recent years, but not that of the finance sector.

REDDy, Set, Grow – Opportunities and roles for financial institutions in forest carbon markets

Opportunities for financial actors and governments in the budding forest carbon markets

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Investment Insight 1.1

Published: 2010 | by: UNEP FI Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Investment Insight 1.1 (46 KB | 4 pages)

Water and Finance: Investment Insight 1.1

Published: 2010 | by: UNEP FI Water and Finance: Investment Insight 1.1 (56 KB | 3 pages)

Chief Liquidity Series – Issue 2: Power Sector

Water-related materiality briefings for financial institutions

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Investment Insight 1.0

Published: 2010 | by: UNEP FI Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Investment Insight 1.0 (179 KB | 4 pages)

Water and Finance: Investment Insight 1.0

Published: 2010 | by: UNEP FI Water and Finance: Investment Insight 1.0 (196 KB | 3 pages)

Biodiversity offsets and the mitigation hierarchy: a review of current application in the banking sector

A review of the business case, loan conditions and current practice in financial institutions

Chief Liquidity Series – Issue 1: Agribusiness (geography- and sector-specific water materiality briefings for financial institutions)

Concrete guidance at the local level – The questions financial institutions should ask to better handle water challenges facing agribusiness actors throughout the world

The Natural Value Initiative: The Ecosystem Services Benchmark

A tool enabling institutional investors to understand the impacts and dependency of their investments on biodiversity and ecosystem services

The Natural Value Initiative: Linking Shareholder and Natural Value

Results achieved in the first application of the Ecosystem Services Benchmark tool on the global Food, Beverage and Tobacco sectors
Executive summary

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – Bloom or Bust?

Ecological balance is one of the key pillars of sustainable development.

Half full or half empty?

Guidance on water risks and opportunities for lenders and investors.

CEO Briefing – Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bloom or Bust?

Biodiversity and business opportunity

Financing Water: Risks and Opportunities

What areas of tangible water-related risk are financial institutions exposed to when dealing with businesses, from water-intensive users to those that have a water footprint along the supply chain? How can financial institutions manage and mitigate water-related risk effectively?