How do your investments impact biodiversity?

Investors beware: biodiversity loss is as serious a threat as climate change. Our model reveals the rate at which different industries are driving species to extinction. About 250 million years ago, some 96 per cent of animal and plant species perished in what is considered to be the largest of the five mass extinction events on Earth.

Known as “the Great Dying”, the catastrophe was caused by a series of natural disasters – among them, huge volcanic eruptions in Siberia that blasted billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, raising global temperatures by 10 degrees centigrade.