Biodiversity crisis: The role of investors in resolving species extinction

The decline of ecosystems is at an unprecedented level and is largely the result of human industrial activity. The world is losing biodiversity – and drivers of this loss are multiple and interconnected in complex ways.

There is increasing public scrutiny and debate on mitigating biodiversity loss. The severity of the issue has been highlighted by a United Nations report which examined the growing expectations on financial institutions to help tackle the crisis and better contribute towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) – in particular SDG 14, Life Below Water, and SDG 15, Life on Land