Integrating Finance and Biodiversity for a Nature Positive Future

整合金融和生物多样性，创造积极自然的未来

• 批准号: NE/Z503368/1
• 负责人: Nick Wells
• 金额: $ 384.97万
• 依托单位: UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FZ503368%2F1
• 关键词: Integrating; Finance; Biodiversity; Nature; Positive

Our Vision is to build national capability bridging scientific, finance, policy and third sector communities, harnessing and catalysing world-leading science to enable the greening of finance for nature and mobilisation of capital for nature recovery.The programme aligns with the 2023 UK Green Finance Strategy and Environmental Improvement Plan and is internationally relevant.?We bring together 17 research institutions, already engaging over 250 partners, into one high-impact network delivering co-designed, excellent and needs-orientated research, with activities that aim for broad-ranging impact.The programme comprises three 'flagship' initiatives, linked by a strategic coordination and integration hub.Flagship 1, Financing Green Sector Transitions, addresses the need to restore nature in the UK's agriculture sector, which accounts for over 70% of land-cover. In collaboration with the agri-food sector, investors and civil society, it will inform the development of financial tools and policies. These will be implemented at real-world sites in England and Northern Ireland to assess their impact on biodiversity. The research will also analyse the impact on habitats of international supply chains, such as tea and rubber imports. The goal is to create financial instruments and reporting mechanisms that benefit investors, land-users, nature and society, while addressing the impacts of global and UK agri-food chains on biodiversity.Flagship 2, Greening Finance for Nature, focusses on the decision-making processes of financial institutions such as banks and asset management companies. Their decisions can impact nature adversely, yet change could substantially address biodiversity loss. The focus will be on portfolio risk management, business strategy, risk disclosure and the prevention of greenwashing. The challenges include securing reliable data, addressing gaps in scientific knowledge and bridging the gap between science and finance. The goal is to revolutionise financial decision-making by incorporating nature within it. This will be driven by scientific data and guidance, and new regulatory frameworks.Flagship 3, Financing Biodiversity, tackles the challenge of financing biodiversity conservation and restoration with integrity at large-scales. It will promote best practices and coordination in biodiversity finance, and will champion the importance of between-site biodiversity and extinction risk reduction. This will ensure that conservation and restoration is effective, interconnected and extends beyond individual sites. Key stakeholders, including the Biodiversity Credit Alliance that co-designed the flagship, will help deliver a theory of change for scaling-up biodiversity finance. The goal is to define what high-integrity finance for biodiversity should look like, identify barriers and opportunities and start addressing them.

我们的愿景是建立连接科学、金融、政策和第三部门社区的国家能力，利用和促进世界领先的科学，以实现为自然提供绿色融资并为自然恢复调动资本。该计划与2023年英国绿色金融战略和环境改善计划保持一致，并具有国际意义。我们将17家研究机构聚集在一起，形成一个高影响力的网络，提供共同设计的、优秀的、以需求为导向的研究，并开展旨在产生广泛影响的活动。该计划包括三个旗舰倡议，由战略协调和整合中心联系起来。旗帜1，资助绿色部门过渡，解决了英国农业部门恢复自然的需要，农业部门占土地覆盖的70%以上。它将与农业食品部门、投资者和民间社会合作，为金融工具和政策的发展提供信息。这些措施将在英格兰和北爱尔兰的现实世界地点实施，以评估它们对生物多样性的影响。该研究还将分析茶叶和橡胶进口等国际供应链对栖息地的影响。目标是建立有利于投资者、土地使用者、自然和社会的金融工具和报告机制，同时解决全球和英国农业食物链对生物多样性的影响。他们的决定可能会对自然产生不利影响，但变化可能会在很大程度上解决生物多样性的丧失问题。重点将放在投资组合风险管理、业务战略、风险披露和防止绿色化。挑战包括确保可靠的数据，解决科学知识方面的差距，以及弥合科学和金融之间的差距。其目标是将自然融入其中，从而彻底改变金融决策。这将受到科学数据和指导以及新的监管框架的推动。为生物多样性提供资金的旗帜3，解决了为大规模、完整地保护和恢复生物多样性提供资金的挑战。它将促进生物多样性融资方面的最佳做法和协调，并将倡导站点间生物多样性和减少灭绝风险的重要性。这将确保保护和修复是有效的、相互关联的，并超越个别地点。包括共同设计该旗舰项目的生物多样性信贷联盟在内的主要利益攸关方将帮助提供一种扩大生物多样性融资的变革理论。目标是定义高度诚信的生物多样性融资应该是什么样子，确定障碍和机会，并开始解决这些问题。