BIOFIN - Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity using mainstream Finance

如果要让生物多样性重新走上复苏的道路，就需要新的工具和知识，将金融资源从破坏性的经济活动转向有利于自然的投资。金融系统由相互作用和充满活力的行为者组成，他们重视确定性(规则和治理结构)和效率(结果透明度和低监测成本)。我们的目标是创建一个统一的框架和技术，为自然积极投资创造有利条件。保护和恢复生物多样性的活动(如基于自然的解决办法)往往是在地方范围内开展的独特的多方行动者努力，其结果是积极但复杂的。我们通过建立基于自然的解决方案(NBS)的分类以及良好治理结构的菜单和利益相关者参与库来解决这个问题。这将借鉴自然资本和经济学方面的专业知识和最佳实践，通过标准化投资过程和为大规模融资创造有利条件，简化决策并加快交易完成。为了加速自然积极的商业模式，我们创建了一个数据分析和承保引擎，以推进传统的项目评估和风险评估，并对预期结果进行说明和建模。我们将通过不同的真实案例研究(学习网站)评估和验证我们的方法。我们的发现和方法将启动绿色和数字双重过渡，解决交易复杂性，并为大规模投资创造有利条件，这是欧盟实现其生物多样性目标所必需的。我们的成果将确定分类中的剩余差距，并通过基于证据的建议支持政策的形成，我们将共同设计、开发和建立欧洲金融服务业技能和知识加速器的途径

If biodiversity is to be placed back on a path to recovery, new tools and knowledge are required to redirect financial resources from destructive economic activity towards nature-positive investment. The financial system consists of interacting and dynamic actors who value certainty (rules and governance structures) and efficiency (outcome transparency and low monitoring costs). We aim to create a unifying framework and technology that creates the enabling conditions for nature-positive investments. Activities that protect and restore biodiversity (such as nature-based solutions) are frequently unique, multi-actor efforts carried out at a local scale with positive, but complex outcomes. We resolve this by establishing a categorisation of nature based solutions (NBS) alongside a menu of good governance structures and a library of stakeholder engagement. This will draw on expertise and best practice in natural capital and economics to streamline decision making and accelerate transaction completion by standardising the investment process and creating the enabling conditions for large-scale finance. To accelerate nature-positive business models, we create a data analytics and underwriting engine to advance conventional project appraisal and risk assessment and account for and model expected outcomes. We will assess and validate our approach across diverse real-life case studies (learning sites). Our findings and approach will initiate a twin green and digital transition that resolves transaction complexity and creates the enabling conditions for large-scale investment that are required if the EU is to achieve its biodiversity goals. Our outcomes will identify remaining gaps in the Taxonomy and support policy forming through evidence-based recommendations and we will co-design, develop and establish pathways for skills and knowledge accelerators for the European financial services industry