Integrating Finance and Biodiversity for a Nature Positive Future

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，利用和催化世界领先的科学，实现绿色自然金融和为自然恢复动员资本。该项目与《2023年英国绿色金融战略和环境改善计划》相一致，具有国际相关性。我们汇集了17个研究机构，已经有250多个合作伙伴参与，形成一个高影响力的网络，提供共同设计的、优秀的、面向需求的研究，其活动旨在产生广泛的影响。该方案包括三个“旗舰”倡议，由一个战略协调和一体化中心联系起来。旗舰项目1，为绿色部门转型融资，解决了英国农业部门恢复自然的需求，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制定提供信息。这些将在英格兰和北爱尔兰的实际地点实施，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。目标是创建有利于投资者、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品链对生物多样性的影响。旗舰项目2——绿色金融（Greening Finance for Nature），关注银行和资产管理公司等金融机构的决策过程。他们的决定可能对自然产生不利影响，但改变可以在很大程度上解决生物多样性丧失的问题。重点将放在投资组合风险管理、业务战略、风险披露和防止“漂绿”上。这些挑战包括确保可靠的数据、解决科学知识的差距以及弥合科学与金融之间的差距。其目标是通过融入自然来彻底改变财务决策。这将受到科学数据和指导以及新的监管框架的推动。旗舰项目3：生物多样性融资，解决大规模生物多样性保护和恢复融资的挑战。它将促进生物多样性融资的最佳实践和协调，并将支持地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，相互联系的，并超越个别地点。主要利益相关者，包括参与设计旗舰项目的生物多样性信贷联盟，将帮助提供一个扩大生物多样性融资的变革理论。目标是确定生物多样性的高诚信融资应该是什么样子，确定障碍和机会，并开始解决它们。

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.