Date and time
Thursday, 2 November 2023 09:00 BST
About this event
Event for asset owner and managers to help them identify and quantify nature-related risks
Asset owners and managers are seeking new inputs into their investment decisions to account for a wide range of ESG impacts and risks. Following the signing of the Global Biodiversity Framework last December, the challenge of identifying and quantifying nature-related risks is front of mind for many investors.
New disclosure rules are imminent, to align finance flows to the GBF’s goals, with regulators globally expected to leverage the work of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. But calculating and monitoring nature-related risks and impacts is significantly harder than counting GHG emissions. Measures of species abundance, for example, are not well understood, while differences across locations and sectors are stark, but hard to compare.
Investors’ need for nature-related data inputs is urgent, but it is set against a clouded backdrop. ESG data, ratings and scores are subject to increasing scrutiny by regulators, while asset owners and managers struggle to identify the right data and technology partners to help them understand risks and impacts across portfolios and asset classes. With companies not yet mandated to disclose nature-related risks, a variety of innovative new technologies and methodologies are vying for investors’ attention, but which ones will best support nature-positive outcomes in the long term?