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Biodiversity, Devin Murphy: “We need co-ordinated investment to restore species”

Biodiversity, Devin Murphy: “We need co-ordinated investment to restore species”

The first global review presented and approved in Yerevan shows little measurable progress in the fight against biodiversity loss. According to UNEP report State of Finance for Nature 2026, pri...

Biodiversity: Europe spends far too little and continues to fund harmful subsidies

Biodiversity: Europe spends far too little and continues to fund harmful subsidies

With just four years left to the2030 deadline, global biodiversity negotiations are seeking to move beyond promises and addressing implementation and international finance. From 19 to 30 October, th...

COP17, Marco Lambertini: “For businesses, the state of nature is the ultimate indicator”

COP17, Marco Lambertini: “For businesses, the state of nature is the ultimate indicator”

Yerevan - Finance for biodiversity is at the heart of COP17, both in the political negotiations and in the growing role of private finance. The latter was discussed primarily at side events hosted i...

Nature loss could put 140M jobs at risk across the EU, UK and Switzerland

Nature loss could put 140M jobs at risk across the EU, UK and Switzerland

Yerevan - Perhaps the Kunming-Montreal Global Agreement on Biodiversity should have been called the ‘Agreement on Food Security and Nature’s Services to the Economy’. Brutal and Ca...

COP17 seeks consensus on nature finance and tackling environmentally harmful subsidies

COP17 seeks consensus on nature finance and tackling environmentally harmful subsidies

Yerevan - With the high-level segment of the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP17) now underway, attention is turning to a key issue: financing for nature, including the mobilisation of ...

Saving the Amazon by bending the economy to environmental interests: Lula’s challenge

Saving the Amazon by bending the economy to environmental interests: Lula’s challenge

Lula has been elected president of Brazil for the fourth time. Yesterday, Sunday 25 October, at the end of a gruelling election campaign marred by irregularities, he beat his right-wing opponent Fla...

Sustainable finance and biodiversity, Reuss: “The challenge? Connecting data and bringing projects together”

Sustainable finance and biodiversity, Reuss: “The challenge? Connecting data and bringing projects together”

From risk assessment to the development of financial tools capable of supporting long-term initiatives, biodiversity raises challenges that call for greater integration between finance, public polic...

Businesses and investors keep focusing on the climate

Businesses and investors keep focusing on the climate

So the idea that major investors do not care about the climate, and that the world of finance is turning its back on the energy transition, is not true. Despite Trump and his followers, the people w...

Biodiversity and finance: conference in Rome on the Nature Positive transition

Biodiversity and finance: conference in Rome on the Nature Positive transition

Nature is not external to the economy. Fertile soils, available and good-quality water, functioning ecosystems and biodiversity constitute natural infrastructure on which production, value chains an...

The importance of social determinants: How inequality makes pandemics more deadly

The importance of social determinants: How inequality makes pandemics more deadly

“The paradox is that a risk that makes us all equal reveals, at the same time, how unequal we are,” reads the book Pandemocracy: A Philosophy of the Coronavirus by Spanish philosoph...

China leads the green ranking of Asian central banks

China leads the green ranking of Asian central banks

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Some currencies are greener than others, and among the Asian ones, the Chinese yuan is currently t...

ECB, from 2026 a climate factor in collateral

ECB, from 2026 a climate factor in collateral

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano At a time when the European Union’s commitment to climate action shows signs of wavering, th...

Africa, over 10 billion pledged for water at AIP Water Investment Summit 2025

Africa, over 10 billion pledged for water at AIP Water Investment Summit 2025

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Seven years after coming close to “Day Zero”, when Cape Town risked running out of wat...

Beyond Profits: Ethical Banks Reshape Europe’s Financial Future

Beyond Profits: Ethical Banks Reshape Europe’s Financial Future

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent years, the European debate on the role of finance has intensified, driven by the need to...

What is the impact of the climate crisis on banks? An interview with Rong Ding

What is the impact of the climate crisis on banks? An interview with Rong Ding

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Floods, fires, and other extreme events: the climate crisis is not only an emergency for people an...

COP29, a half success for the climate finance negotiation

COP29, a half success for the climate finance negotiation

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - The target is 1.3 trillion dollars a year by 2035 to help developing countries mitigat...

Italian Climate Fund: how Italy is really contributing

Italian Climate Fund: how Italy is really contributing

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - Negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) − the post-2025 f...

Nature-based Solutions, the importance of definitions

Nature-based Solutions, the importance of definitions

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After centuries of mindless exploitation of natural resources, humankind has recently gained aware...

COP16 on Biodiversity is over, and it was not a success

COP16 on Biodiversity is over, and it was not a success

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - COP16 in Colombia ended a day later than scheduled, amid a blend of disillusionment an...

Disclosure and reporting, the TNFD at COP16 does not convince everyone

Disclosure and reporting, the TNFD at COP16 does not convince everyone

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali, Colombia - Reporting and knowledge form the foundations of implementing the Global Biod...