Biodiversity loss - the next big challenge for investors

Several recent reports from global agencies have confirmed that investors’ focus on minimising the effects of climate change has come at the expense of ignoring perhaps an even greater risk – the loss of biological diversity. A report from the asset consultant Mercer late last year, for example, said that investors have dedicated relatively limited time to biodiversity risk, compared to the attention they have given to climate-change risk. A UNPRI [Principles for Responsible Inves…