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Connecting Finance and Natural Capital: Supplement to the Natural Capital Protocol launched

On 24 April the Natural Capital Coalition launched their Finance Sector Supplement to the Natural Capital Protocol in Hong Kongmehr ›
Erweiterung für das Naturkapitalprotokoll geplant..

Die Erweiterung beschreibt Anforderungen und Methoden für Finanzinstitutionen bei der Berücksichtigung von Naturkapital.mehr ›
Neuer Name: "Natural Capital Declaration" heißt jetzt "Natural Capital Finance Alliance"

Unter dem neuen Namen hat die Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA) eine Pressemitteilung veröffentlicht, die die Namensänderung erläutert.mehr ›
Natural Capital Protocol veröffentlicht

Am 13. Juli 2016 hat die Natural Capital Coalition ein Rahmenwerk zur Erfassung und Bewertung von Naturkapital für Unternehmen veröffentlicht. mehr ›
Natural and Social Capital Accounting: An introduction for finance teams

This guide serves as an introduction for finance teams on how to align finance thinking with long term environmental and societal trends. It provides a framework to embed this into your decision making.mehr ›

World's largest sovereign wealth fund takes stand against deforestation

Norway's Government Pension Fund Global — the world's largest sovereign wealth fund — is adopting standards to avoid investing in companies linked to tropical deforestation, sending a strong signal that forest destruction is not an acceptable practice for responsible businesses,...mehr ›
Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement, Reputationsgewinn und Wettbewerbsvorteil – Unternehmen und die Chancen der Naturkapitalbilanzierung

Die neue Studie „Wie Unternehmen ihr Naturkapital ökonomisch bewerten“ des Global Nature Fund (GNF) zeigt, dass Unternehmen sich verstärkt mit der Bilanzierung des Naturkapitals auseinandersetzen. Angetrieben durch internes Nachhaltigkeits- und Risikomanagement erfassen und...mehr ›

Toolkits für Unternehmen, NGOs und Finanzindustrie

Drei Toolkits geben Empfehlungen, wie sich Akteure aus Privatwirtschaft, NGOs und Finanzindustrie an "Naturkapitalmärkten" beteiligen können.mehr ›



Webinar "Natural capital markets for watershed services - Actors, Mechanisms, and Impacts" - Event review

On Wednesday, February 16th 2014, the third webinar of the project „Natural Capital Markets“ took place. During the webinar, Joost Bakker (Natural Capital Markets) together with Nathaniel Carrol and Genevieve Bennet (both Ecosystem Marketplace) focused on the use of market...mehr ›



Green Bond Principles 2014

Voluntary Process Guidelines for Issuing Green Bonds. Green Bonds enable capital-raising and investment for new and existing projects with environmental benefits. Recent activity indicates that the market for Green Bonds is developing rapidly.mehr ›
"Ausgleichsmaßnahmen und Offsets – ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und den USA" - Veranstaltungsrückschau

Am Donnerstag, den 23. Januar 2014 wurde ein erstes 1 ½-stündiges Webinar im Rahmen des Projektes „Natural Capital Markets“ durchgeführt. Im Webinar wurde der deutsche Ansatz der Kompensationsmaßnahmen mit den beiden größten Märkten für Ausgleichsmaßnahmen in den USA...mehr ›



Conservation Finance - Moving beyond donor funding toward an investor-driven approach

This report analyzes the investor perspective in conservation finance and attempts to bring together the demand side (i.e., the need for conservation funding) and the supply side (i.e., the availability of investments with conservation impact) because so far, not much attention...mehr ›
Online Guide to Banking and Sustainability

The Online Guide to Banking & Sustainability is a tool to help bank employees actively integrate ESG issues into their work by learning from best practice case studies. mehr ›
Valuation without action? On the use of economic valuations of ecosystem services

Economic valuations have raised high expectations to influence policy and alleviate the accelerating degradation of the environment. This was reaffirmed by the publication of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) report, during the Tenth Conference of the Parties...mehr ›
Impact investors: looking for more than a financial return on investment

Africa, the troubled continent—riddled with war, stricken by disease, handicapped by corruption: This picture may have once hampered private sector growth, but this is rapidly changing. Foreign investors are looking to Africa as a land of opportunity, while a growing group of...mehr ›
Sovereign Bonds: Spotlight on ESG Risks

Sovereign bonds issued by developed countries had long been considered a safe haven for institutional investors’ assets. The euro crisis has reminded us that the debt of the highest-rated countries can be volatile. The PRI’s Sovereign Fixed Income Working Group set out to...mehr ›
Report “Bonds and Climate Change – the State of the Market in 2013“

Climate Bonds Initiative carries out important research on climate-themed bonds. The last report has now been released. The aim is to reduce the cost of capital for climate related investments, while at the same time seeing the creation of safe and secure investments suitable to...mehr ›
Protecting themselves from political Risks: Forest Carbon Projects

To reduce risks from expropriation, war or civil unrest, agencies like the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) or the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) provide protection. For example, a few years after US-based land-use...mehr ›
Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE): Named „one of the World’s Best Sustainability Ideas” by Forbes

The Sustainable Stock Exchanges is an initiative aimed at exploring how exchanges can work together with regulators, investors and companies to enhance corporate transparency.mehr ›
Leading Investment Firms: Advanced Focus on Carbon Accounting and Carbon Risk Management is necessary

The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and a group of leading investors initiated an investor briefing which might lead to a new guideline for exposing greenhouse gas emissions in the portfolios of financiers. mehr ›