China Dialogue Series on Biodiversity
China dialogue is publishing a series of articles exploring the systemic financial risk posed by biodiversity loss and what financial...
F4B
Dec 10, 20204 min read
GSI features in Climate Transparency Report
The Climate Transparency Report is an annual review of G20 countries’ climate action and their transition to a net-zero emissions...
F4B
Nov 13, 20201 min read
F4B Report: World’s development banks endangering vulnerable ecosystems worth US$1.1 trillion/year
New report from F4B with Vivid Economics and Basic Roots: Aligning Development Finance with Nature's Needs. Development finance...
Charlie Dixon
Nov 9, 20203 min read
GSI in the media roundup
October Environmental Finance - Environmental Finance - Bailout funding should have environmental strings attached IMF Fiscal Monitor -...
F4B
Oct 30, 20202 min read
New Greenness of Stimulus Index Report: Nature’s role in preventing pandemics neglected in US$12.7 t
The latest GSI report shows that economic rescue and recovery funds worldwide have failed to tackle natural world destruction. F4B and...
F4B
Oct 29, 20201 min read
White Paper: A Framework for Systemic Change
The financial system today is funding the destruction of the natural world. To date, the changes recommended to address the problem have...
F4B
Oct 20, 20202 min read
IMF uses green stimulus methodology
F4B's Green Stimulus Index methodology which measures the greenness of country's fiscal response to the crisis, developed with Vivid...
F4B
Oct 15, 20201 min read
F4B Establishes Working Group on Debt and Nature
F4B's project on greening sovereign debt has articulated the case for development of a new instrument: Nature Performance Bonds. There is...
Ashley Gorst
Sep 30, 20201 min read
New “nature performance bond” to tackle twin sovereign debt and biodiversity crises
Press Release: Opportunity for creditors and developing countries to redefine new issuance and restructuring of existing sovereign debt...
F4B
Sep 30, 20203 min read
Financing Nature: closing the biodiversity financing gap
Financing Nature, A new report by our partners The Paulson Institute and The Nature Conservancy (both participants in the debt for nature...
F4B
Sep 25, 20201 min read
G20 leaders take first steps to deliver a green economic recovery from COVID-19 lockdown
The European Union as a whole and Germany and France in particular have taken the first big steps among G20 leading economies towards a...
F4B
Sep 24, 20204 min read
GSI in the media: Few countries living up to Covid 'green recovery' pledges
GSI features in The Guardian: Few countries are living up to their promises of a “green recovery” from the coronavirus crisis, with...
F4B
Sep 23, 20202 min read
Debt and Nature Convening
Finance for Biodiversity (F4B) are convening key stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of financial instruments that aim...
F4B
Sep 11, 20201 min read
Report: Recapitalising sovereign debt
This publication sets out an approach to link the cost of sovereign debt with success in protecting or enhancing a country’s valued,...
F4B
Sep 9, 20202 min read
Green Stimulus Index
The latest version of the Green Stimulus Index, produced in cooperation with F4B and Vivid Economics, has been released. This update of...
F4B
Aug 30, 20201 min read
Report: The Case for a Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
This report by Global Canopy and Vivid Economics outlines why tackling nature-related risks is an urgent priority for the finance sector,...
F4B
Jul 16, 20201 min read
Report: Fintech for Biodiversity
Working with the Green Digital Finance Alliance F4B has begun to explore how digitalisation can enable financing of biodiversity. The...
F4B
Mar 30, 20201 min read