Iconic ecosystems are regions or habitats that are globally recognized for their ecological significance & cultural or historical importance.
Indigenous and community lands and forests are associated with lower rates of deforestation and overall better biodiversity conservation.
Marine and coastland ecosystems are crucial for sustaining biodiversity, regulating the climate, and preserving community livelihoods.
Six months after the UN Biodiversity Conference, 74 civil society organizations call on financial institutions to protect biodiversity and take action in implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework Six months since its adoption, banks and financiers have yet to develop concrete plans to implement…
The briefing paper explains why it is important for banks and financiers to prohibit direct and indirect financing to harmful activities which negatively impact or alter free flowing rivers.
The paper, called “Protecting biodiversity from harmful financing: Intact primary and vulnerable secondary forests,” details how banks and financiers are driving forest degradation and deforestation by financing sectors tied to high forest risks.
The civil society letter highlights China’s commitments to protecting biodiversity, and provides concrete recommendations for how to do so.
Within the next few decades, one million species are estimated to be at risk of extinction1, in which the bio- diversity crisis is now recognized as a global crisis in its own right.
National parks and other sub-nationally recognized areas are well established mechanisms for protecting places with high biodiversity.
The Banks and Biodiversity Initiative advocates that banks and financiers strengthen their bio- diversity policies and practices.