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United Nations Finance Initiatives
to Enhance Conservation Biology
Encouraging news in January came from the global environmental community,
illustrating rapidly increasing interest in socially and environmentally
responsible investment -- the United Nations Environment Programme's Finance
Initiative (UNEP FI) and its progeny, the United Nations Principles for
Responsible Investment, are working with Washington, D.C.-based World
Resources Institute (WRI) to explore how finance, investment, and capital
markets are related to biological diversity and ecosystem services. UNEP
FI and WRI currently are scoping donor funding opportunities to support
a multi-year program of work.
In addition, UNEP FI plans to publish a "CEOBrief" during the
second quarter of 2007. This document will present the financial services
business case for addressing loss of species and ecosystems and examine
emerging opportunities for the financial services sector. During 2007,
UNEP FI expects to deliver a corporate biodiversity benchmark tool for
investors to measure company performance in sustaining biological diversity.
For more information, visit www.business-humanrights.org/Home or contact biodiversity@unepfi.org.
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