21 July 2022: As biodiversity loss becomes an ever more urgent challenge, financial institutions are looking for ways to quantify the impacts and dependencies of their finance and investment activities on biodiversity.
The Guide provides a comprehensive overview of seven tools for measuring biodiversity currently in use by financial institutions: BFFI, BIA-GBS, CBF, GBSFI, GID, ENCORE and IBAT. It highlights which tools might be the most suitable for specific organizational focus areas, business applications and asset categories and shows the strengths and weaknesses of each. The Guide also details the data and resource requirements for each tool and gives insights on what scopes and pressures are covered.
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