An Investor's Guide to Nature and Biodiversity Risks and Impacts
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December 15, 2023
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For many investors, the biggest challenge around accounting for biodiversity risk is figuring out where to start. Biodiversity loss has many drivers with many variables, and proper analysis requires asset-location data, an extra layer of complexity. Without standardized metrics to answer key questions, investors are often forced to rely on emerging conceptual metrics that can yield widely differing results.
This guide, its checklist and our Nature and Biodiversity Metrics Framework are designed to help investors start identifying which questions to ask and which metrics to consider as they begin incorporating biodiversity into their investment process.
MSCI Nature and Biodiversity Metrics Framework
Source: MSCI ESG Research, December 2023
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