The topic of biodiversity loss has been the subject of a vast and growing scientific and economic literature. Species … biodiversity is projected to decrease by a further 10% by 2050. As with biodiversity, the planet has also experienced major losses … paths. This report contributes to that goal by looking at the consequences of the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem …

Sub-national governments have a key role in delivering on national and international biodiversity commitments. Drawing … examines the policy instruments that subnational governments can leverage to deliver positive biodiversity outcomes. The paper … highlights, among other things, the need to: develop clear and measurable biodiversity targets at sub-national level; incorporate …

There are now a large number of valuation studies on the benefits of biodiversity and on ecosystem services, the … research community has focussed on ESS as the main organising framework, with some additional use of the biodiversity concept …

same time, the country’s rich terrestrial and marine biodiversity is subject to high pressure as a result of land …’s efforts to integrate biodiversity into decision-making at different levels of the government and in various sectors of the … biodiversity, for example, through the creation of an enabling institutional and legal framework. However, a number of challenges …

counter these in selected OECD countries. More specifically, the paper begins with an overview of the main biodiversity and …

The use of private capital to finance biodiversity conservation and restoration is a new practice in sustainable … finance. This study sheds light on this new practice. First, we provide a conceptual framework that lays out how biodiversity … types of financing is the "monetization" of biodiversity, that is, the extent to which investments in biodiversity can …

We explore the effects of physical and regulatory risks related to biodiversity loss on economic activity and asset … values. We first develop a news-based measure of aggregate biodiversity risk and analyze how it varies over time. We also … construct and publicly release several firm-level measures of exposure to biodiversity risk, based on textual analyses of firms …

concentrated. Biologists and conservation advocates have advanced a number of arguments both that “biodiversity” is imperiled as …