causal evidence on the economic drivers of biodiversity loss using a novel panel dataset on the types and quantities of … pollution as underlying contributors to contemporaneous biodiversity declines …

This paper summarizes in non-technical terms the economic case for conserving biodiversity, and explains why we cannot … rely on market forces to do this task. It reviews the policy interventions that could help in biodiversity conservation …

Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve … crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a …

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 …

econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …