Week 15: Investing in biodiversity

When we ask customers at The Big Exchange what issues they are most concerned about (and therefore where we see they want investments to focus most on making a difference), they are overwhelmingly clear. Over 75% of investors want investable and legitimate solutions to the biodiversity and ecosystem crisis* that we are facing. It’s consistently the top issue worrying people in our community. 

Many fund managers that incorporate biodiversity will take different strategies – some will have it as the sole focus of the fund, others may have it as a theme built into their overall strategy. Those funds that are focusing on this issue will use various ways to look at companies in which they might invest. It might be in mitigating biodiversity risk, finding new solutions to the environmental crisis or even engagement around biodiversity issues. 

We’ve written a handy guide about Investing in Biodiversity and what you need to know. There are some handy proposed actions you can take and it’ll guide you through some of the ways you can invest in biodiversity. 

Our action for this week is to make a list of the things you invest in - these can be actual financial investments you make, ways you spend your money and things you spend time on. How many of these things are investments in biodiversity? 

A second sneaky action: 

At the bottom of our article highlighted above we’ve put a link in for the UN’s Act Now campaign. Head there for inspiration around ways you can take action. https://www.un.org/en/actnow. You’ll be surprised by how many of the things you can do, or are already doing. 

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