Do investors care about biodiversity?
Nature makes its way into Finance.
In recent research, Prof. Alexander Wagner from the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich and co-authors show that investors have neglected the biodiversity footprint until recently. However, this has changed since the Kunming Declaration at the UN Conference on Biodiversity (COP15) in October 2021. Since then, companies with a larger footprint have delivered or been required to deliver particularly high returns. The results suggest that investors began to demand a risk premium at the prospect of and uncertainty about future biodiversity regulations. The question now is how competently companies are dealing with this biodiversity crisis.
(Source: Oec. magazine issue #19)
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