On January 27, 2021 at 10:00 CET, Finance for Biodiversity is holding an online event "Aligning finance with nature’s needs, in China and beyond".
This year, the climate and biodiversity agendas are set to come together on the global stage as never before. With China hosting its first ever multilateral environmental summit (CBD COP15), this is an important moment to mark and create space for discussion on how China can engage.
A key lever for changing environmental outcomes is changing how money is spent. Sustainable investing is making waves across all asset classes in financial markets. China has been a leader of the global Green Finance agenda.
In partnership with the Finance for Biodiversity Initiative (F4B), China Dialogue has published a new series exploring the systemic financial risk posed by biodiversity loss, how financial institutions have a unique responsibility to address it, what they are already doing, and the financial opportunities involved.
Biodiversity is not considered in the vast majority of financial decisions taken globally today. As a result, financial institutions are increasingly exposing themselves to risks both from harming nature, and as a result of their dependence on nature benefits that are vulnerable.
In this webinar, F4B draws upon China’s leadership on Green Finance to explore what leadership could look like around the nexus of biodiversity and finance, where progress is being made, and how further action could help deliver results.
With introductions from Kevin Gallagher (Boston University) & Deborah Lehr (Paulson Institute)
Chaired by Isabel Hilton (CEO, China Dialogue).
Panellists include:
Marianne Haahr, Green Digital Finance Alliance
Bernice Lee, Hoffmann Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy
Ma Jun, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE)
Dr. Christoph Nedopil Wang, IIGF Green Belt and Road Initiative Center