This is a complex topic, where environmental, financial and ethical considerations intersect. It ultimately raises a fundamental question: can we, both from a philosophical and methodological point of view, assess the value of nature?
Can We Assess Companies’ Ecological Debt? And How?
Biodiversity Risks: One of Our Economies’ Next Big Challenges
While, according to the World Economic Forum, half of the global GDP is dependent on nature, biodiversity is experiencing an extinction that challenges the resilience of our economies. Deterioration of air, water and soil quality, decline in ecosystem services such as pollination: the physical impacts of this loss of biodiversity are already putting our economies under pressure. As regulations evolve, transition risks linked to the move towards an economy that takes greater account of biodiversity protection could materialise in the near future, with significant consequences for investors.
Candriam’s Edge: Quantifying Companies’ Ecological Debt
Candriam already integrates biodiversity at the core of its sustainable investment strategies: biodiversity footprint, proprietary model to assess biodiversity risks, geographical model to localise precisely companies’ biodiversity-related impacts and dependencies…
Today, we are going a step further and proposing a method to quantify companies’ “ecological debt”.
Understanding and assessing issuers’ biodiversity-related impacts and dependencies is essential to minimise negative externalities, anticipate risks, and protect our clients’ portfolios.
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Alix Chosson, Elouan Heurard, Biodiversity, ESG, SRI2030, INVESTING TOMORROW: Meeting urgent environmental and social challenges
Launched in autumn 2024, the Think Tank "2030, Investir Demain" was created at the initiative of L'Info Durable (ID) and L'Agefi media, with the ambition of uniting financial players around the major challenges of sustainable finance. -
Philippe Dehoux, Lucia Meloni, Fixed Income, ESG, SRI, Climate Action, Biodiversity, Water, Sovereign SustainabilityGenerating Impact in the Bond Space – But How?
Impact investments have kept rising over the past decades, reaching $1.6 trillion USD according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) – that is $ 1.6 trillion USD in assets allocated toward solutions supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. -
Alix Chosson, Elouan Heurard, ESG, SRI, BiodiversityCOP16: too little, too late.
Two years after the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Agreement, the progress on global biodiversity goals remains mixed. Despite commitments, a limited number of countries (44 out of 196) have submitted their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans. The parties have agreed to submit their plans as soon as possible, with a global review scheduled for COP17 and COP19. -
Research Paper, Alix Chosson, Elouan Heurard, BiodiversityBiodiversity: ready to take up the challenge of biodiversity integration?
Biodiversity challenges are multifaceted, involving intricate ecological, geographical, and social dimensions. Acknowledging this, Candriam’s biodiversity framework allows for a granular and effective approach of biodiversity integration. -
BiodiversityBiodiversity at Candriam
Our fragile natural ecosystems are degrading at a high pace, compromising the survival of many species, and, by ripple effects, that of many companies that depend on it. It is high time investors consider the risks borne by their portfolios because of biodiversity loss. As a sustainable investor, we are at the forefront of biodiversity integration and will accompany you on this journey. -
Biodiversity, Alix Chosson, Elouan HeurardCOP16 : Final boarding call for Biodiversity
The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) will be held in Cali, Colombia, from October 21th to November 1st. -
Biodiversity, ESG, SRI, Marie Niemczyk, Alix Chosson, Research PaperIs Biodiversity an investment issue?
Investors who fail to consider biodiversity in their portfolios increase the global problem, in turn reducing the growth potential and increasing the risk to their own investments. These two connected systems chase each other in a downward spiral. -
Biodiversity, ESG, SRINext Stop: Biodiversity
Our planet’s biodiversity – the variety of species of animals and plants – is collapsing. Given that about half of the global GDP is highly dependent on nature, the consequences can be grave.