The Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity sets out the arguments for action on biodiversity and highlights the need to identify and reduce financial flows that directly harm and deplete natural assets.
Finance for Biodiversity (F4B) warmly welcomes the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity for having set out the arguments for action on biodiversity and having stated that there is ‘a need to identify and reduce financial flows that directly harm and deplete natural assets’. The following observations are offered on the reform of the financial system needed to address the crisis in nature:
Having identified some of the elements needed, the report sets up the question of what a comprehensive financial system response to the crisis would look like, and the details of the solutions that should or could be deployed.