'Voluntary action is not enough': 150 top investors demand ambitious global biodiversity treaty

COP15

Financial giants ramp up pressure on negotiators at COP15 with call for clear mandate in treaty requiring finance sector to align activities with nature goals

Scores of financial firms, banks, and institutional investors representing more than $24tr in assets worldwide have today called on world leaders to adopt an ambitious global nature treaty that establishes clear guidelines for the financial sector to ensure biodiversity loss is reversed. Leading firms from across the investment industry have today backed a statement issued at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal that calls for a global treaty that sets out a firm mandate for nations to require their financial sectors to align activities with global goals to halt and reverse nature l...