SIF 2023: Nature-related risks cannot be 'afterthought'

Must be tackled together

Investors must not regard nature-related risks in their investment portfolios as an ‘afterthought’ as the risks posed by the loss of the natural environment and climate change are ‘interlinked’, delegates at the Sustainable Investment Festival heard.

Speaking yesterday (15 June) during a panel at the event, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) co-chair David Craig said investors may be focusing the majority of their time on climate risks before tackling nature-related risks, but the risks of climate change and the risks to the natural environment go hand-in-hand and investors "cannot afford" to deal with them separately. He said: "Mother Earth does not recognise these separate initiatives; it is a holistic system of atmospheric pollution, atmospheric treatment of water, land and the oceans. Climate and our atmosph...