Creating a better life for our planet: Why Attenborough's crusade is also an investment issue

Investors need to get serious on biodiversity

The Netflix documentary 'David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet' may have brought urgency around the loss of biodiversity to the masses, but it is an issue for investors to take notice of too.

The 94-year old naturalist, TV presenter and national treasure used the documentary to demonstrate how humans have 'broken loose' over the course of his lifetime and are in danger of creating 'a place in which we cannot live'. Indeed, humanity has already contributed to the loss of 83% of wild mammals and 50% of plants, mainly over the past five decades. For those who are ambivalent about the environmental impact of this loss of biodiversity, perhaps an economic argument in support of its protection is more convincing. Hampering prosperity According to the UN, more than half of t...