Caroline Lucas: Financial institutions must stress test impact of biodiversity loss on financial risk indicators

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has called for regulatory financial frameworks to "choose nature" and take financial institutions to task on measuring and reporting the impact of their investment activities on biodiversity. Speaking at the UKSIF Autumn Conference 2022, Lucas took aim at the government's commitment to nature, describing nature as "the forgotten cousin in this whole debate". "I welcome the focus on climate but the other side of climate action, and intrinsically linked to it, is action on nature. The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world." With th...