Notes from the Amazon: Addressing portfolio deforestation risk

The Investor Policy Dialogue on Deforestation (IPDD) is an investor-led engagement initiative established to coordinate a public policy dialogue on halting deforestation and protecting the most vulnerable biomes in the world  - we believe that investing in countries affected by deforestation, contributing to their economic development, and challenging the systemic risk posed by the significant loss of natural forest shows that economic development and protection of the environment need not be mutually exclusive. Deforestation represents a long-term, financially-material portfolio risk, w...