November 2024
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Integrating Finance and Biodiversity for a Nature Positive Future is a £7 million programme co-led by NERC and Innovate UK to develop the solutions needed to embed the values of biodiversity in financial decision making. 
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FEATURED ARTICLE

IFB Leaders contribute to landmark IAPB Framework
at COP16

IFB Programme Leaders Professor Franziska Schrodt and Professor Richard Field have contributed to the newly released Framework for High-Integrity Biodiversity Credit Markets, published by the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits (IAPB).
Read more and download the report

Lunchtime discussion on the new IAPB Framework
5th Dec

Leaders of the IFB Programme and the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes are joining forces for a lunchtime discussion on the IAPB Framework - one of the major publications (see featured article above) to emerge from COP16. 
Further details and booking available here
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FEATURED OPPORTUNITY

Rolling call for IFB Business Fellows
On an ongoing basis we are recruiting IFB Business Fellows, each with significant experience in the finance sector and an interest in applying biodiversity data within financial decision-making. 
Further details available here

FREE 16-week coaching programme for SMEs
Industrial estate in southern England.

IFB Partner, Dr Robyn Owen of Middlesex University, together with practice partners, is recruiting SME start-ups for a free 16-week coaching programme to help attract investment in nature-positive business solutions and to boost investor confidence in sustainable impact.
Further details available here

Next podcast release 3rd December

Building capacity and innovation

Our next podcast will be available on 3rd December when we will be speak to Theme Leader, Dr Joanne Chamberlain, about building capacity in finance and biodiversity through secondments, innovation labs, and events to showcase nature-positive finance. 

Did you miss the first podcast?

Greening Finance for Nature is a research flagship within the Integrating Finance and Biodiversity Programme. It takes aim at the decision-making processes of financial institutions such as banks and asset management companies. Their decisions can impact nature adversely, and this needs to change.

In this first episode, we talk to its lead, Dr Nicola Ranger, Director of the Global Finance and Economy Group at the Environmental Change Institute within the University of Oxford. Listen by clicking the button below, or on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Listen to the first IFB Podcast

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Integrating Finance and Biodiversity for a Nature Positive Future is a £7 million programme co-led by NERC and Innovate UK to develop the solutions needed to embed the values of biodiversity in financial decision making. This investment will build a national multi-stakeholder community that can drive the development of knowledge, tools and skills to incorporate biodiversity-related risks and opportunities into planning, reporting and investment decisions for the finance and business sectors.
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