The market is lack investment products focuses on biodiversity.

While COP 26 Glasgow (31 Oct to 12 Nov 2021) garnering headlines, but it has an overlooked, COP15, which focuses on biodiversity, which could become a new frontier in sustainable investment. Biodiversity loss is threatening around a million plant and animal species, food security, human health, and economic output. The ecosystem services delivered by biodiversity, are worth an estimated $125-140 trillion per year globally – or one and a half times global GDP.

It is also an issue for business, as it can make huge financial impacts. Hence, solving the climate crisis is necessary but not sufficient. And just addressing the negative impacts on biodiversity to reduce losses may not be sufficient both in terms of ecosystem preservation and for the financial sustainability?of portfolios. ESG investing is welcome but it is too focused on climate change or a limited number of UNSDGs. Unlike climate change, biodiversity is much more complicated. As per my knowledge, we do not yet have the tools and models to measure what needs to be done to improve biodiversity.

Currently, the asset manager adopts several ESG data specialists, including Sustainalytics, Trucost, ISS ESG and ICEBERG DATA LAB to capturing the material impacts of food companies, their suppliers and their customers in order to decide asset allocation for biodiversity portfolio.