{"id":11663,"date":"2020-11-25T10:42:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T07:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11663"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:20","slug":"why-investors-are-betting-on-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/11\/25\/why-investors-are-betting-on-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why investors are betting on biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those of you whose memories still stretch all the way back to the beforetime \u2014 January and February \u2014 may recall that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/biodiversity-pandemics-and-circle-life\">2020 was to be a &#8220;super year&#8221; for biodiversity<\/a>. Plans called for several global events focusing on the role of nature in mitigating the climate crisis, protecting us against the next pandemic, ensuring adequate food and water, promoting sustainable development and, in essence, maintaining the global economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, things didn\u2019t quite work out that way. Those mega-events largely have been canceled or postponed, but the focus on biodiversity, including its role in the world\u2019s economic system, continues to grow, adapt and evolve, much like natural systems themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It won\u2019t be long until biodiversity becomes yet another mainstay of shareholder proposals during annual meeting season.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Case in point: The past year has brought a burgeoning interest among mainstream investors about the role of biodiversity in mitigating corporate risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why, you ask? There\u2019s an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/programs\/biodiversity\/elements_of_biodiversity\/extinction_crisis\/\">extinction crisis<\/a>\u00a0in progress, and it stands to negatively affect firms across a range of sectors. Companies, after all, rely on countless species, genes and ecosystem services as critical inputs.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/why-investors-are-betting-biodiversity\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you whose memories still stretch all the way back to the beforetime \u2014 January and February \u2014 may recall that&nbsp;2020 was to be a &#8220;super year&#8221; for biodiversity.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}