Charlie Dixon
- Nov 9, 2020
- 3 min
F4B Report: World’s development banks endangering vulnerable ecosystems worth US$1.1 trillion/year
New report from F4B with Vivid Economics and Basic Roots: Aligning Development Finance with Nature's Needs. Development finance...
F4B
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
GSI in the media roundup
October Environmental Finance - Environmental Finance - Bailout funding should have environmental strings attached IMF Fiscal Monitor -...
F4B
- Oct 29, 2020
- 1 min
New Greenness of Stimulus Index Report: Nature’s role in preventing pandemics neglected in US$12.7 t
The latest GSI report shows that economic rescue and recovery funds worldwide have failed to tackle natural world destruction. F4B and...
F4B
- Oct 19, 2020
- 2 min
White Paper: A Framework for Systemic Change
The financial system today is funding the destruction of the natural world. To date, the changes recommended to address the problem have...
F4B
- Oct 14, 2020
- 1 min
IMF uses green stimulus methodology
F4B's Green Stimulus Index methodology which measures the greenness of country's fiscal response to the crisis, developed with Vivid...
Ashley Gorst
- Sep 29, 2020
- 1 min
F4B Establishes Working Group on Debt and Nature
F4B's project on greening sovereign debt has articulated the case for development of a new instrument: Nature Performance Bonds. There is...
F4B
- Sep 29, 2020
- 3 min
New “nature performance bond” to tackle twin sovereign debt and biodiversity crises
Press Release: Opportunity for creditors and developing countries to redefine new issuance and restructuring of existing sovereign debt...
F4B
- Sep 24, 2020
- 1 min
Financing Nature: closing the biodiversity financing gap
Financing Nature, A new report by our partners The Paulson Institute and The Nature Conservancy (both participants in the debt for nature...
F4B
- Sep 23, 2020
- 4 min
G20 leaders take first steps to deliver a green economic recovery from COVID-19 lockdown
The European Union as a whole and Germany and France in particular have taken the first big steps among G20 leading economies towards a...
F4B
- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
GSI in the media: Few countries living up to Covid 'green recovery' pledges
GSI features in The Guardian: Few countries are living up to their promises of a “green recovery” from the coronavirus crisis, with...
F4B
- Sep 10, 2020
- 1 min
Debt and Nature Convening
Finance for Biodiversity (F4B) are convening key stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of financial instruments that aim...
F4B
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Report: Recapitalising sovereign debt
This publication sets out an approach to link the cost of sovereign debt with success in protecting or enhancing a country’s valued,...
F4B
- Aug 30, 2020
- 1 min
Green Stimulus Index
The latest version of the Green Stimulus Index, produced in cooperation with F4B and Vivid Economics, has been released. This update of...
F4B
- Jul 15, 2020
- 1 min
Report: The Case for a Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
This report by Global Canopy and Vivid Economics outlines why tackling nature-related risks is an urgent priority for the finance sector,...
F4B
- Mar 29, 2020
- 1 min
Report: Fintech for Biodiversity
Working with the Green Digital Finance Alliance F4B has begun to explore how digitalisation can enable financing of biodiversity. The...