Biodiversity crisis

The Anthropocene era, still a subject of ongoing scientific debate regarding its exact commencement, is characterized by significant impact of human activities on the environment and society. This impact becomes evident through unregulated resource extraction, greenhouse gas emissions, intensive pastoral farming, transportation systems, and deforestation.

While governments and companies have been the focus of attention on the issue to conserve nature, actors in the finance sector have largely evaded scrutiny until recently. This is according…