Integrating Finance and Biodiversity | Nature positive future

Embedding biodiversity in financial decision making

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.

Phase II funding was announced in March 2024.

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What is IFB?

IFB is developing the knowledge, tools and a skilled community to embed the value of biodiversity in financial decision making across sectors.

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The Flagships of Phase II

Phase II of IFB comprises three Flaship inititives that are underpinned by underpinned by a Strategic Coordination and Integration Hub.

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Could you or your organisation benefit from the outputs of IFB, or could you contribute to it? If so, we would like you to make contact.

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Phase II funding announced

The Integrating Finance and Biodiversity (IFB) Programme has received a significant boost in the form of £3 million follow-on funding from the Natural Environment Research Council.

Registration is open

Registration is now open for the third World Biodiversity Forum in Davos, 16 - 21 June 2024. The session, Biodiversity Finance for a Nature Positive Future: Innovations, Challenges, and Opportunities, is organised by IFB Partner, Dr Franziska Schrodt of the University of Nottingham.

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New report: Nature degradation could cause a 12% loss to UK GDP

The Integrating Finance and Biodiversity for a Nature Positive Future programme is jointly delivered by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Innovate UK (IUK).