IFB Partner, Professor Ben Groom of University of Exeter, has co-authored Noisy biodiversity: Assessing the impact of ESG biodiversity ratings on asset prices.
The paper analyses the biodiversity components of ESG ratings to understand whether this disclosure mechanism can affect investment decisions, improve outcomes for biodiversity or lead to better management of nature-based risks.
The abstract and full paper are Volume 236 of Ecological Economics.
This paper is part of the special issue - Biodiversity and Finance: Risk, Disclosure and Double Materiality.