'We need to act now': Can COP15 bridge the nature finance chasm?

Cecilia Keating
clock • 7 min read
Significantly more money is spent on nature-negative activities each year than schemes that protect biodiversity, UNEP warns | Credit: iStock
Image:

Significantly more money is spent on nature-negative activities each year than schemes that protect biodiversity, UNEP warns | Credit: iStock

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met

UN environment summits are increasingly about money. Namely, which countries are responsible for mobilising 'green' finance, and under what terms, which nations qualify to be on the receiving end of this...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

More on Biodiversity

'Sleepwalking into collapse': Treasury urged to diffuse 'economic time bomb' that threatens £1.5tr of natural capital

'Sleepwalking into collapse': Treasury urged to diffuse 'economic time bomb' that threatens £1.5tr of natural capital

Workforce 2030: Professionals body CIEEM urges Treasury to invest £650m in ecology skills and projects across UK to restore nature and boost economic growth

Michael Holder
clock 27 October 2025 • 5 min read
BSI unveils new nature and biodiversity net gain standards

BSI unveils new nature and biodiversity net gain standards

Standards body debuts two complimentary standards and guidance to support development of corporate nature strategies and biodiversity net gain projects

BusinessGreen staff
clock 27 October 2025 • 3 min read
Food and Drink Federation launches new Nature Handbook

Food and Drink Federation launches new Nature Handbook

New guide to help food and drink firms deliver on global goal to reverse nature loss by 2030

James Murray
clock 24 October 2025 • 2 min read