ENCORE: UN launches new tool to help banks and investors gauge their exposure to biodiversity destruction

Cecilia Keating
clock • 4 min read

Free-to-use module is launched by UN-backed Natural Capital Finance Alliance, as Green Finance Institute publishes recommendations for how UK finance can help develop a nature-positive economy

A new tool has been launched to help banks and investors gauge the extent to which their agriculture and mining portfolios are driving species extinction and ecological destruction. The ENCORE service...

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