'Five times the size of London each year': BNP Paribas tots up the biodiversity footprint of its investments

Cecilia Keating
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'Five times the size of London each year': BNP Paribas tots up the biodiversity footprint of its investments

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law

BNP Paribas Asset Management has calculated that its investments are potentially responsible for the degradation of nature in an area equivalent to roughly five times the size of London each year. The...

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