Businesses sometimes engage in activities that may harm nature and they may also depend upon natural resources. These impacts can manifest across the entire value chain. Our framework to assess the exposure of lending and investment portfolios to biodiversity risks measures a company’s impact on biodiversity, its dependence on natural capital and its governance of biodiversity risks.
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