New opportunities abound to get ahead of natural capital risks

Half of the global economy is moderately or highly dependent on natural capital that faces increasing degradation, and climate change alone is expected to reduce global GDP by 10% by 2050The financial impacts of natural capital loss – including from climate change – play out over a long time but the effects are not always slow to materialize, making it an immediate risk concern on environmental and social groundsInvestment in nature-based solutions to repair or avoid the natural capital degradation or mitigate current losses will triple or quadruple in coming years, and some of that financing could fit within existing project finance and provide value to financial institutions who are carefully monitoring the social and natural capital risks to which they are exposed <...