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PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT BANKS AND BIODIVERSITY - How PDBs can align with the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

15 Jun 2021

• Many PDBs made commitments to align their activities with the goals and principles of the Paris agreement and have now made significant progress SUSTAINABILITY AND PDBS: in integrating climate risks in their investments. [...] TOOLS AND METHODS TO SUPPORT GREENING FINANCE AND FINANCING GREEN An increasingly large range of biodiversity metrics help PDBs to integrate biodiversity considerations and tools is now available to help PDBs improve the in their strategic approaches. [...] with and further support initiatives and processes to • Assess biodiversity risk and footprint across improve spatial data and metrics for finance that can portfolios. [...] This will entail to can work cross-sectorally to bridge gaps in ap- sensitize and embark PDBs’ boards and share- proaches, assumptions and processes between holders, but PDBs have considerable room and the conservation and finance sectors. [...] PDBs could support and build on the innovative and experi- mental work of natural capital labs and ‘accelera- tors’, to find and scale-up mechanisms that work.
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37
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Cameroon

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