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Red Lines for a Green Future: Exploring Exclusionary Approaches to Protecting Biodiversity and People

A new report from Friends of the Earth US explores how China's ECR framework can inspire global financial institutions, particularly Chinese banks, to adopt exclusionary financing policies in their investments.

Financing for Biodiverse Futures? Key Considerations for Financial Institutions to Stop and Reverse Biodiversity Loss

A new report from Friends of the Earth US explains how banks and financiers must align with the GBF and develop a biodiversity plan.

Iconic, Transboundary Ecosystems

Iconic ecosystems are regions or habitats that are globally recognized for their ecological significance & cultural or historical importance.

Areas Where the Free, Prior & Informed Consent of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Have Not Been Obtained

Indigenous and community lands and forests are associated with lower rates of deforestation and overall better biodiversity conservation.

Protected and At-Risk Marine and Coastal Ecosystems

Marine and coastland ecosystems are crucial for sustaining biodiversity, regulating the climate, and preserving community livelihoods.

How Should Financiers Align with the Global Biodiversity Framework?

Six months after the UN Biodiversity Conference, 74 civil society organizations call on financial institutions to protect biodiversity and take action in implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework  Six months since its adoption, banks and financiers have yet to develop concrete plans to implement…

On World Water Day, new briefing paper calls on banks and financiers to prohibit harmful financing to free flowing rivers

The briefing paper explains why it is important for banks and financiers to prohibit direct and indirect financing to harmful activities which negatively impact or alter free flowing rivers.

On International Forests Day, new briefing paper urges banks and financiers to exclude harmful financing that negatively impacts primary and vulnerable secondary forests

The paper, called “Protecting biodiversity from harmful financing: Intact primary and vulnerable secondary forests,” details how banks and financiers are driving forest degradation and deforestation by financing sectors tied to high forest risks.

90 Civil Society Groups Call on China to Protect Biodiversity in its Overseas Investments

The civil society letter highlights China’s commitments to protecting biodiversity, and provides concrete recommendations for how to do so.

New briefing paper urges banks and financiers to make habitats with threatened and endemic species, including Key Biodiversity Areas, off limits to harmful financing

Within the next few decades, one million species are estimated to be at risk of extinction1, in which the bio- diversity crisis is now recognized as a global crisis in its own right.