Biodiversity Loss: An Introduction for Risk Professionals

In recent years, biodiversity loss has become an urgent and systemic environmental risk due to its impact on global food security, public health and the resilience of natural life. In this new report, GARP Risk Institute examines the nature of biodiversity loss, its close relationship to climate change, and what it means for today's risk professionals.

Key Questions Answered:

• What is biodiversity and why is it important?
• How are financial firms considering environmental risks beyond climate change?
• What are the financial risks of biodiversity loss?
• Why has less attention been paid to biodiversity than to climate change?
• What are the frameworks for measuring and disseminating biodiversity?