A nature-positive Dutch Financial Sector – a policy paper
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© Jan Wärnbäck / WWF-SwedenThe Dutch financial sector has a big impact on biodiversity – positive, but also negative. It can be enabled to act in a more nature-positive way. The government can stimulate this through rulemaking, its own budget and public investment institutions. Supervisors and central banks can do so by integrating biodiversity in supervisory.
The policy paper A nature-positive Dutch Financial Sector provides suggestions to the Dutch government on how to enable the Dutch financial sector to contribute fully to reaching global biodiversity goals: mobilizing resources to preserve and restore biodiversity, but also to limit financial institutions from doing harm to biodiversity through their financing.
Experts from the Sustainable Finance Lab (SFL) developed this paper. It is an academic think tank whose members are mostly professors from different universities in the Netherlands. The aim of the SFL is a stable and robust financial sector that contributes to an economy that serves humanity without depleting its environment. WWF-NL has funded the report and experts have added their feedback.
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