Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth – it is nature in all its forms and interactions, from genes, to species, to entire ecosystems such as rainforests and coral reefs. It is essential for human life: the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat all rely on it.
It is also fundamental to our global economy: roughly half of the world's GDP is highly or moderately dependent on biodiversity. But humanity is destructing biodiversity at a scale that is pushing nature to the verge of breakdown. Investors have a role to play and the capacity to create change, but to do so they need more information. How can we measure biodiversity loss and what is the cause? Measuring biodiversity is a complex task that cannot be figured out in one simple sum, but the following are good indicators. Humanity's demand on nature now exceeds what our planet ca...
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