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Nature and biodiversity: how pension schemes can play their part? – Columbia Threadneedle Investments

What has been happening and what is on the horizon in the world of pensions.

Posted on Mar 12, 2024

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... Who would have thought that the estimated annual economic worth of the world’s seagrass is US $1tn, or $3.4bn for its wetlands, or $160bn for the pollination services insects provide? An elephant? That’s $2.6m. But each is, in carbon sequestering terms at least – a supposition which neatly highlights the inextricable link between restoring and revitalising nature and biodiversity and solving for climate change.

Indeed, one cannot be addressed without the other, in what is proving to be a mutually reinforcing downward spiral. Indeed, the degradation of biodiversity continues to reduce nature’s ability to absorb greenhouse gases, while climate change, in turn, takes a bigger toll on nature.

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