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Canadian extractive sector
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The Finance Sector and Natural Capital - Catalyzing Acton
1. The Finance Sector & Natural Capital: Catalyzing Action
July 14th 2010,
F&C Management Limited
A number of entrepreneurial initiatives are today seeking the transformation of the financial sector to
incorporate ecosystem services and biodiversity—referred to as natural capital—into investment
portfolios and decision-making processes. Volans identified some of these innovators in ‘The
Biosphere Economy’1, a piece of innovation research with an agenda for the financial sector, which
argued that: ‘changes are underway in terms of how corporate assets and liabilities are calculated,
potentially influencing how natural assets find their way onto balance sheets and corporate accounts.
UNEP-FI, as a global partnership between the finance sector and UNEP, represents almost 20 years of
collaboration to improve the sector’s understanding of environmental and social impacts on financial
performance.
The meeting, which was jointly organized by Volans and UNEP-FI and hosted by F&C Asset
Management at their HQ in London, explored how a generation of change-makers and innovative
solutions can scale up their impact by working together with forward-looking financial institutions. This
report outlines key elements of the innovation agenda for the finance sector in relation to natural
capital, as well as a number of trends and opportunities that we aim to leverage going forward.
1. A changing agenda for financial institutions:
We now understand the intellectual argument that natural capital provides significant value to society and the
economy, but is not recognised or accounted for accordingly. But what does this mean for the finance sector?
The meeting began to explore the type of risks that financial institutions should begin to think about when it
comes to natural capital, these are:
• Credit risks: natural capital associated risks that can cause the default of investments, inaccurate
information on counterparts. Collateral risk is central as banks don’t have the means of recognising the
loss of natural capital and what this means for their investments.
• Operational risks: is most serious when it comes to the acceleration of natural disasters or the effects
of ecological degradation on business losses and outputs, such as agriculture.
• Reputation risks: being associated with financing a company that is involved in major ecological
liabilities. “Once a financial institution loses its reputation” a participant said, “it is very hard to build it
back up.”
While the TEEB initiative (i.e. the 2010 UN-sponsored study on “The Economics of Ecosystems and
Biodiversity”) inherently recognises these risks, the sector will have to pioneer fundamental changes in how it
estimates and analyses risks. Within the financial sector, some will be hit harder than others. The insurance
sector represents a particular case where exposure to natural capital risk is more pronounced, due to
accelerating climate and environmental risks.
The lack of agreement on valuation mechanisms and metrics are a barrier, but banks today use a wide range
of instruments. We need to bring these together in a systematic way in a financial sector toolkit for natural
capital, which also identifies good examples (i.e. the financial instruments, the institutional processes, and the
valuation mechanisms used), tests them against scalability and then communicate them broadly.
1
www.biosphereeconomy.com
2. 2. Key innovation trends in the sector
Investors can play a forward-thinking role in treating natural capital issues as drivers of shareholder value.
There are five areas where some innovation is taking place, and where acceleration efforts are needed by the
industry:
(a) Accounting & Reporting:
• There are several models beginning to propose solutions to the disclosure and reporting of natural capital
accounts but these efforts need to engage with accounting bodies and financial regulators to experiment
with more structural changes (e.g. changes in Bloomberg terminals). One issue is that the public sector
doesn’t report, and while public sector accounting standards are starting to appear, it is a very slow
process. Reporting is also reliant on underpinning standards and there is a need for standardisation in how
natural capital accounts are measured and integrated to balance sheets. NGOs and investors have
different ways of doing this, making it difficult to know if we are comparing like with like. What might the
role of an organisation like NERC be here, or the role of international accounting bodies?
(b) Benchmarking:
• The Natural Value Initiative has been a leading example of benchmarking, and has found that only 1 out of
31 companies analysed in the food, beverage and tobacco sectors, were particularly mature in their
approach to natural capital. Benchmarking companies in the responsible investment research industry are
developing fast, but they are trying to cover a large amount of companies with predominantly publicly
available information. Major financial companies are now getting into this space (e.g. Bloomberg, Reuters-
Asset4, Risk Analytics). There needs to be attention to what is being benchmarked, too, as different
companies are good at different elements.
(c) Valuation and Risk:
• Participants identified a number of entry points into the financial sector, with the main focus being on the
externalities of the business clients. The group underscored the difficulty of getting policies embedded in
large banks, beyond what so far has been kept within the boundaries of project finance (e.g. Equator
Principles). UNEP-FI has been leading discussions on redefining fiduciary responsibilities, and innovation
is emerging in that asset management funds are experimenting with ecological criteria to assess the risk of
country bonds. At present UN PRI and UNEP FI are working on a universal ownership report, quantifying
environmental externalities for portfolio investors.
(d) Awareness:
• Reputation is still the leading driver of change in the sector. Examples of ecosystem failures as drivers of
change are rare. Civil society and NGOs are playing an important role in highlighting the issue – but their
strategies could also be more effective at targeting the right stories around risk and opportunity for the
finance sector. It is vital to bring an operational risk perspective as well as hard business case numbers to
the story and campaigning.
(e) Knowledge barriers:
• There is a need to accelerate the translation of the biodiversity and natural capital issue into business
language and cultures. An older generation of financers today does not understand or relate to the
language of ecologists, climatologists and earth scientists. In some areas, the type of scientific data that is
developed can cause financial analysts discomfort, confusion and apathy. NERC for example is looking at
collaboration between the academic sector and finance sector on biodiversity information. There is also an
urgent need to bridge the worlds of science-based policy on ‘ecological infrastructures’ (i.e. what is the
optimum level of ecological balance?) and financial investment (i.e. how does this ecological equilibrium
translate onto economic and financial values).
3. 3. Catalyzing collaborative innovation
Building on the Biosphere Economy agenda for the finance sector this ‘design session’ explored how different
organizations can work together, as well as build on existing solutions to create impact in the finance sector.
The session involved 3 groups, each with a specific innovation focus, which were tasked with identifying
existing solutions and coming up with a set of measures (which they’d be comfortable advancing and working
on over time) to further develop and implement changes.
The innovation agendas that participants were interested in pursuing were:
1) Business Education on Natural Assets
The thinking on externalities in general, and natural capital in particular, needs to be taken up by the main
schools where business leaders and financial analysts are trained. There is a need for a new language, more
and better evidence and solutions proposed and taught, including business cases, which can become iconic
examples of business strategy and organization.
Preferred actions (Organisations interested in collaborating on this agenda in italics)
• Bring training schemes on this issue to business schools and implement other training channels such as
internal training schemes for companies.
• Design “Master Classes”, peer to peer learning materials and courses; design and develop teaching
case studies and ensure that courses at business schools adopt them, or create new courses (PWC, WWF
and UNEP-FI)
• NGOs and management consultancies can play a role in providing input to the design of the toolkit and
teaching materials – but creative engagement with business scholars is critical.
• Translating business language on natural capital for the general public (Ecosystem Marketplace)
2) Corporate Valuation and Transparency:
The group focused on turning externalities into asset valuation criteria, advance robust disclosure and
transparency issues in connection to natural capital, as well as metrics that establish a clear connection to
shareholder value. Some issues that the group recognizes as barriers are:
Preferred actions (Organisations interested in collaborating on this agenda in italics):
• Work on the convergence of existing valuation work on particular externalities or sectors to showcase
their applicability (TEEB, F&C, Schroders, UN-PRI, Nyenrode).
o Extend this work to investors, bring this into the mainstream (Robeco, UN PRI, VBDO, GRI)
o Learn from what has already been done around the carbon market (Ecosecurities)
• Work with institutions that gather biophysical data to develop tools that allow a financial firm to overlay
investor information on it. Build a partnership that includes data managers, software providers and
research institutes. Potential for shadow reporting (FFD)
• Pilot prototypes together with FIs who wish to be leaders in making externalities a routine part of
corporate valuation.
• Valuation Techniques (separate from disclosure): develop guidance on how you value natural capital
fairly; engage the International Accounting Standards Board (possible interest from ICAEW)
o Integrate financial and non financial information (GRI, possibly WBCSD and WRI)
o XBRL- driver to standardise financial information (Kurt Rahmin)
o Take ESG work, and integrate it within internal valuation (Robeco)
• Sectoral Modelling (NVI, Rabobank, possibly WRI)
• Experimentation with a biodiversity fund (EIB, NVI)
4. 3) New Risk Models
There is a lack of understanding of how ecological considerations are being used in practise when assessing
the long-term risk of investments. Increasingly there are sectors that are looking at natural capital risks (e.g.
fisheries and financing of vessels, or tropical cyclone high-risk areas) but which are not necessarily looking at
it through this lens.
Preferred actions (Organisations interested in collaborating on this agenda in italics):
• A partnership proposal was devised: UN PRI, UNEP FI and IFC could possibly collaborate to stimulate
PRI signatories to ask Equator Principle Financial Institutions to disclose how they have actually
implemented the EPs in practice.
• Road test a potential risk model on fisheries or a couple of other key high-impact (or highly dependant).
sectors. Work on this model with a bank and use the findings as a benchmark for other banks and
investors in those sectors, which would like to alter their risk models based on the outcome of such an
exercise (UNEP FI).
• Forest Insurance: Potential to connect the risk model in forest asset classes to insurance premiums.
NERC and Forestry could work together in better understanding the asset class, and how natural capital
considerations are altering the insurance ability of this asset class.
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4. Next steps:
Volans and UNEP-FI want to help advance some of these areas of potential innovation, building on their
complementary skills; Volans in the design and implementation of collaborative innovation processes, and
UNEP-FI as a recognized industry leadership platform from which to affect this.
In addition to the areas of activity where some of the participants would like to remain actively involved in
design and development, a number of additional action points were suggested:
• Peter Carter from the European Investment Bank will bring together a small group to exchange views
on the issue of valuation of biodiversity, and how to bring geophysical data together with financial
information to inform decisions.
• A document mapping out the different initiatives and actors in this space will be distributed by UNEP-
FI, providing a framework of information to ensure that the collaborative work going forward in
particular areas is convening leading actors in those areas.
• To hold a follow up meeting in early 2011 where UNEP-FI and Volans help participants refine and take
this action agenda further, progressively including other actors and platforms, like the Finance Lab, as
well as financial institutions who want to take central part in advancing solutions to the challenge of
integrating natural capital to the finance sector.
With many thanks to the participants; to Sagarika Chatterjee of F&C Management for hosting the meeting; and
to Margot Hill of UNEP-FI for her extraordinary help with the organization of the meeting.
Alejandro Litovsky Ivo Mulder
Director, Volans Innovation Lab Programme Officer - Biodiversity &
Ecosystems
Volans Ventures UNEP-Finance Initiative
alejandro@volans.com ivo.mulder@unep.org
5. Annex 1: Participant List:
Name Institution Position
Alejandro Litovsky Volans Director, Volans Innovation Lab
Andrew Mitchell Global Canopy Programme Director
Annelisa Grigg NVI Project Director
Ard Hordijk Nyenrode University Researcher, Biodiversity and Business, Centre for Sustainability
Becca Madsen Ecosystem Marketplace Biodiversity Programme Manager
Senior Adviser - Change Strategies Team, Sustainable
Charlotte Millar WWF Consumption
Christopher Knowles European Investment Bank Head of Division Climate Change and Environment
Giulia Guidi JP Morgan Vice President, Environmental Social Risk Management
Ivo Mulder UNEP-FI Programme Manager, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services
James Gifford UN PRI Executive Director
Jemma Green JP Morgan Vice President, Sustainable Development
John Finisdore WRI Associate, Business & Ecosystem Services Project
Jon Williams PWC Sustainability and climate change
Joost Bakker Global Nature Fund Junior Project Manager
Josh Bishop IUCN Chief Economist, Co-Ordinator TEEB
Juan Salazar F&C Analyst, Governance & Sustainable Development
Karen Shaw Schroders SRI Analyst
Kurt Ramin IUCN Advisor
Lara Yacob Robeco Senior Engagement Specialist, Responsible Investing
Lars Bendik Johnsen Convention on Biological Diversity Business and Biodiversity
Laura Somerville FFI Programme Director
Margot Hill UNEP-FI Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services
Head of Business Biodiversity and Ecosystems Assessment
Monica Barcellos-Harris UNEP WCMC Programme
Monique Pennings ING Advisor Corporate Responsibility
Narina Mnatsakanian UN PRI Global Networks
Olivia Watson UN PRI Manager, Environmental Engagements
Olivia White PWC Executive, Sustainability & Climate Change
Paul Herbertson F&C Intern, MBA Student
Pavan Sukhdev UNEP TEEB Study Leader TEEB
Peter Carter European Investment Bank Associate Director, Head Environment and Social Office
Ravi Sharma Convention on Biological Diversity Director for Implementation and Technical Support
Rebecca Foges FFI Communications Officer
Richard Max-Lino NERC Green Economy Strategist - Financial Services
Richard Piechocki Rabobank Issue Manager
Richard Spencer ICAEW, Finance Innovation Lab Head of sustainability, Co-Lead
Sagarika Chatterjee F&C Associate Director, Governance & Sustainable Investment
Saskia Verbunt VBDO Project Manager
Sean Gilbert GRI Director Sustainability Reporting Framework, China Focal Point
Sharon Brooks UNEP WCMC Programme Officer, Business and Ecosystem Services
Stefan Hormann Global Nature Fund Scientist
Steven Ripley FFD Senior Manager
Tom Huxley Ecosecurities/JPMorgan Integration Manager
Victor Anderson WWF Leader, One Planet Economy Workstream
William Evison PWC Sustainability and climate change