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- 1Crédit Agricole Launches Natural Capital Finance Division●Crédit Agricole Launches New Natural Capital Finance and Investment Division
Crédit Agricole has announced the creation of a new division dedicated to natural capital finance and investment. The move signals the French bank's push into financing tied to biodiversity and nature-related assets, an emerging area as investors and regulators increasingly focus on environmental impact beyond carbon. Details on the unit's size, mandate and leadership were not immediately provided in initial reports.
- 2Cali Fund launches to finance biodiversity through genetic data sharing▼The Cali Fund aims to mobilise biodiversity finance with fair benefit-sharing of nature's genetic data
The Cali Fund has been set up to mobilise biodiversity finance by ensuring fair benefit-sharing from the use of nature's genetic data. Industries that draw on digital sequence information from plants, animals and other organisms would contribute funds that flow back to conservation and to communities stewarding biodiversity. Supporters frame it as a test of whether commercial users of genetic resources will pay their share for nature.
- 3Funding gap threatens Montreal biodiversity agreement goals●# canada But that funding is now the main roadblock in reaching the goals of the Montreal agreement. A new assessment re
A new assessment report released in New York this week projects that, based on current commitments, only 27 per cent of lands and 12 per cent of oceans will be protected under the Montreal agreement's targets. Funding shortfalls are identified as the main obstacle to reaching the biodiversity goals, with countries facing pressure to close the financing gap.