UK Nature-Related Risk Analysis Update

In early 2023, the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), University of Oxford, University of Reading and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), in a project led by the Green Finance Institute (GFI), set out to develop the first analysis of the financial risks posed by nature degradation and the erosion of ecosystem services, both domestically and globally, to the real economy and financial sector in the UK.

An analysis update, ahead of the final results and detailed publication of this research in April 2024 can be accessed here.