Biodiversity

A necessary dialogue between biodiversity and investment To support these reflections, a podcast series was created, with each episode dedicated to one of the working groups. This edition focuses on biodiversity through the group entitled “Implementing both granular and holistic analysis that integrates location-related challenges,” co-founded by Candriam. Designed as a platform for dialogue, the […]

What is biodiversity debt? The question, once asked, already requires clarification. “The notion of biodiversity debt is very particular, and depending on certain perspectives, it may not even be called debt,” warns Elouan Heurard, Biodiversity Analyst at Candriam. Because it is not a financial debt in the macroeconomic sense, but an attempt to provide an accounting translation of […]

To shed light on these issues, the asset management firm sought to estimate what a company’s “biodiversity debt” might look like. “Our idea is to measure a company’s footprint and estimate the cost of restoring the impacts it has generated,” explained Elouan Heurard. As an example, he presented a scenario for restoring the impacts associated […]

Scenarios — But For What Purpose? Scenarios have become a standard exercise. They are produced to comply with regulations, reassure investors, and respond to regulators. Yet their primary function should be quite different: to test the robustness of a business model under uncertain futures. In practice, many companies still present optimistic trajectories, lightly stressed and […]

Starting around 2016-2017, the strategy expanded to include promotional activities, with the implementation of rapid diagnostics designed to quickly identify major local biodiversity challenges. Since then, a biodiversity module has been developed with the Lokimo tool to qualify ecological stakes of a site upstream of projects, based on public data: protected species, soil pollution, ecological […]