Biodiversity

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 […]

Interview vidéo avec Alix Chosson et Elouan Heurard, analystes ESG au sein de Candriam.

Co-fondé par Candriam au sein du Think Tank « 2030, Investir demain », le groupe de travail consacré à la biodiversité étudie l’intégration, dans les processus d’analyse des entreprises, des enjeux liés à la localisation de leurs activités. L’objectif est d’évaluer les impacts et les dépendances liés à la biodiversité.