IFD and EPE publish the proceedings of the second DEFi symposium

Entreprises pour l’Environnement (EPE) and the Institut de la Finance Durable (IFD) today publish the proceedings of the second edition of the DEFi symposium ‘Dialogue Entreprise-Finance sur les solutions et actions pour la nature’.

This day of debates strengthened the dialogue between companies and financial players on the subject of biodiversity, revealing a number of major trends:

• COP15 raised awareness of the fact that our economy is dependent on biodiversity; companies and financial institutions have begun to mobilize to redirect financial flows in a way that is more favorable to nature.
• with the release of the first version of the TNFD and the entry into force of the CSRD, reporting frameworks and biodiversity metrics are being consolidated.
• the emergence of one or more biodiversity credit markets could be one of the levers enabling private finance to be channelled towards nature conservation and restoration.
• the growing need for biomass requires adapted forest governance and management methods.
• the commitments of companies and financial players to combat deforestation have been highlighted and should be multiplied. Agricultural models that are favorable to health, biodiversity and climate can also be rethought.

The prospect of CBD COP16 in Colombia, UNOC 2025 in Nice and UNFCCC COP30 in Brazil are accelerating the search for synergies between companies and financial institutions.

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