The Biodiversity and Finance Risk Forum, as of May 2025, is an informal online network of persons interested in the intersection of finance and biodiversity exposure/risk.
It is NOT about doughnut economics, ecological economics, the circular economy, financing for ecological and nature preservation/restoration, nor about the evils of late-stage capitalism. All of these may well inform work, but there are other, excellent venues for research and discussion on those.
What it IS about is how biodiversity risk/exposure/awareness enters into the pricing kernel for assets, impacts financial and real investment decision making, flows into financial asset allocation and into the financial stability of individual actors and systems.
If you are interested in getting involved, please sign up to the mailing list at www.ffea.eu
Seminar (by Zoom, 1200h, invitations will be sent to those on the mailing list). All times are Dublin time.
19 June 2025 Managerial Myopia and Biodiversity Risk
Yueyang Wang, Cardiff University
Recording here:
16 July 2025 Climate Change Exposure, Biodiversity Risk, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from UK-listed firms
Hai Hong Trinh, Eastern International University (EIU), Vietnam; Massey University, New Zealand; Vin University, Vietnam
Recording here:
20 August 2025 Biodiversity Risk and External Financing Choice
Zoe Zhou, Hunan University
Recording here
17 18 September 2025 Firm-Level Governance Mechanisms and Financing of Biodiversity Risk-Exposed Firms
Umeair Shahzad, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting & Finance
21 October 2025 Indebted to Nature: Corporate Biodiversity Endowment and Bond Market Reactions
Xu Han, Auckland University of Technology