Our aim is to bring together researchers from philosophy, finance, economics, law, and environmental governance to discuss the emerging field of biodiversity finance.

As financial instruments and metrics are increasingly leveraged to govern biodiversity, urgent questions arise regarding their legitimacy, efficacy, and justice. This workshop, funded by the NWO and organized in collaboration with the University of Groningen PPE centre,  aims to foster collaboration across disciplines in the investigation of the legal, scientific and ethical foundations of biodiversity finance. 

We are particularly interested in questions such as: How can biodiversity impacts be measured and incorporated into financial decision-making? What role should banks, investors, and public institutions play in biodiversity conservation? What governance structures are needed to ensure effective biodiversity finance? And how to ensure a just biodiversity finance, for both human and non-human communities involved?

Themes

We welcome submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Normative Foundations: Fairness and justice for local human and non-human communities.

• Technical Challenges: The challenges and limitations of using financial metrics to represent ecological value in biodiversity finance.

• Governance: The role of institutional frameworks in managing financialized biodiversity.

• Accountability: Responsibility in biodiversity-finance decision-making and the role of stakeholders.