The NatureFinance@Oxford Seminar Series brings together leading researchers to explore the critical intersection of biodiversity and nature finance.
The series provides a forum for academics, policymakers, and practitioners to examine how financial systems can better support nature.
Through interdisciplinary perspectives and engaging discussions, the seminars highlight emerging challenges and innovative approaches to mobilising finance for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration.
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NatureFinance@Oxford Podcast
Biodiversity offsets & credits: innovative mechanism or false solution?
Frédéric Hache
Green Finance Observatory
Biodiversity offsetting has often struggled to deliver the environmental benefits it promises. So why is it still playing a big role in biodiversity finance? In this episode, our guest explores biodiversity offsetting and emerging biodiversity credit schemes, looking at their environmental impacts and implications for people and human rights.
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Research Frontiers in Biodiversity Finance and Policy: A Conversation with Sara Löfqvist
Dr Sara Löfqvist (ETH Zurich) discusses the evolving field of biodiversity finance, reviewing the current literature and examining the deeper macroeconomic forces driving biodiversity loss and social inequity. They reflect on the roles of public and private actors, and the risks and opportunities shaping progress towards CBD Target 19.
High-Integrity Biodiversity Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Financial and Ecological Accountability
Professor Franziska Schrodt
University of Nottingham
Biodiversity data is being collected at an unprecedented scale, but much of it remains locked in private systems, limiting its use for monitoring and accountability. This episode explores how better integration of biodiversity data could improve ecological tracking and financial reporting.
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The Original Biodiversity Finance
Dr Susan de Witt
Stellenbosch University
Wildlife-based land use in Southern and East Africa has delivered strong ecological and socio-economic outcomes through private and communal systems. This episode shows how these approaches already function as an early form of biodiversity finance.
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The Limits to Derisked Decarbonisation: State Capacity Unevenness in Domestic Green Transition Strategies
Dr Rosie Collington
Copenhagen Business School
Green transition outcomes depend heavily on state capacity, which varies across sectors and institutions. This episode examines how domestic priorities and financing conditions shape decarbonisation pathways.
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Derisking Biodiversity Investments: Lessons from the Energy Transition
Dr Florian Egli
Technical University of Munich
This episode explores whether derisking tools used in energy transitions can help unlock private finance for biodiversity and ecosystem restoration. It presents a framework for assessing when financial derisking is effective.
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The Promise and Pitfalls of Biodiversity Finance: A Conversation with Siddarth Shrikanth, Director of Natural Climate Solutions at Just Climate
This episode explores how biodiversity finance is developing, where it is succeeding, and where it falls short. It also examines the limitations of current financial systems in valuing nature.
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Mapping Financial System Interactions with Ecosystem Tipping Points: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesian Peatlands
Professor Josh Ryan-Collins
University College London
This episode explores how financial flows contribute to ecosystem degradation in the Amazon and Indonesian peatlands. It traces investment networks driving deforestation across global financial systems.
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What is a Unit of Nature? Measurement Challenges in the Emerging Biodiversity Credit Market
Dr Hannah Wauchope
University of Edinburgh
As interest grows in standardised biodiversity metrics for business and finance, it is important to understand how biodiversity units are defined in the rapidly expanding voluntary biodiversity credit market. This episode discusses the challenges of reducing biodiversity to a single measure and what this means for the future of biodiversity credit markets.
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