Financial sector ‘critical’ to stemming biodiversity loss, says Thérèse Coffey

UK environment secretary calls on business and finance to make meaningful investment in nature-based solutions

The financial sector must be encouraged to invest in nature conservation for the world to meet this decade's UN biodiversity targets, the UK environment secretary has said.

Therese Coffey, speaking at an event at Lancaster House in London to mobilise private finance after Cop15, said the private sector had a critical role to play in meeting this decade's deal to halt the destruction of Earth's ecosystems.

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