  {"id":32002,"date":"2024-02-28T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/storie\/news-events\/biodiversita-etica-sgr-finance-biodiversity-pledge"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:00:51","slug":"etica-funds-finance-for-biodiversity-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/storie\/insights\/etica-funds-finance-for-biodiversity-pledge","title":{"rendered":"Etica Funds signs the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Etica Funds signed in 2020 the finance world\u2019s commitment to biodiversity (Finance for Biodiversity Pledge). Etica, at the time of its launch, was the <strong>only Italian company<\/strong>&nbsp;among the 26 signatories to the <strong>finance world\u2019s commitment to biodiversity<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.financeforbiodiversity.org\/\">Finance for Biodiversity Pledge<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h2>The finance world\u2019s commitment<\/h2>\n<p>The Finance for Biodiversity Pledge is a collective document that originated from a group of European financial institutions that actively worked as members of the European Union&#8217;s <strong>Finance and Biodiversity Community<\/strong> (F@B Community).<\/p>\n<p>In the document, the <strong>financial institutions call on world leaders to reverse the nature loss<\/strong> of the past decade and undertake to <strong>collaborate, take action and calculate their own impact<\/strong> <strong>on biodiversity<\/strong>, setting specific biodiversity targets by 2024 and reporting appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>As a signatory to the document, Etica recognises that the Earth&#8217;s biosphere, which is under increasing stress, underpins human resilience and progress. As a financial institution, it emphasises the need to <strong>protect biodiversity<\/strong> and <strong>reverse the loss of natural resources<\/strong> in this decade.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance for Biodiversity Pledge was launched at the Nature for Life Hub on the sidelines of the 75th United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financeforbiodiversity.org\/\"><img class=\"wp-image-31248 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/biodiversita-finance-bio.jpg\" alt=\"Etica Funds signs the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/biodiversita-finance-bio.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/biodiversita-finance-bio-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/biodiversita-finance-bio-400x222.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Why Etica Funds is a signatory of this pledge<\/h2>\n<p><img class=\"size-full wp-image-27586 alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/10\/luca-mattiazzi-settimana-sri.png\" alt=\"Luca Mattiazzi, Director General of Etica Funds\" width=\"40%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/10\/luca-mattiazzi-settimana-sri.png 365w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/10\/luca-mattiazzi-settimana-sri-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiodiversity is the hallmark of ecosystems and provides an invaluable set of services for society in relation to health, wellbeing and economic growth. Biodiversity is a systemic issue that needs to be addressed by policymakers, investors and civil society. We are happy to sign up to this pledge because we strongly believe that finance, as a key tool to serve the economy, must play a leading role in fostering sustainable development by directing funds\u2019 investments towards companies with a positive environmental impact. As a responsible investor, Etica is committed to constantly strengthening its investment process in order to identify, assess and manage biodiversity-related risks and to engage in dialogue with companies on this issue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luca Mattiazzi<\/strong>, Director General of Etica Funds.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance for Biodiversity Pledge remains open to new signatories (banks, insurers, asset management companies, pension funds and impact funds) from every corner of the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etica Funds signed in 2020 the finance world\u2019s commitment to biodiversity (Finance for Biodiversity Pledge). Etica, at the time of its launch, was the only Italian company&nbsp;among the 26 signatories to the finance world\u2019s commitment to biodiversity (Finance for Biodiversity Pledge). The finance world\u2019s commitment The Finance for Biodiversity Pledge is a collective document that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"custom-templates\/single-avanzato.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590,996],"tags":[22704,100,37535],"yst_prominent_words":[22588,22582,22586,22580,21238,21237,22584,22578,21239,22592,22593,22589,22583,22590,22576,22577,22587,22581,22585,22579],"class_list":["post-32002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-international-campaigns","tag-biodiversity","tag-climate-change","tag-environmental-campaign","temi-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32002"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57264,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002\/revisions\/57264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32002"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}