Thursday 11 December 2025
The financial sector is at a turning point: five years ago, biodiversity-related issues were largely absent from institutional strategies. Today, through the collective action of over 200 signatories to the Finance for Biodiversity (FfB) Pledge, biodiversity has moved into the mainstream of sustainable finance.
The recently published FfB Impact Report 2025 tracks the progress, achievements, and challenges of the FfB Pledge signatory institutions that are driving action on nature.
Building on insights from the report, this Policy Brief places the results into a policy context — connecting them directly to the FfB Foundation’s policy paper, Aligning Financial Flows with the Global Biodiversity Framework (April 2024). Together, these publications aim to inform and inspire government action that enables private finance to accelerate the transition towards a nature-positive global economy.
Specifically, this Policy Brief distils three core dimensions of action where government support and policy coherence are critical:
- Drive ambition and transparency in the private finance sector;
- Lead the nature-positive transition of the economy;
- Create economic incentives for positive impact.
All policy recommendations should be underpinned by a whole-of-government approach, as well as action from central banks and supervisors, to amplify nature ambition and support systemic change. The paper Aligning Financial Flows with the Global Biodiversity Framework (April 2024) underscored the urgency: achieving the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) requires aligning all financial flows—public and private—with nature-positive outcomes. This Brief highlights the emerging pathways, persistent barriers, and the key policy asks from the finance sector to governments. The lessons from the Impact Report provide evidence of how key policy asks influence the practices of the private finance sector.
Public-private collaboration, coherent policy signals, robust disclosure frameworks, and effective de-risking mechanisms are critical if the momentum built by the FfB Pledge community is to translate into the scale of capital required for global nature recovery.