4 December 2025, FfB Summit, Amsterdam
Finance for Biodiversity Foundation today launches its first Impact Report on the occasion of its first FfB Summit: From Pledge to Progress. The report marks five years since the launch of the Finance for Biodiversity (FfB) Pledge and presents the aggregated progress of 126 Pledge signatories across banking, asset management, insurance, pension funds and impact funds. All 126 responded to the FfB Impact Survey which asked questions on the FfB Pledge’s five commitments on nature finance.
Among the 126 signatories, the 26 pioneering institutions that signed the Pledge in 2020 reached their five-year external reporting milestone in 2025. Others joined more recently, including signatories from 2024 who chose to disclose their progress early, demonstrating strong commitment to accountability and shared learning.
The Impact Report builds on the FfB Foundation’s Internal Members Progress Report (IMPR) process, which has tracked members’ practices annually since 2023. Over three cycles, the IMPR has enabled members to benchmark their progress against peers, identify common challenges, and prioritise topics requiring deeper guidance. This directly informs the focus areas of the Foundation’s working groups and published practitioner resources.
Key findings
- Respondents showed strong progress on the first Pledge commitment: collaboration and knowledge sharing, with 98% of respondents having integrated biodiversity into their ESG or sustainability policies, compared with a global average of 55%.
- 90% collaborate actively through industry initiatives and FfB working groups, embedding biodiversity into mainstream finance discussions.
- Engagement with companies has become the primary lever for driving accountability, with 98% of institutions engaging companies on biodiversity, 79% involved in collaborative engagement platforms and 71% operating escalation frameworks.
- Understanding biodiversity impacts is now mainstream practice among FfB members and signatories, with 88% of Impact Survey respondents having conducted biodiversity impact assessments, 67% having assessed dependencies on nature and 72% progressing to company-level analysis.
- 67% have set and published one or more biodiversity or nature targets, a leadership milestone in a market where only 25% of institutions globally have done so1. This figure rises to 80% when looking at FfB Foundation members only in the IMPR survey.
- The flow of capital towards biodiversity-positive solutions is increasing, with 54% of the Impact Survey respondents stating they had already allocated capital to financing activities and investments that contribute to positive impact on nature, amounting to over €53 billion, largely in agriculture and forestry.
- 68% expressed a strong appetite to scale up positive impact investments, yet only 20% have set concrete growth targets for the next 3–5 years — revealing an ambition–action gap.
Since the launch of the FfB Pledge in 2020, the FfB movement has grown from a call to action on biodiversity into a global force driving change in the financial sector. Over 200 signatories across 29 countries are now working to contribute to the protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems through their financing activities and investments.
Anita de Horde, Executive Director, FfB Foundation said:
“Five years ago, nature was barely integrated into ESG processes within the finance community. Today, that has changed and it’s remarkable to witness how this community has not only grown but taken concrete steps to deliver on its commitments.
“We are excited to continue deepening our engagement and supporting the finance sector on its journey toward nature-positive outcomes. The Impact Report published today illustrates a community that is growing in ambition, strengthening its practices, and recognising the shared responsibility of the finance sector to reduce negative and increase positive impacts on nature. The Finance for Biodiversity Foundation will continue to support this community through the creation of guidance, frameworks, peer learning, and collaboration, while calling on governments and market actors to play their part.”