With a range of government and non-government entities sounding the alarm on the need for a greater focus on biodiversity, it is clear that considered investments in the water value chain can provide a solution to one of the greatest challenges faced by the human race. As is so often the case, we can see from the evidence presented in this paper that the cost of action is far outweighed by the cost of inaction and believe that water’s intrinsic importance in creating a sustainable biodiverse world is as critical to global health as drinking the resource itself.
We believe it is too narrow a goal to simply pursue a low carbon future and view, as we have stated, the combined crises of climate change and nature loss as being intrinsically interlinked. To this end, we would urge any and all sustainability focused investors to broaden the scope of their investments into those that cover both topics with climate change a direct threat to biodiversity, and with biodiversity a hugely important sink for carbon. Can we afford one without the other?
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