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Barclays unveils approach to navigating nature-related financial risk

Stuart Mitchell

Barclays publishes leading approach to assessing nature-related financial risks of large financial portfolios and outlines pragmatic steps to drive progress. Understanding of nature-related risk and how to include it in economic and financial modelling is nascent. To make progress, Barclays is seeking to drive forward an industry-wide conversation and, in a new publication, Navigating Nature Risk: Applying the TNFD’s LEAP framework, details how it has leveraged the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure’s Locate, Evaluate, Assess and Prepare Framework (LEAP). Focusing on a sample of mining and European power companies, Barclays…

State of Europe’s environment not good: threats to nature and impacts of climate change top challenges

Stuart Mitchell

Significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, but the overall state of Europe’s environment is not good, especially its nature which continues to face degradation, overexploitation and biodiversity loss. The impacts of accelerating climate change are also an urgent challenge, according to the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) most comprehensive, ‘state of environment’ report, published today. The outlook for most environmental trends is concerning and poses major risks to Europe’s economic prosperity, security and quality of life. The report stresses that climate change and environmental…

26 new Biosphere Reserves: UNESCO’s continues unprecedented expansion of its global network

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO designates 26 new biosphere reserves across 21 countries – the highest number in 20 years. The World Network of Biosphere Reserves now includes 785 sites in 142 countries, with an additional one million km² of natural areas brought under protection since 2018 – equivalent to the size of Bolivia. This year, six countries welcome their first biosphere reserve, while São Tomé and Príncipe becomes the first State to have its entire territory designated as a biosphere reserve. With nearly thirty new designations this year, our World Network of Biosphere…

World leaders place women’s empowerment and gender equality at the heart of multilateralism as UNGA80 High-level Week opens

Stuart Mitchell

2025 marks a once-in-a-generation milestone for women’s rights and gender equality: 30 years since the world committed to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 15 since the creation of UN Women, and 80 since the founding of the United Nations. Yet these milestones arrive at a time of unprecedented backlash – when hard-won gains for women and girls are under attack, at a cost measured in lives, rights and opportunities. Image President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of Namibia delivers her address at the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Thirtieth…

HeForShe Alliance rallies men and boys to stop online misogyny

Stuart Mitchell

Online misogyny has reached crisis levels, with women and girls subjected daily to harassment, abuse and discrimination across digital spaces. A recent Team Lewis study, conducted in support of the HeForShe Alliance, found that 80 per cent of Gen Z and 76 per cent of Millennials are deeply concerned about sexist rhetoric on social media. The latest Gender Snapshot further underscores the scale of the problem, revealing that nearly three in four women journalists have experienced online violence.   Image UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous addresses the audience at…