Natural Value Initiative

The Natural Value Initiative (NVI) is Fauna & Flora International's (FFI) platform to engage financial institutions around natural capital by developing tools and methodologies that demonstrate the materiality of nature capital and enables mainstreaming thereof into financial decision-making.

Implementation

Market-based instruments
Marketing
Reporting

Methods

Cost-benefit analysis
Impact assessment
Institutional analysis
Multi-criteria decision analysis/decision-support tools
Natural capital accounting
Risk assessment
Social impact assessment

Constraints

Product requirements

The NVI was set up in 2007 by Fauna & Flora International (FFI), a UK based charity that works to protect threatened species and ecosystems worldwide. Since its inception, the NVI has made important contributions by demonstrating the materiality of natural capital, biodiversity and ecosystem services to the financial services sector as a means by which to stimulate greater private sector uptake around these values.

Advantages

The Natural Value Initiative (NVI) engages financial institutions around the materiality of natural capital as a means by which to steer finance towards businesses that manage their impact and dependency on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Primary economic activities are generating $7.3 trillion in external environmental costs per year - equivalent to 13% of global GDP - through the effects of land use including deforestation, water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and waste

Links

Natural Value Initiative

Contact details

For further information please contact:
Laura Somerville
Fauna & Flora International
Laura.somerville@fauna-flora.org

Susan Steinhagen
UNEP Finance Initiative
Susan.steinhagen@unep.ch

Fauna & Flora International
G3, Ground Floor,
14 Buckingham Street,
London,
WC2N 6DF

Tel +44 1223 571000
Fax: +44 1223 461481

The Natural Value Initiative Overview