Categories: deep sea mining

"Biodiversity loss was a breakthrough topic last year in within our sector, after what has been a long battle for many of us advocating for the issue. But now, this issue is increasingly being understood to rank alongside climate change — and to be intrinsically linked to solving it -as areas of significant systemic risk for investors"- Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO Storebrand Asset Management

Nature Action 100 is a global investor engagement initiative focused on driving greater corporate ambition and action to reduce nature and biodiversity loss. Investors participating in the initiative engage companies in key sectors that are deemed to be systemically important in reversing nature and biodiversity loss by 2030

A group of 36 financial institutions, representing over EUR 3.3 trillion of combined assets, have released a new joint statement urging governments to protect the ocean and not proceed with deep-sea mining until the environmental, social and economic risks are comprehensively understood, and alternatives to deep-sea minerals have been fully explored.