Decouple key economic sectors, food commodity production and transition mineral extraction with associated financing, from ecosystem degradation
High-impact food commodities
The food sector is the leading driver of current, and if left unchecked, future ecosystem degradation. It ranks first in its impacts on nature through deforestation, habitat conversion, water use and biodiversity loss, and second in global greenhouse gas emissions.
By focusing on high-impact food commodities, we maximize the power of market-based solutions: scale and durability.
Transition minerals
As the global demand for diverse energy resources accelerates, demand for transition minerals, such as cobalt, copper, lithium and nickel, is expected to exceed supply, requiring new mines over the coming decade.
As the global demand for diverse energy resources accelerates, demand for transition minerals, such as cobalt, copper, lithium and nickel, is expected to exceed supply, requiring new mines over the coming decade.
This creates a unique opportunity to work with public and private entities to ensure new mining is done responsibly: that ecosystem impacts are fully considered, trade-offs transparent, and development occurs without compromising the energy transition.
Over the next three years, we will pilot programming focused on these minerals. Following a review by early 2029, we will determine whether to extend the program.
Finance
Financial companies are increasingly seeking better information to access risk exposure and corporates look for recognition and reward from the financial sector for sustainable action.
Working through mainstream financial markets, we aim to shift business incentives in the food sector and harness the momentum from production practices that conserve, rather than damage, natural ecosystems.
With the right market information and incentives in place — operating at the needed scale — we believe we can work to meet present and future food and mineral demand while averting deforestation and habitat conversion, overfishing and other harmful impacts on natural ecosystems.
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