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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Do investors care about biodiversity? |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Review of Finance |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1572-3097 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Number | 4 |
| Page Range | 1151 - 1186 |
| Date | 2024 |
| Abstract Text | This article introduces a new measure of a firm’s negative impact on biodiversity, the corporate biodiversity footprint (CBF), and studies whether it is priced in an international sample of stocks. On average, the CBF does not explain the cross-section of returns between 2019 and 2022. However, a biodiversity footprint premium (higher returns for firms with larger footprints) began emerging in October 2021 after the Kunming Declaration, which capped the first part of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15). Consistent with this finding, stocks with large footprints lost value in the days after the Kunming Declaration. The launch of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) in June 2021 had a similar effect. These results indicate that investors have started to require a risk premium upon the prospect of, and uncertainty about, future regulation or litigation to preserve biodiversity. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1093/rof/rfae010 |
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