On December 4th, Jean-Jacques Barbéris, Head of Institutional and Corporate Clients Division & ESG, gave the closing keynote speech at the inaugural Finance for Biodiversity Summit in Amsterdam.
Key takeaways from his speech on scaling up collective action on biodiversity include:
- In a challenging geopolitical context, where multilateralism is put to the test, collective action is ever more important. The Finance for Biodiversity Pledge – which Amundi signed back in 2021 – now has 200 signatories from 29 countries.
- Collective action has led to significant results: adoption of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has more than doubled in the last two years, reaching 733 companies in 2025. New initiatives on biodiversity are also launched on the sovereign side, such as the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) during COP30, a new long-term finance platform to reward countries that keep their tropical forests standing.
- Natural capital is emerging as a new asset class: over €53 billion are already invested by Finance for Biodiversity Foundation members, led by rising demand on the institutional side.
- The Credit Agricole Group announced the launch of a new strategy on natural capital two weeks ago, and Amundi announces today the launch of two new strategies focused on biodiversity.
