Mistra Finbio aims to enhance the financial sector’s ability to contribute to a nature-positive economy. The programme develops methods and metrics to help investors identify corporate practices that promise to reduce pressures on nature and strengthen existing biodiversity.
Mistra FinBio is a transdisciplinary research programme dedicated to advancing and translating biodiversity-related research into decision-relevant knowledge and actionable tools for the financial sector. We combine expertise from ecology, computational biology, macro-finance, economics, philosophy, and data science to understand how biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and resilience shape financial risks, opportunities and long-term economic stability. Our academic partners are Stockholm Resilience Centre, University of Gothenburg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Museum of Natural History, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group.
Our vision and mission
» Our vision is a future where financial investments promote and shape an economy that supports a resilient biosphere and prosperous societies.
» Our mission is to facilitate real change in the financial system in a way that benefits biodiversity.
» We do so by developing transdisciplinary research and decision-support tools that can inform financial actors’ strategies and promote investments that revive rather than harm nature.
FinBio operates as both a research engine and an innovation platform, conducting frontier academic research while codeveloping science-based methods with strategically selected financial sector partners. Outputs include nature impact metrics, valuation approaches, investor guidance and risk-assessment tools that can be integrated into financial processes.
FinBio views the financial sector from a systems perspective and we have worked to reveal how the different parts of the financial system are connected and can reinforce or prevent each other from delivering on sustainable ambitions. We recognize the critical role of data in driving financial decision-making and have placed a strong focus on addressing the information needs of different types of financial actors to help improve their decision outcomes. Our choice of impact partners reflect this system’s approach to the financial sector, representing actors ranging from the venture capital community, to large institutional investors, asset owners and asset managers. Our impact partners are, Pictet Asset Management, The Principle for Responsible Investment (PRI), VC 2050, Sustainable Finance Lab, Finance For Biodiversity Founation, Swedish Investors for Sustainable Development (SISD).
