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Federated Hermes
Our partnership
With the joint ambition of raising awareness and promoting the protection of biodiversity, global investment firm Federated Hermes has launched a Biodiversity Equity Fund using insights from the Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Intactness Index.
The fund meets a demand in the sector for financial solutions that support the global goals on biodiversity. It invests in a concentrated portfolio of companies that are helping to preserve and restore biodiversity.
Informing the Biodiversity Equity Fund
We’ve developed the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII), a scientifically rigorous dataset that estimates the percentage of native biodiversity in any given area that still remains. The index uses a combination of land use, ecosystem, species and population data to give a simple figure for 'intactness' - the percentage of an area's natural ecological community that persists.
The Federated Hermes team are using this data to help support and inform investment decisions.
Together with Federated Hermes, we’ll continue to explore how our biodiversity experts and data scientists can help to positively inform the products and services that investment companies enable. Federated Hermes donates 5% of the net management fee revenue from this fund to us.
We are delighted to see the launch of this fund encouraging investment in companies that are helping to preserve and restore biodiversity, and thrilled to see Federated Hermes adopting the Museum's Biodiversity Intactness Index. Together we can bend the curve of biodiversity loss and create a world in which both people and planet can thrive.
Doug Gurr
Director, Natural History Museum
The negative impacts of biodiversity loss pose a systemic risk to the global economy and we must stop taking nature's permanence for granted. We believe now is a crucial moment to invest in the companies that help to mitigate biodiversity decline. We are convinced that there is a cohort of quality, investible stocks that provide investors profitable access to this megatrend.
We are gaining critical knowledge by using the data that go into the Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Intactness Index and we are delighted to donate money to fund the Museum's work as the custodian of one of the world's most important scientific collections.
Ingrid Kukuljan
Head of Impact and Sustainable Investing, Federated Hermes