Mandarin version of the Little Book of Investing in Nature released during COP15

A Mandarin version of the award-winning Little Book of Investing in Nature has been released during the Convention of Biological Diversity COP15, hosted by China and taking place in Montreal.

Translated by the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN), the Little Book provides an essential overview of biodiversity finance at a time when governments and international negotiators are urgently seeking pragmatic solutions for the twin crises of climate change and the loss of nature.

The Little Book of Investing in Nature, a free-to-read e-book was authored by a consortium of nature and nature-finance specialists led by Professor John Tobin-de la Puente, Professor of Practice of Corporate Sustainability at Cornell University and Global Canopy Founder and Vice-Chair of the TNFD Stewardship Council, Andrew Mitchell.

‘China is an important leader in green finance having piloted many innovative financing mechanisms. Having the Little Book translated into Chinese allows us to reach a new audience to access information about financing solutions from all over the world.’

Onno van den Heuvel, Global Manager, UNDP-BIOFIN

Recognition that more than half of global GDP depends on nature has fuelled greater ambition to protect our forests, oceans, grasslands and wetlands. New targets for biodiversity protection are expected to be agreed at COP15.

The Little Book provides a simple guide for governments and policy makers involved in setting those targets on how biodiversity protection can be financed. It brings together information on a range of innovative financial products and services developed by both the public and the private sectors seeking to shift investment away from activities that damage nature (nature-negative) towards more nature-positive activities.

“As China hosts the UN COP15 on Biodiversity in Montreal, the world’s spotlight is on how we avoid financing ourselves into extinction. The Little Book of Investing in Nature sets out how we can do this. I am delighted that it is now available in Mandarin. China has a huge task ahead to realise its vision of an ecological civilisation and the ideas in the book can help them to achieve it”

Andrew Mitchell, Founder and Senior Advisor to Global Canopy

The Little Book of Investing in Nature, which won the FT’s How we Teach This Recognition Award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education for Teaching Materials Most Informed by Recent Developments in 2021, is also available in English, French, Indonesian and Spanish.