In the Netherlands alone, more than 500 billion euros of the investments of Dutch financial institutions are highly or very highly dependent on one or more ecosystem services. The sector provides loans and other financial services to companies in sectors like agriculture or processed food and drink production, sectors that are dependent on ecosystem services like pollination.
But it is not just dependencies that can make companies, and those that invested in them, vulnerable to biodiversity loss. It is also the negative impact of certain companies on nature that create risks. Companies that stimulate deforestation, make excessive use of unrenewable resources and pollute the environment.