Imagine a world...
where financial institutions promote and protect biodiversity.
Nature preservation is critical to mitigating climate change. Yet, human activity has caused extensive biodiversity loss, soil erosion, water scarcity, and forest degradation—depleting the power of nature and exacerbating our climate problems.
To help offset these activities, and direct money into replenishing our natural ecosystems, Cboe Canada (formerly the NEO Exchange), Canada’s Tier 1 stock exchange that caters to the innovation economy, spearheaded a unique collaboration to build a nature-based financial instrument in 2023. This project was funded in part by the RBC Foundation in support of RBC Tech for Nature, RBC’s global, multi-year, $100 million commitment by 2025 to support new ideas, technologies, and partnerships — addressing some of the most complex environmental challenges we face.
Through a multi-year process that brought in collaborators from agriculture, insurance, finance, and conservation, Cboe Canada and RBC deepened their understanding of sustainable finance’s role in regenerative agriculture, built strong cross-sector relationships, and generated valuable insights that continue to inform future work.
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