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Home to 80% of the world’s life on land, forests are crucial to maintaining biodiversity. But some of the world’s most critical ecosystems are being lost at an alarming rate. This is mainly through the production, procurement and financing of a handful of commodities, including beef, soy, and palm oil. Although there are some positive signs of progress, an area of forest more than eleven times the size of Wales was lost in 2022.
Pension funds are exposed to deforestation, land conversion and associated human rights abuses, especially facing Indigenous peoples, through the sectors and industries they invest in. As a result, they have a unique ability to help drive change, both within their own investments and across the finance sector more broadly.
Pensions are supposed to provide for the future but, as our research reveals, their substantial level of exposure to deforestation is putting the future at risk. It does not have to be this way, deforestation is a solvable crisis. There is a wealth of information, guidance, and data available for pension funds to take practical steps today and ensure they are globally responsible.
Pension funds, like all financial institutions, have a unique and critical role to play in working to eliminate deforestation, conversion, and associated human rights abuses from global supply chains. Pension funds like those in the Wales Pension Partnership have an incredible opportunity to use their existing partnership to share knowledge, collaborate, and eliminate deforestation, conversion, and associated human rights abuse risks and impacts from their investments, and they can do this by:
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