Footprint für Finanzen
Diese Seite ist nur auf Englisch verfügbar.The international debt crisis that has roiled world markets in recent years has challenged long-held assumptions of how to best measure a country’s wealth and gage its economic stability.
Monitoring social and economic variables alone, a growing number of investors now understand, is no longer enough to understand nations’ competitiveness. In a resource-constrained world, a critical component of economic success will be through careful biocapacity management. But there has been no methodology that enables credit rating agencies, investors and financial information providers to integrate such ecological data in their respective risk models.
In October 2011, Global Footprint Network launched a two-year project with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), Volans and leading financial institutions to investigate the links between ecological and financial risks at the country level, and introduce more ecologically informed risk analysis into the market.
Through Ecological Footprint resource accounting and other analyses, Global Footprint Network and its partners can measure a nation’s true assets and deficits—the wealth and vulnerabilities that are not currently included in credit risk models and government bond ratings. This is data that’s critically important to the finance industry.
This ground-breaking project will substantiate the business case for financial institutions and ratings agencies to include ecological criteria as a key component of country risk analysis.
Please contact Gemma Cranston, Senior Scientist gemma@footprintnetwork.org to learn more about Global Footprint Network, UNEP FI and Volans’ project, Including Ecological Risks into Country Credit Rating.
