Topic: “Business and Finance on a path towards meaningful biodiversity reporting?” Exploring challenges and potential avenues of transformation
Speaker: Shruti Kashyap
Date: May 7, 2026
Time: 13.00-14.00
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Organizers: Sustainable Finance Lab
ABSTRACT: Corporate biodiversity reporting is increasingly central to efforts to address biodiversity loss and its socio-economic implications, yet existing frameworks and tools remain limited in their ability to produce information that is relevant, reliable, and decision-useful. Drawing on a recent review of academic literature and biodiversity assessment tools, this seminar examines key challenges for meaningful biodiversity reporting in business and finance. It further discusses how biodiversity impacts may propagate through risk pathways into financial and economic systems, and how different valuation logics used in finance and accounting can influence translations of ecological impacts into information for decision-making. The seminar concludes by reflecting on possible pathways for strengthening biodiversity reporting through closer integration between ecological science and corporate reporting and governance frameworks.
BIO: Shruti Kashyap is a multidisciplinary risk and resilience scholar and postdoctoral researcher at Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere (GEDB) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and an affiliated researcher at the Sustainable Finance Lab. Shruti routinely combines theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives from law, economics, accounting, and governance to develop more inclusive approaches to risk in the financial sector, with a particular focus on moving beyond shareholder-centric models. She holds a Juris Doctor in environmental law from the University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law, and a PhD in Business Administration from Uppsala University, and has prior experience with institutions including the UN, WTO, and Morgan Stanley.
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