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Helena Viñes Fiestas, head of sustainability research at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, talks about the steps her bank is taking to investigate sourcing and land use practices in its portfolio.

James Cameron, chairman of the Overseas Development Institute, says his experience in both the investment and social and environmental development sectors has taught him that you cannot success in one without the other.

CIFOR’s director for forests and governance research, Steven Lawry, speaks on the side of the Global Landscape Forum on investment in London. He says corporate leaders have got the message that social and environmental degradation threatens their bottom line – yet much work remains to be done.

David Pitt-Watson is Executive Fellow at the London Business School and Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative. After chairing the closing session of the Global Landscapes Forum on investment in London, he says there is now potential for finance to play its essential role and take money from where it is to where it is […]

Andy White is Coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative, an umbrella group of 14 non-profit organisations promoting forest and land use policy reform. Speaking from the Global Landscapes Forum on investment, he says settings such as the Interlaken Group now allow NGOs to engage directly with the private sector.

Originally posted by Thomas Reuters Foundation, By Laurie Goering LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Protecting the world’s dwindling forests and making small farms more productive will cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually – money governments and charities do not have to spend, experts said at a London conference. Private investors could fill the gap, […]