Challenges and Opportunities for Biodiversity in Finance Education

This technical article examines the challenges and opportunities of bringing biodiversity into higher-education finance teaching. The challenges it identifies are that business schools often stop short of real curricular change on sustainability. The political backdrop has also become less supportive, and the research base on biodiversity finance is young, fragmented and lacks a single standard measure comparable to tCO₂e. The authors treat these gaps as opportunities. They see room for new research that feeds into teaching, and they note that emerging evidence already ties biodiversity to core finance concepts such as risk, valuation, profitability and governance. This means biodiversity can be built into existing modules rather than added as a separate elective. They call for interdisciplinary collaboration and for active, problem-focused pedagogies such as case studies, quizzes and simulations. In practice, the BIOFIN-EU Knowledge Accelerators (a glossary, an interactive quiz and finance-oriented case studies) are presented as accessible entry points to help lecturers build basic biodiversity-finance literacy, so that it informs decisions that unlock funding for nature protection and restoration.