Firms making up more than half of Asia’s stock market value are vulnerable to deforestation, species loss and other nature-related risks, according to a new report, as governments ramp up regulations and industries continue to deplete the planet’s resources.
Some 58% of Asia-Pacific stock market capitalization comprises companies in sectors that are at least moderately dependent on the natural world’s status quo, the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change said in a preview of a report Wednesday. Exchanges in New Zealand, Taiwan and South Korea had some of the highest dependencies, the $35 trillion investor group found.
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