Fauna & Flora International collaborates with Gaia Values for the
management of the Natural Value Initiative
Cecilia Repinski, Director of Gaia Values, will alongside this role function as the Acting
Director of the Natural Value Initiative starting August 2012.
About Fauna & Flora International:
Fauna & Flora International (FFI), founded in 1903, is the world’s first international
conservation organisation. The mission of FFI is to act to conserve threatened species and
ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and
take into account human needs. FFI is also one of the first international environmental nongovernmental organisations to engage seriously with the private sector, helping companies to
manage their dependencies and impacts on the environment through constructive
engagement. For more information please visit: www.fauna-flora.org.
About Gaia Values:
Gaia Values is a Sweden-based not-for-profit environmental think tank. Gaia Values’s mission is
to safeguard the Earth’s natural capital by supporting a mind shift in how decision makers
perceive and manage these assets. Gaia Values engages businesses, financial institutions and
policy makers by raising awareness and putting forward tools and recommendations to enable
action. For more information please visit www.gaiavalues.org.
About the collaboration:
Fauna & Flora International has been the leading partner of the Natural Value Initiative for the
past 5 years. The Initiative was set up to help financial institutions understand and mainstream
considerations of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Through the collaboration, Gaia Values
will be managing the Natural Value Initiative on behalf of Fauna and Flora International.
FFI and Gaia Values share similar objectives and both organisations identify and value the
important role that financial institutions can play to stimulate improved management of
biodiversity and ecosystem services within the private sector. FFI and Gaia Values will
therefore identify opportunities for collaboration to help financial institutions integrate
considerations to biodiversity and ecosystem services into their financial decision making
processes.
Cecilia Repinski’s background:
Cecilia Repinski has been engaging financial institutions around biodiversity and ecosystem
services since 2006. At the World Resources Institute (WRI) Cecilia Repinski demonstrated
how the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) could achieve their development goals more
effectively by mainstreaming considerations to biodiversity and ecosystem services in their
project financing. In addition to the MDBs, Cecilia Repinski has also worked with Equator
Principle Banks, institutional investors such as the Swedish AP Funds, and asset managers. At
GES Investment Services, a rating agency, Cecilia Repinski worked with product development
and created a water risk rating methodology.