Climate & Company joins Think7 Task Force on Biodiversity Finance under the French G7 Presidency

Climate & Company is contributing to the Think7 (T7) engagement group for the French G7 Presidency 2026, as part of the Task Force on Standardising and strengthening accountability for biodiversity finance.

Think7 (T7) is the official G7 engagement group bringing together leading think tanks and research institutions to provide evidence-based policy recommendations to G7 leaders. In 2026, the T7 process is jointly coordinated by the Paris-based think tank IDDRI and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) under the theme “Cooperating in a brutal world”, reflecting heightened geopolitical tensions and the need for renewed international dialogue.

Climate & Company’s contribution to the T7

Climate & Company is participating in Task Force 3 under Pillar 2 – Financing Sustainable Development, which focuses on standardising and strengthening accountability for biodiversity finance. The task force addresses a key challenge in global biodiversity finance: the lack of comparable and aligned methodologies across public development banks and private financial actors. Its work will explore concrete solutions to improve the alignment of definitions, metrics, and reporting frameworks across public and private biodiversity finance.

The task force is co-chaired by Dr. Naoko Ishii (University of Tokyo, former CEO of the Global Environment Facility) and Shuva Raha (Council on Energy, Environment and Water – CEEW), and brings together experts from think tanks, financial institutions and policy organisations across G7 and non-G7 countries.

Climate & Company is represented by Elisabeth Hoch, contributing expertise on sustainable finance, accountability frameworks, and the alignment of biodiversity finance with international policy objectives.

Outputs of the T7

The T7 will deliver a set of solution-oriented policy papers (one per task force) and a final communiqué by March 2026, feeding into G7 discussions ahead of the G7 Summit in Evian (15–17 June 2026).

More information on the task force is available via the T7 Task Force presentation here.