Barclays further integrates nature-related financing criteria into its Sustainable and Transition Finance Frameworks

Barclays, with support from The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC), enhanced its Sustainable and Transition Finance Frameworks in February 2026 to integrate nature-related activities that contribute to the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Barclays is the first major bank to include nature transition activities as eligible against its target of facilitating $1 trillion of Sustainable and Transition Finance by 2030.

Nature-related activities span across three dimensions:

• Enabling (e.g., technologies to prevent deforestation and monitor biodiversity)
• Reduction (e.g., adoption of regenerative agriculture practices)
• Restoration (e.g., rehabilitation, restoration and conservation of ecosystems from a degraded state and rewilding)

TBC’s support is helping position Barclays at the forefront of the nature finance agenda, maintaining momentum following the recent publication of Barclays’ nature risk assessment approach.

TBC’s advisory builds on its broader experience supporting financial institutions and development finance institutions, including the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank to determine the positive impact pathways of finance for nature, and what it is defensible to label as nature finance. It also complements TBC’s ongoing work with the Nature Positive Initiative on state of nature metrics, which can form the basis for robustly measuring state of nature outcomes.

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