- Oil and gas investments harmful to nature fell from $990B in 2020 to $519B in 2023, signaling early shifts in financial flows - ‘Nature-related risks are material to financial stability,’ report author Michael Konig-Sykorova tells Anadolu ISTANBUL A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that for every dollar invested in protecting nature, $30 is spent destroying it. The State of Finance for Nature 2026 report builds on UNEP’s 2023 analysis that found government