This report provides an update on the deployment of blended finance in LDCs and analyses its potential role in helping those countries recover from the COVID-19 crisis. It highlights the importance unlocking green finance, prioritising green and resilient recovery projects, and investing in green jobs. It also shares examples of blended green finance, including the Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility, Land Degradation Neutrality Fund, Global Fund for Coral Reefs, Althelia Sustainable Ocean Fund, Meloy Fund, Circulate Capital’s Ocean Fund, and more!

A study opportunity with GGKP partner UNU-FLORES
PhD Researcher — Biodiversity Economics

Why Natural Capital analysis by NCC

Realizing the values of natural capital for inclusive, sustainable development: Informing China’s new ecological development strategy

Improvements in ecosystem services
from investments in natural capital

Blue and Green Cities

Missing metrics: climate vs nature
Data on nature-related risks is more complicated than for climate

Just like its precursor did in the climate space, the emerging Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has gathered significant mainstream finance sector interest. With a group of new members joining today - including the Brazilian development bank, BNDES, clothing giant H&M, and the world’s largest meat producer, JBS - the initiative’s Informal Working Group now totals 73 members, including over 40 financial institutions. But while the TNFD builds on the successful Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the new nature-focused Taskforce faces unique challenges: when it comes to data, metrics and methodologies, there are critical differences between climate and nature.

Save the date: Review of the second order draft of the chapters and the first order draft of the summary for policymakers of the values assessment