Unlocking Private Finance for Forests and Sustainable Land Use: Sharing Lessons and Opportunities to Scale up Investment in the LATAM Region
Investment in nature-based solutions must double by 2025 and triple by 2030 to meet global climate and biodiversity targets according to the United Nations Environment Programme’s State of Finance for Nature Report. Accounting for only 17% of current investment in nature-based solutions, private finance must rapidly...
Campo Capital and Impact Earth Approved by the Restoration Seed Capital Facility to Accelerate Private Investments in Landscape Restoration
The Restoration Seed Capital Facility (RSCF) has approved Colombia-based, Campo Capital as the first partner to qualify for new fund development support under the Facility’s Support Line 1. In addition, RSCF has approved Impact Earth as a new partner to receive support to identify and...
New Forests is driving restoration investment markets in Southeast Asia
New Forests is a global investment manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, with a diversified portfolio of approximately USD 7 billion in nature-based assets including sustainable timber plantations and conservation areas, carbon and conservation finance projects, agriculture, timber processing and infrastructure investments. New...
Sharing Lessons Learnt from the Restoration Seed Capital Facility with Arbaro Advisors and Ecotierra
On 8 June 2023, RSCF held a knowledge exchange webinar where RSCF partners Arbaro Advisors and ECOTIERRA shared valuable lessons learnt on developing strong pipelines of bankable, restoration-focused projects. Hanna Skelly, Managing Director of Arbaro Advisors, highlighted the ongoing need for targeted fund manager support to...
Practical Guidance to Develop Environmental & Social Impact Frameworks
To meet global climate, biodiversity and land degradation targets, private investment in sustainable land use must rapidly scale up, according to the United Nations Environment Programme’s State of Finance for Nature report. Fortunately, there is a gradual but persistent move by banks, investors and corporations to go...
Building Local Climate Resilience with Collective Collaboration
Global demand for coffee is a driving force of tropical deforestation. With small-holder farmers producing 60% of the world’s coffee, new funding models are required to support small-holders to transition to sustainable agricultural practices that protect forests, restore degraded lands, maintain healthy waterways, enhance biodiversity...
A Community-First Approach to Landscape Restoration
Ecotierra places communities at the heart of its approach to landscape restoration. Founded in 2011, Ecotierra works directly with small-scale producers to support sustainable land use practices that drive local economic development, combat climate change and reverse land degradation. However, in order to expand this...
Arbaro Advisors successfully closes three RSCF-supported investments
Arbaro Advisors has successfully closed three RSCF-supported investments for the Arbaro Fund in Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala, resulting in the first reflows to the facility. The Arbaro Fund is an impact investment fund dedicated to sustainable forestry in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa, following...
Partner Announcement: SWC and New Forests
New Partners approved by RSCF to Accelerate Private Investments in Landscape Restoration Frankfurt and Geneva, 1 December 2022. The Restoration Seed Capital Facility (RSCF) has approved The Shared Wood Company (SWC) and New Forests as two new partners to qualify for the Facility’s support. The Facility will provide SWC and New Forests with...
Financing Sustainable Land Use Through Knowledge Exchange
On 22 and 23 November 2022, the Restoration Seed Capital Facility team hosted an in-person Land Use Finance Knowledge Exchange Event in Cambridge, U.K. together with the AGRI3 Fund and UNEP-WCMC's Environmental and Social Knowledge Exchange Network (ESKEN) community. The two-day, peer-to-peer learning event brought together...