Restoration Seed Capital Facility Annual Report 2022

RSCF has achieved significant environmental and social impacts in its first full year of operations, with four partners onboarded and new interest in the Facility’s support creating a positive outlook for 2023. Read more about RSCF’s supported activities, partners and future priorities in the Facility’s Annual...

Closing the Nature Finance Gap: Practical Solutions to Mobilize Private Investment for Landscape Restoration

6th Global Landscapes Forum Investment Case Symposium White Paper This white paper summarizes the key messages of the session "Unlocking Private Finance for Landscape Restoration: Practical Solutions to Mobilize Investment" presented at the 6th Global Landscapes Forum Investment Case Symposium. Key messages: • Investment in nature-based solutions must...

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Finance for Nature: Equitable, Net Zero and Positive

UNEP State of Finance for Nature Report 2022 Climate, biodiversity, and land degradation goals will be out of reach unless investments into nature-based solutions quickly ramp up to USD 384 billion per year by 2025, more than double of the current USD 154 billion per year. View...

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Land Use Finance Impact Hub

A collection of tools and guidance to help you harmonise environmental and social impact monitoring for sustainable land use finance, developed by the UN Environment Programme. The Impact Hub is a resource developed with and for impact fund and other sustainably-focused financial institutions and...

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RSCF Brochure

A new facility to promote investment in forest landscape restoration Supporting forest restoration in developing countries, contributing to climate adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity, and sustainable livelihoods. Learn more ...

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Investing in Forest Restoration, Investing in our Future

Why is the RSCF needed? More investment in forest restoration is needed: The scale of the challenge of deforestation and land degradation is daunting. Objectives will not be met without significant investment, public and private. The Restoration Seed Capital Facility is a financing facility aiming to promote...

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RSCF Launch Event & Video

Learn more about RSCF's mission in this video published along with the launch. Launch Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYDy9druKlU Launch Event Listen back to the UNEP Launch Event of the Restoration Seed Capital Facility here. ...