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...
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...
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...
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...
Forests as the panacea
The dilemma between protection and utilization Abstract Corporates are committing large amounts of financing for forest protection and restoration; The increasing number of urban dwellers, mainly in developing countries, will drive timber consumption to unseen levels in the next decades; Existing forests and plantations are unlikely to feed the...
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...
Challenges and Opportunities to Scale Up Private Investment in Nature Based Solutions
On 24 May 2022, RSCF held a virtual knowledge exchange webinar with guest speakers, Susie Shuford-Lazarz of FMO, Edit Kiss of Revalue Nature and Sylvain Goupille of Octobre on the challenges of scaling up private investment in nature-based solutions (NBS) and the opportunities to overcome...