Nature is the essential algorithm for the future of humanity, yet significantly underfinanced. It is time to act by doubling investment in nature-based solutions by 2025 and eliminating nature-negative finance flows.
The State of Finance for Nature is a series that aims to quantify public and private finance flows to nature-based solutions and the extent to which finance flows are aligned with global targets and the investment needed to limit global warming to below 1.5°C, halt biodiversity loss and achieve land degradation neutrality. It has a broader scope than the inaugural report in 2021.
With sufficient finance, nature-based solutions have a ‘triple’ win potential that is particularly alluring given the current global economic situation.
Climate, biodiversity, and land degradation goals will be out of reach unless investments into nature-based solutions quickly ramp up to USD 384 billion/year by 2025, more than double of the current USD 154 billion/year.
The COP15 framework calls for mobilizing at least US$200 billion per year from public and private sources for biodiversity-related funding by 2030. Also by 2030, it seeks to raise international financial flows from developed to developing countries to at least US$30 billion per year
Nature-based Solutions in cities presents a fast-growing, time-sensitive opportunity to reshape the way investments are made in nature. Cities are responsible for 80 per cent of the world’s GDP, making them critical players in the global economy
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