This guidebook discusses key challenges in scaling finance for Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and provides a clear roadmap for financial institutions to follow. It highlights how financial institutions can tap into NBS-related opportunities across three domains: risk mitigation and portfolio resilience; sustainable financial growth; and emerging market opportunities and financial innovations.

Join the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations throughout 2025 for a dynamic global webinar series focused on sustainable forest-based bioeconomy approaches. From data, policies and supply chains to financing and partnerships – discover key themes and understand how to unlock the forest sector’s transformative potential for decreasing reliance on non-renewable resources in a sustainable bioeconomy and transition to climate-positive societies. Attendees will contribute to identifying globally relevant shared goals, critical challenges and priorities that can infor

Forestry is emerging as a critical sector for impact investors, offering opportunities to address climate change, biodiversity loss and economic development while generating competitive financial returns. In 2024, 15% of investors made at least one forestry investment, and just under half expect to increase their allocation to the forestry sector in the next five years, according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) State of the Market report.

Incubated within The Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales and launched by Prince William in 2020, The Earthshot Prize searches for extraordinary solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges. In July 2022, The Earthshot Prize was formally established as an independent charity to continue to deliver global change.

Convergence is a global network for blended finance, with the goal to increase private investment in emerging markets and developing economies to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Agreement. Its members include private investors looking to diversify their portfolios, businesses seeking capital, as well as public agencies and philanthropic foundations looking to make their funds go further.