We are thrilled to bring you our monthly newsletters, keeping you up to date with all the latest news from the Climate Finance Unit. If you have anything you want to share, contact us: unep-cfu@un.org.
2022
- New IFACC collaborating partners announced
- GFFN co-investment platform to tackle global food security challenges
- How do you effectively deploy climate finance?
- &Green announced investment in Brazilian Company FS Agrisolutions
- AGRI3 Sector Paper: Indonesia
- New &Green Fund’s Investment: Indonesian palm oil company PT Hilton Duta Lestari
- IFACC Knowledge Hub now live
- Food System Transformation in Turbulent Times – Interview with Good Food Finance Network Partners
- Financing a nature-based future: Why is natural capital important to our economic system?
- Good Food Finance Week: Investing in Sustainable Food Systems
- Unlocking Private Finance for Restoration
- Finance for a Forest-Positive Future: the transition to sustainable cattle and soy production
- Are you an ecopreneur developing a business to restore natural ecosystems in Kenya? Apply for the Restoration Factory's incubation program
- #voicefromTLFF investment in a bamboo agroforestry project in Indonesia
- An Entrepreneur's Experience: The Role of Finance in Enabling Sustainable Development
- A Deeper Dive into the Damages Caused by Fossil Fuel Subsidies Podcast
- Register for IFACC's upcoming webinar: The Transition to Sustainable Cattle and Soy Production: from Commitment to Implementation
- Restoration Seed Capital Facility at the World Forestry Congress
- Financing Nature-based Solutions for a Green and Inclusive Recovery in Latin America
- Seaweed Pizza Anyone?
- An Entrepreneur’s Experience: The Role of Finance in Enabling Sustainable Development
- The Land Use Finance Impact Hub
- The Good Food Finance Week
- &Green Fund’s first investment in Colombia
- Six actions to catalyze blended finance for better food systems
- Nature-based solutions spending needs to rise four-fold
- Open Call for Best Practices II - What do investments in nature-based solutions look like?
- Leadership required to catalyze private capital inflow for nature
- Pathway to transitioning towards a net-zero and nature positive economy
- Newly Released Report: The State of Finance for Nature in the G20
2021
- What can investments do with Bamboo?
- Managing Environmental and Social Risks in Land-Use Finance
- Open Call for Best Practices - What do investments in nature-based solutions look like?
- Mobilising Private Finance - Experience from a Decade of Decarbonisation
- Financial institutions and agribusinesses commit USD 3 Billion to sustainable production
- The Restoration Seed Capital Facility supports Arbaro Advisors and Ecotierra
- Mobilising Finance for Forests Fund’s first investment goes to &Green
- New Responsible Commodities Facility to promote zero-deforestation soy cultivation in Brazil
- How to increase investment in restoration finance: the case for a system-wide approach
- Tracking private finance for forests: approaches and opportunities for tropical forest countries
- Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco
- A Multi-Billion-Dollar Opportunity: Repurposing agricultural support to transform food systems
- Finance leaders join forces to launch Good Food Finance Network
- Scaling up critical finance for sustainable food systems through blended finance
- Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco
- A Multi-billion-dollar Opportunity: Repurposing Agricultural Support to Transform Food Systems
- Jurisdictional approaches to land use finance
- Corporate Investments into Forestry & Biodiversity Summit
- Investing in sustainable cattle farming - Integrated crop-livestock system
- Why financing the transformation of our food systems to nature positive production is critical before 2030
- Blended finance has the potential to address the climate financing gap
- Enhancing capital flows to transition towards a net-zero, nature positive economy
- Mobilizing restoration finance at the local level
- Climate Finance Unit at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in September
- Investing in sustainable sourcing - Forest positive and socially inclusive palm oil production
- Investing in sustainable cattle farming - Integrated crop-livestock system
- Training on deforestation risk management for the Central Bank of Brazil
- Land Use Financing Positive Impact Indicators Directory
- Demonstrating positive environmental and social impact of sustainable land use finance
- Private investment for restoration: Addressing the pipeline bottleneck
- State of Finance for Nature: Investments in nature-based solutions need to triple by 2030
- Nature finance action track
- Investing in nature: what are the models?
- Harmonizing positive environmental & social impact in sustainable land-use finance
- New UNEP-Canada partnership to improve rural livelihoods in Indonesia
- Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility
- Risk sharing between sectors at the heart of the solution in the lead up to the UN Food Systems Summit
- The Restoration Factory: A business accelerator to achieve the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration goals
- Forest and landscape restoration as an economic enterprise and driver of job creation
- Valuing Tropical Landscapes Finance: Lessons and Opportunities in Indonesia
- Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco
- UNEP Restoration Factory: a new incubator for restoration entrepreneurs
- Accelerating capital market access for restoration using securitization: promo-ting the rise of nature-backed securities
- Joint SDG Fund launches historic investment portfolio
- How to enable finance in game-changing food systems solutions?
- Caught on camera trap: Three Sumatran tigers in Bukit Tigapuluh National Park
- &Green Fund's new transaction in cattle tracking in the Amazon and Cerrado
- Green Finance for Sustainable Landscapes: a new project to increase capital flows towards restoration and deforestation-free agriculture
- Making intercropping more economically accessible to smallholder farmers
- Restoration Seed Capital Facility - Making investment in forest landscape restoration happen
- AGRI3 Fund’s first transactions in Brazil and China provide initial ‘proof-of-concept’ how to apply debt finance to sustainable land use
- Open Call for Best Practices - What do investments in nature-based solutions look like?
- The Restoration Factory program is recruiting volunteer mentors to support early-stage entrepreneurs
- Coffee, environmental degradation and smallholder livelihoods
- The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF) reveals its new visual identity and website
2020
- The Restoration Seed Capital Facility is up and running
- Why standardising environmental and social impact in land-use investments is a priority?
- Business Case - Analysis of Low-Carbon Livestock in Costa Rica
- Mobilizing restoration finance at the local level
- Video: Restoration Seed Capital Facility
- Agri3 Fund ready to scale up operations and identify a pipeline of investments
- &Green Fund's new transactions in sustainable soy cattle and palm oil production
- The Business case for sustainable coffee production in Viet Nam, publication launch, 9 July 2020
- Framing Workshop for State of Finance & Investment into Nature-based Solutions, 8 July 2020
Issue 02, 2020
- Standardising Procedures for Environmental & Social Impacts to Stimulate Sustainable Land-Use Finance
- UN Joint SDG Fund
- The business case for sustainable espresso; what is the future for coffee production in Viet Nam?
- Business case analysis of low-carbon livestock production in Costa Rica
- New video: & Green Fund - Catalysing $2 billion for tropical forest restoration
Issue 01, 2020
- AGRI3 Fund launched with Dutch Government and Rabobank as anchor investors
- Global Landscapes Forum Investment Case
- UNEP partners with &Green Fund
- &Green Fund
- Knowledge exchange event on demonstrating environmental and social impacts
- Environment & Social Impact – meet Climate Finance Unit's team E&S!
