The private sector is often presented as a great opportunity for nature conservation as their financial resources often far exceed those of governments and philanthropy.
In this session, we will discuss how investment blueprints for conservation can help cover the current biodiversity funding gap, highlighting mechanisms to unlock and diversify other capital flows for biodiversity and environmental assets, and consequently ensuring a sustainable flow of ecosystem services for the future.
The discussion will also introduce three concrete examples from Brazil: a forest restoration business (Belterra), a sociobiodiversity sustainable chain (Tobasa) and a community cooperative for timber forest management (Coomflona). We aim to demonstrate how investors can address these crises by allocating investments to businesses that generate financial returns while also producing significant positive socio-environmental impacts.