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Finance for Nature in Nature
Increasing the likelihood of successful adoption of ‘The Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’ at COP15
Alongside the need to protect nature for its own sake, nature-based solutions to climate change have huge potential to prevent temperature rises. However, investments which harm nature are currently outfunded 100:1 compared to those which protect nature.
Building on an existing programme of collaboration between UNDP and the Scottish Government, our COP26 Finance for Nature in Nature Hub was based at Ross Priory, on the banks of the stunning Loch Lomond, situated close to Glasgow city centre.
Topics included:
- Taskforce on nature-related financial disclosure
- Aligned accountability
- Deforestation-free finance
- Investing in nature
- Nature based solutions
- Scotland’s natural economy
To help mainstream and mobilise finance for nature from public and private sources the Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI), in partnership with Scottish Government, Scottish Forum on Natural Capital, Global Canopy, Nature for Climate and UNDP, delivered a hybrid ‘Finance for Nature’ programme during COP26.
The programme brought together, in-person and virtually, leading global experts working to enable transformative change towards a nature positive economy along with senior figures from the finance sector to help build nature positive economies and societies. It featured a series of practical sessions to highlight specific opportunities, understand barriers, create solutions; and foster future collaboration between nature and the global ethical finance community.
Increasing the likelihood of successful adoption of ‘The Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’ at COP15
On the 4th and 5th of November, the Global Ethical Finance Initiative, in partnership with the Scottish Government, the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital, Global Canopy, Nature for Climate and UNDP delivered a hybrid ‘Finance for Nature’ programme during COP26.
Key speakers included: Ms Kate Forbes, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy at the Scottish Government, Usha Rao-Monari, Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the UNDP and Emma Howard Boyd Chair of the Environment Agency.
The programme featured a series of practical sessions to highlight specific opportunities, understand barriers, create solutions, and foster future collaboration between nature and the global ethical finance community.
Find out more about Finance for Nature in Nature
Finance for Nature
Watch Jamison Ervin, Manager of the Finance for Nature programme at UNDP, deliver a stark warning about the devastating impacts humanity is having on nature and biodiversity, whilst highlighting some of the practical steps the finance industry can take to ensure they are investing in a future for all life on earth.
100 Days to COP | Finance for Nature | Allan Watt
Watch GEFI’s Senior Advisor Allan Watt introduce our Finance for Nature workstream as part of our 100 Days to COP campaign.
Scotland's £bn Challenge for Natural Capital
Listen to Dr Hannah Rudman, a co-leader of both the Thriving Natural Capital Challenge Centre and the Finance Pioneers network, in her podcast exploring three exciting projects in Scotland that are securing investment for nature-based solutions. In this episode, Hannah learns how individuals, communities and the public and private sector are coming together to attract the first billion pounds Scotland needs for lots of nature-based projects to start-up.