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Unlock finance to protect
and restore biodiversity
BIOFIN-EU aims to establish a comprehensive framework and technology that fosters the necessary conditions for nature-positive investments.
BIOFIN-EU is actively innovating and experimenting with novel approaches for capturing, aggregating, and analysing biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) data. The goal is to minimise transaction and reporting costs associated with finance that supports the protection and restoration of biodiversity.
Objectives
Objectives
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Create and test solutions to quickly and effectively gather and share valuable biodiversity and Ecosystem Services data.
Understand preferences and regulations of capital owners, financial institutions, and NbS-providers to integrate governance aspects into business models, financial instruments, and associated technologies.
Develop trustworthy, accurate, and fair data sharing of biodiversity and Ecosystem Services outcomes to reduce transaction costs and other barriers to nature finance.
Design and test new business models and biodiversity-linked investments that maintain protections for NbS-providers and their communities while securing long-horizon benefits for NbS-promoters.
Integrate relevant processes, systems and reporting and disclosure requirements and support organisations in directing financial flows towards biodiversity protection and restoration.
Build knowledge and skills among current and future finance professionals and decision-makers and build a community to advance the implementation of the regulations to co-develop solutions and accelerate the financial flow of funds towards biodiversity-linked activity.
Examine i) opportunities arising from specifically, nature positive investment by analysis preferences among shareholders, bond investors, consumers and retirees; ii) transition costs associated with the re-allocation of finance from destructive economic activity; iii) financial models associated with corporate performance as well as fund management performance.
The NbS Dashboard
by BIOFIN-EU
The NbS Dashboard provides a cohesive structure to categorise NbS, guide good governance structures and associated financial instruments and business models.
10 Learning sites
The BIOFIN-EU Learning Sites are different locations, where the NbS Dashboard will be co-designed, tested and validated, with the active participation of different stakeholders. Each learning site will contribute to the design and testing of a different nature-based solution.
Northwest of Ireland
Waters of Life
Northwest of Ireland
Wild Atlantic Nature
Pipiripau Basin, Brazil
NbS Governance Structures, Water Quality & Population Health.
São Paulo, Brazil
Unlocking private finance to scale up local communities ES protection and restoration.
Pró Mananciais Program of State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Climate adaptation and risk mitigation using new financial instruments and business models.
Lombardy Region, Italy
Standardising Public-Private Contracts and Data Sharing to Scale-Up Mainstream Finance.
Brenta River, Italy
Business model design to redirect financial flows for water conservation and water quality. (LIFE Brenta Project)
National Park Appennino Tosco-Emiliano, Italy
Financial Innovation (Biodiv. Credits) - ES Impacts, Corporate Preferences and SFT Compliance.
Mojmilo Urban Forest, Sarajevo
Finance for Urban NbS and Human Health.
Malmö city, Sweden
Malmo Harbour Restoration
Reinforcing the EU's position as a pioneer
in financing the protection and
restoration of biodiversity.
Expected Results
to allow discovery, purchase, use and contribution of ES/NbS raw data and provide various analytics services.
to bring together high-quality biodiversity and Ecosystem Services data from various NbS sources.
to develop accounting standards, financial services regulation and related policy guidance.
to support the decision-making towards NbS lending/investments.
to transfer new knowledge through training, business simulation, case studies and mentoring courses of the BIOFIN-EU activities.
