Best Practice Guidelines to Bridge the Gap between Biodiversity and Finance: Key Elements for the Design of Sustainable Projects
This best practice guideline describes methodological steps for biodiversity finance and investments in Nature-based Solutions (NbS). The findings highlight that while NbS address urgent biodiversity and climate challenges, private investments remain limited due to mismatched investor and ecological requirements. The document identifies the important role of the intermediary and five core elements that enable them to align local needs with private capital. These insights emphasize the role of biodiversity-finance intermediation to convert context-specific ecological interventions into bankable opportunities.
Best Practice Guidelines to Bridge the Gap between Biodiversity and Finance: Outlining the Critical Role of Intermediaries
This best practice guideline describes methodological steps for biodiversity finance and investments in Nature-based Solutions (NbS). The findings highlight that while NbS address urgent biodiversity and climate challenges, private investments remain limited due to mismatched investor and ecological requirements. The document identifies the important role of the intermediary and five core elements that enable them to align local needs with private capital. Specialised landscape intermediaries are essential to align land managers, financial institutions, and govenments for scalable impact.
Best Practice Approaches to Financing the Forestry Transition
Afforestation provides important environmental benefits, but current policies and market structures, like the Common Agricultural Policy, favor agriculture, limiting forestry expansion. An expert stakeholder analysis shows that while stakeholders value native afforestation’s environmental benefits, financial barriers hinder its growth. To address this, innovative financial tools and management strategies are needed to make the shift from agriculture to native forestry economically viable for landowners.
Designing Circular Biomethane Markets in Industrial Agriculture
Ireland’s dairy sector must cut emissions and nutrient pollution while maintaining output. Biorefining, particularly anaerobic digestion (AD), offers a solution by producing biomethane and nutrient-rich digestate. This best practice guide synthesises findings from a three-round modified Delphi study involving 61 stakeholders from dairy processing, finance, academia and public policy, identifying the structural enablers of a functional circular biomethane market.
