Funders / Investors

The global community has committed to halting and reversing biodiversity loss, yet the scale of public investment falls far short of what is needed to achieve these objectives. In policy discussions, it is widely recognized that governments alone are fiscally constrained and cannot fully close the biodiversity investment gap. This creates a clear opportunity for private capital to play a pivotal role in shaping sustainable outcomes. Therefore, national and international policy discussions, e.g. around the implementation of the  Nature Restoration Regulation, emphasize the need to upscale private investment in nature. Historically, the most successful mechanisms for attracting private capital have been national mandatory compliance markets, demonstrating that well-structured policy signals can mobilize significant investment flows. Therefore, we can find a great deal of research, innovation and policy discussions across Europe about upscaling nature markets, both voluntary and mandatory. Numerous policies are aiming to upscale private investment in nature. Some focus on creating nature markets both internationally and domestically, and others attempt to incentivize private institutions to invest more in nature for example to address their nature-related risks under mechanisms such as the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure, or the EU's corporate sustainability reporting directive. For investors, these developments signal a rapidly expanding landscape of financial opportunities that generate measurable environmental impact, offering pathways to both mitigate risk and create value while contributing to the urgent global goal of biodiversity restoration.