A-Z Site Index

• &Green Fund

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• 2012 Study on Forest Financing

A

• A brief explainer of how REDD+ finance works
• A guide to investing in collectively held resources
• A Review of Forest Financing in Africa
• About the Clearing House
• About Us
• Adaptation Benefit Mechanism (ABM)
• Adaptation Fund
• AEON Environmental Foundation
• Africa
• Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF)
• African Development Bank (AfDB)
• African Economic Outlook 2023
• African Union Development Agency NEPAD
• Agence Française de Développement (AfD)
• AGRI3 Fund
• Agroforestry: Opportunities and Challenges in Timor-Leste
• Alcoa
• Althelia Funds
• Amazon Fund
• Americas
• Arbaro Advisors
• Asia and the Pacific
• Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation (APFNet)
• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Asian Species Action Partnership
• Audubon Naturalist Society

B

• Bankable Nature Solutions
• Banking on Protected Areas : Promoting Sustainable Protected Area Tourism to Benefit Local Economies
• Banyan Tree Global Foundation
• Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries
• Benefit Sharing at Scale : Good Practices for Results-Based Land Use Programs
• Best Practices in Financing Protected Areas - Lessons for Southeastern Europe
• Better Finance, Better Food: Case Study Catalogue
• Bezos Earth Fund
• BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes
• BIOPAMA
• Blueprints for Private Investment in Ecosystem Restoration: Lessons from Case Studies
• British Ecological Society
• British International Investment
• Browse our database on Financing Opportunities
• Browse our database on Good Practices and Lessons Learned
• Browse our database on Learning Materials

C

• Carbon finance for the forest sector to achieve the Goals of the Paris Agreement: A training & dialogue with Indigenous Peoples
• Caribbean Biodiversity Fund
• Case studies on: Access to finance For forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs)
• Central African Forest Initiative
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Christensen Fund
• Climate and Development Knowledge Network
• Climate and Land Use Alliance
• Climate Change and Select Financial Instruments: An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa
• Climate Finance for Sustaining Peace: Making Climate Finance Work for Conflict-Affected and Fragile Contexts
• Climate finance in the agriculture and land use sector - global and regional trends between 2000 and 2018
• Climate Finance Toolkit for Europe and Central Asia
• Climate Investment Funds
• Climate Summit
• Closing the Nature Finance Gap: Practical Solutions to Mobilize Private Investment for Landscape Restoration
• Community Funds In The Brazilian Amazon: New Tools to Defend Rights and Combat Climate Change
• Compañía Española de Financiación del Desarrollo (COFIDES)
• Comparative study of carbon rights in the context of jurisdictional REDD+
• Conservation International Ventures
• Conservation Leadership Programme
• Criterion Africa Partners
• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)

D

• Darwin Initiative
• Database on best practices and lessons learned
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
• DEG
• Designing digital systems for scale: Payments for Environmental Services
• Designing Fiscal Instruments for Sustainable Forests
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
• Developing bankable business plans for sustainable forest-based enterprises
• Developing bankable business plans: A learning guide for forest producers and their organizations
• Dutch Fund for Climate and Development

E

• E-learning course - Sustainable financing of Forest and Landscape Restoration
• eco.business Fund
• EcoEnterprise's Fund
• Ecological Compensation in China: Trends and Opportunities for Incentive-Based Policies Towards a Greener China
• Eligibility Requirements for REDD+ Standards and Financing
• Emerging Market Green Bonds 2023
• Empowers Africa
• Enabel
• Enabling Factors to Scale Up Forest Landscape Restoration: The Roles of Governance and Economics Full Report with Case Studies
• Endangered Landscapes Programme
• EU REDD Facility
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
• European Investment Bank
• European Outdoor Conservation Association
• Existing and Potential Forest Financing Mechanisms for Smallholders and Community Forestry in West Africa
• Expanding Access to Finance For Community Forest Enterprises

F

• Facilitating the shift from tree planting to promoting community-based forest enterprises in the Philippines
• Fair and transparent benefit-sharing in Philippine Government forest restoration programs
• FAMAE
• FAO-EU FLEGT Programme
• Fertile Ground: State of Forest Carbon Finance 2017
• Finance for integrated landscape management. De-risking smallholder farmer investments in integrated landscape management
• Finance for integrated landscape management. The potential of credit unions in Indonesia to catalyze local rural development. The case of Semandang Jaya Credit Union
• Financing Flows and Needs to Implement the Non-legally Binding Instrument on all Types of Forests
• Financing Land Use Mitigation: A Practical Guide for Decision Makers
• Financing Nature for Water Security: A How-to Guide to Develop Watershed Investment Programs
• Financing Nature: Closing the Global Biodiversity Financing Gap
• Financing Opportunities
• Financing REDD+
• Financing sustainable forest management
• Financing sustainable forest management: a key component of sustainable COVID-19 recovery
• Financing Sustainable Land Use For People And Planet
• Financing Sustainable Small-Scale Forestry: Lessons from Developing National Forest Financing Strategies in Latin America
• Financing sustainable small-scale forestry: policy issues and lessons from developing national forest financing strategies in Latin America
• Financing the future of forests
• Financing the Future: a guide for forest landscape businesses
• FinDev Canada
• Finnfund
• Fiscal and Non-fiscal Incentives for Sustainable Forest Management
• Flemish Fund for Tropical Forests
• Fondation Franklinia
• Fondation Nature & Découvertes
• Fondation Segré
• Fonds français pour l'environnement mondial - FFEM
• Ford Foundation
• Forest 500 Annual Report 2023: A watershed year for action on deforestation
• Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
• Forest Conservation Fund
• Forest Declaration Assessment 2023
• Forest Finance Unlocks Opportunities for Rural Communities: Exploring the Triple Bottom Line Impacts of the Forest Resilience Bond Model
• Forest Financing Latin America and the Caribbean
• Forest sector revenues in Ghana, Liberia and the Republic of the Congo
• Forest-based Value Chains: A New Bioeconomy for the Amazon Forest
• Forestry and Climate Change Fund (FCCF)
• Forestry Investment Outlook 2023-2028
• Funding Trees for Health: An Analysis on Finance and Policy Actions to Enable Tree Planting for Public Health

G

• GCF Readiness Knowledge Bank
• GEF Small Grants Programme
• Generic guide and modular training package to assist countries in developing national forest financing strategies
• Global Affairs Canada
• Global Ecosystem-based Adaptation Fund
• Global Environment Facility
• Global Forest Goals Report 2021
• Global Forest Watch Small Grants Fund
• Global Green Growth Institute
• Global Greengrants Fund
• Global Mechanism of the UNCCD
• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• Green Bonds and Integrated Landscape Management- Options for Innovative Financing of Landscape Initiatives
• Green Climate Fund
• Guide to Conservation Finance
• Guide to investing in locally controlled forestry
• Guidelines for financing protected areas in East Asia

H

• Healing the Wounded Land: The Role of Public Economic Incentives in Scaling Up Restoration Efforts in Six Latin American Countries
• Hermès Enterprise Foundation
• High-level roadmap: Aligning financial flows with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
• Homepage
• How can Green Bonds catalyse investments in biodiversity and sustainable land-use projects?
• How forest bioeconomies can support nature-based solutions

I

• Idea Wild
• IDH
• iF International Forum Design GmbH
• Impacts of Payment for Forest Ecosystem Services on Local livelihoods in A Luoi District, Thua Thien Hue Province, Viet Nam
• Incentives to save the forest: Financial instruments to drive sustainable land use
• Increasing success and effectiveness of mangrove conservation investments : a guide for project developers, donors and investors
• Innovating finance to overcome current barriers towards sustainable landscapes
• Innovative Finance for Nature and People: Opportunities and Challenges for Biodiversity-Positive Carbon Credits and Nature Certificates
• Innovative Financial Instruments for Climate Adaptation
• INTEGER CONVALLIS
• Integrated Land-Use Initiatives: Theory and Practice
• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• Inter-American Foundation
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
• International Climate Initiative (IKI)
• International Community Foundation (ICF)
• International Development Association (IDA)
• International Finance Corporation
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• International Tree Foundation
• International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
• Introduction to Results Based Climate Finance (RBCF) (Self-Paced)
• Introduction to Results Based Climate Finance (RBCF) (Self-Paced)
• Investing in Nature: Financing Conservation and Nature-based Solutions
• Investment Fund for Developing Countries
• Issue Brief on Forest Finance
• IUCN Save Our Species

J

• J.M. Kaplan Fund
• Japan International Cooperation Agency

K

• KfW Development Bank
• Korea Green Growth Trust Fund
• Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)

L

• LAGreen
• Land Degradation Neutrality Transformative Projects and Programmes Operational Guidance for Country Support
• Land-use Finance Tool
• Landscape of Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems
• Landscape Resilience Fund
• Legacy Landscapes Fund
• LIFE Programme
• Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundation
• Local financing mechanisms for forest and landscape restoration: A review of local-level investment mechanisms
• Looking for the money tree
• L’OCCITANE Foundation

M

• Mahathir Science Award Foundation
• Making blended finance work for nature-based solutions
• Mapping forest finance: a landscape of available sources of finance for REDD+ and climate action in forests
• Mapping international funding flows to support forest and environmental sectors in Central Africa
• Millennium Challenge Corporation
• Mirova
• Mitigation Action Facility
• Mitsubishi Corporation
• Mobilising Finance for Forests
• Mobilising internal finance from within forest and farm producer organisations
• Mobilising Private Finance For Nature: A World Bank Group paper on private finance for biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Model framework for technology transfer
• Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
• Multimedia

N

• National Forest Funds, Towards a solid architecture and good financial governance
• Nature+ Accelerator Fund
• NDICI - Global Europe
• Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (FMO)
• Nefco – Nordic Environment Finance Corporation
• Nesting REDD+ Pathways to Bridge Project and Jurisdictional Programs
• New England Biolab Foundation
• News
• News
• Nordic Climate Facility
• Nordic Development Fund
• Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative

O

• OECD-FAO Business Handbook on Deforestation and Due Diligence in Agricultural Supply Chains
• Online course on Legal and Sustainable Supply Chains
• OPEC Fund for International Development
• Opportunities for Restoration as a Business: Money does grow on Trees!
• Overbrook Foundation

P

• Partnerships for Forests
• Patagonia
• Pathways to value: Achieving a breakthrough for international climate finance for tropical forest conservation
• Patterns of investing in sustainable landscapes: Investors and investment vehicles in developing countries
• Paying for Quality: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Report 2023
• Peacekeeping Summit
• Pension Fund Investment in Forestry
• PES: Bridging the Gap between Social Protection and Climate Change Mitigation
• Prince Bernhard Nature Fund
• Private Financing for Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Products in Developing Countries—Trends and Drivers
• PROGREEN Global Partnership for Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes
• Proin et turpis
• Proparco
• Public-private-civic partnerships for sustainable landscapes

Q

• Quarterly Highlight

R

• Rainforest Action Network
• Rainforest Trust
• Rapid Response Facility
• Re-Imagining Bioeconomy for Amazonia
• Regional Fund for Agriculture Technology (FONTAGRO)
• Repurposing Agricultural Subsidies to Restore Degraded Farmland and Grow Rural Prosperity
• Restoration Seed Capital Facility
• Restoring the Earth - The Next Decade
• Results-based payment: Who should be paid, and for what?
• Rooting Forest Landscape Restoration in Consumer Markets—A Review of Existing Marketing-Based Funding Initiatives
• Roots of Prosperity: the economics and finance of restoring land

S

• Scaling Gender and Climate Investment Opportunities
• Scaling Impact Investment in Forestry
• Scaling Partnerships for Investment in Sustainable Food Systems, Forests, and Nature: Insights from a series of case studies
• SDG Bonds: Leveraging Capital Markets for the SDGs
• Search All Databases
• SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund
• Securing Sustainable Financing for Conservation Areas
• Security Council Quarterly Meeting
• SEED
• Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
• South Pole
• South Pole
• State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2021
• State of Finance for Nature
• State of Finance for Nature 2022
• State of Finance for Nature Report 2023
• State of the World's Forests 2022
• Stiftung Artenschutz
• Sustainable finance and forest biodiversity criteria
• Sustainable Financing for Forest and Landscape Restoration - opportunities, challenges and the way forward
• Sustainable financing for forest and landscape restoration - the role of public policy makers
• Sustainable financing of protected areas: a global review of challenges and options
• Sustainable Forest Finance Toolkit
• Sustainable Forest Initiative
• Sustainable Land Bonds: How governments can finance climate commitments and strengthen rural economies
• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
• Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets

T

• The Asia Foundation 
• The Earthshot Prize
• The economic value of the planet's forest ecosystems: A meta-analysis
• The Ecosystem of Private Investment in Climate Action
• The Effectiveness of Financial Incentives for Addressing Mangrove Loss in Northern Vietnam
• the Fondation Segré Conservation Action Fund
• The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance
• The Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force
• The impact of Indonesia’s public climate finance system
• The International REDD+ Standards Tool
• The Little Book of Investing in Nature
• The Moringa Fund
• The Roddenberry Foundation
• The role of Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) in financing the forestry sector in Vietnam
• The State of the World’s Forests 2024
• The Terra Bella Colombia Fund
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s International Affairs
• The Walt Disney Company
• The Waterloo Foundation
• Tinker Foundation
• Toward a Financial Architecture to Protect Tropical Forests: The Case of Brazil
• Towards Effective National Forest Funds
• Traceability and Transparency in Supply Chains for Agricultural and Forest Commodities

U

• U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
• Uganda's Sawlog Production Grant Scheme: a success story from Africa
• UN-REDD Programme
• UNDP Green Commodities Facility
• UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Unlocking barriers to financing sustainable forest-related SMEs Lessons from Mozambique and Guatemala
• Unlocking Carbon Finance in Ghana
• USAID

V

• Valuing Ecosystem Services in Zimbabwe
• Van Tienhoven Foundation

W

• Wallace Global Fund
• Weeden Foundation
• West African Development Bank (BOAD)
• What are green bonds?
• What You Need to Know About Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
• White paper: options and financial mechanisms for the financing of biodiversity offsets
• Wildlife Conservation Network
• World Land Trust
• World Resources Institute
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF)