The report emphasizes the need to match existing conservation finance project strategies with appropriate financial vehicles and available investable funds with the long-term intent of creating a conservation finance asset class. Its objective is to identify financial report that have the potential to establish conservation finance in mainstream investment markets.
This report covers four chapters that expands and reflects on recent developments on the conservation finance field:
- re-emphasize the importance of financial vehicles as a bridge between project funding needs and investor interests;
- argue that developing recent changes to the relevant enabling conditions may accelerate a further market uptake;
- build a deeper understanding of the challenges to this growth and possible related solutions, based on findings from an NGO workshop and a series of investor interviews; and
- identify three paradigm shifts along the project maturity lifecycle that could unleash the next period of growth in the conservation finance field.