Prepare for the 2020 WEF Annual Meeting with GGKP - How Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration is Enhancing Natural Capital

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To help our partners prepare for the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Annual Meeting, which is focused on "Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World," we have identified some of our latest resources on how multi-stakeholder collaboration can help to enhance natural capital. This is presented in a series of blogs that features a variety of resources from our Green Growth, Green Finance, and Green Industry platforms.

How Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration is Enabling the Sustainable Management of Natural Capital
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There remains a tremendous opportunity for both private and public sector stakeholders to continue to take action to improve the management of natural capital across the globe. Recent research has found that natural capital makes up approximately 47 percent of wealth in low-income countries and 27 percent in lower-middle-income countries, and that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) could create more than 380 million jobs and help to unlock at least US$12 trillion in opportunities for business by 2030. To unlock these opportunities, public and private sector actors are increasingly finding that it is more effective and efficient to collaborate. In this blog, we feature some of our latest resources and case studies on how multi-stakeholder collaboration can help to compensate the providers of ecosystem services, address shared challenges for the sustained use of natural capital, and improve information for decision-making on natural capital investments.
How Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration is Incentivising Green Finance for Sustainable Natural Capital Management
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The majority of the financing required to achieve the SDGs is anticipated to come from the private sector, with an estimated US$12 trillion in opportunities for business by 2030. To ensure that these investments yield both a financial return and a return for nature, collaboration among public and private actors is needed. Already, thousands of financial institutions are starting to align their portfolios with the SDGs, including the more than 2,000 signatories to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) that represent more than US$80 trillion in assets in more than 50 countries. In addition, there has been significant growth in recent years in a variety of green financial products, including green bonds, green loans, green sukuk, green securitisation, equity finance, impact investing, and climate risk insurance. In this blog, we feature some of our latest resources and case studies that illustrate how the insurance, investment, and banking industries can engage in multi-stakeholder collaboration to sustainably manage natural capital.
The projected quadrupling of global GDP by 2060 presents both tremendous risks and opportunities for the sustainable management of natural capital. Embracing a circular economy model presents great potential for economic growth, with an estimated US$4.5 trillion business opportunity. However, the degradation of natural capital threatens the ecosystem services on which more than 40 percent of total world employment, or 1.2 billion jobs, depend directly, along with billions more jobs with indirect linkages to natural capital. In recent research on green industry, we have seen numerous examples of public and private actors tapping into these market opportunities. In this blog, we feature some of our latest resources and case studies that illustrate the role green industry can play in strengthening the sustainable management of natural capital by creating more sustainable alternatives to products, adopting sustainable certifications or standards, and developing and scaling up circular economy business models.
 
That wraps up our three-part blog series. The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership's dedicated platforms on policy, industry, and finance will continue to facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration to mainstream natural capital in green growth activities. Join us to take action.
 
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