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Recent research has found that natural capital makes up approximately 47 percent of wealth in low-income countries, and that achieving the SDGs could 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 on how multi-stakeholder collaboration can help to enable the sustainable management of natural capital.

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 is needed across the insurance, investment, and banking sectors. 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 this blog, we feature some of our latest resources that illustrate how the insurance, investment, and banking industries are engaging in multi-stakeholder collaboration to sustainably manage natural capital.