KPI Directory

The Good Food Finance Network is a multi-stakeholder collaborative innovation platform, working to develop the critical innovations that will allow sustainable food system finance to become the mainstream standard. The Network is convened by EAT, FAIRR, Food Systems for the Future, UNEP, and WBCSD, in close collaboration with the World Bank, S2G Ventures, the UNEP-FI, the GEF, PRI, Just Rural Transition, and other supporting partners.

The Restoration Seed Capital Facility supports early-stage development of forest restoration projects in developing countries, contributing to climate adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity, and sustainable livelihoods. UNEP Climate Finance Unit run this facility, and Arbaro Advisors and Ecotierra are the first two partners to qualify for the Facility’s support. The co-funding provided by the Facility will boost the efforts of these fund managers in developing a pipeline of investments in nature-based solutions that contribute to forest restoration.

&Green invests in commercial projects in agricultural production value chains in order to protect and restore tropical forests and peatlands and make agriculture more sustainable and inclusive – involving local communities, producers, financiers, supply chain companies, local and national government and civil society. The Fund’s goal is to prove that financing inclusive, sustainable and deforestation-free commodity production can be commercially viable and replicable. In 2019 the Global Environment Facility (GEF), acting through the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) invested USD 2 million as a redeemable grant.

The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility is a Government of Indonesia supported initiative facilitated by UN Environment, World Agroforestry Centre, ADM Capital and BNP Paribas. The TLFF supports deforestation free supply chains through strict lending criteria. It aims to mobilize international capital at scale to incentivize sustainable agriculture and renewable energy in Indonesia. The Facility hopes to decrease the environmental damage that often accompanies business-as-usual investing and at the same time improve rural livelihoods.

AGRI3 Fund aims to mobilise additional public and private capital at scale, to contribute to sustainable agricultural value chains and avert deforestation. The Fund was born out of a partnership between UN Environment and Rabobank, who came together in 2017 to announce an ambitious partnership with the aim to unlock at least USD 1 billion in finance towards deforestation-free, sustainable agriculture and land use. The partnership has since expanded to include the Dutch development bank (FMO) and IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative.

The State of Finance of Nature report by UNEP, the World Economic Forum, the Economics of Land Degradation and Vivid Economics, tracks global trends in public and private investment in nature-based solutions, aiming to improve data quality and identify opportunities for governments, businesses and financiers.