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Canada is well-positioned to be a global leader in nature investment. We have a tremendous opportunity to attract new investors to nature-based activities to help achieve biodiversity and climate goals, while advancing Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, creating community benefits, and strengthening the economy.
Courtney Kehoe
Director of Partner Engagement
The Nature Investment Hub is driving a fivefold increase in nature investments by championing a conservation finance agenda made for Canada.
Our health, communities, cultures, and economies depend on resilient ecosystems that are threatened by climate change and biodiversity loss. It will take a massive increase in investment–an estimated $20 billion annually–in conservation, restoration, stewardship and sustainable use of nature to change direction. That funding gap is too big for governments and philanthropists to close alone. Flowing in more capital from a wider range of investors is critical, but attracting private finance to nature through traditional investment approaches is challenging.
The good news is financial organizations–from institutional investors to insurance companies–show growing interest in directing capital towards nature. The way to do this is through instruments that offer financial returns alongside environmental, social and cultural benefits.
These conservation finance instruments can create long-term funding streams for Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship, while centering rights and Reconciliation. What’s more, Canada is home to twenty percent of the world’s freshwater, some of the largest remaining tracts of connected intact forest, and globally significant soil carbon stores – presenting a responsibility and opportunity to lead globally.
The Hub curates unprecedented collaboration in the nature investment space, among Indigenous, conservation, philanthropic, private sector, and government leaders.
The Hub champions pilots that can be scaled up, builds business cases, and removes barriers between investors and high-impact nature investment opportunities. It does this leveraging the Smart Prosperity Institute’s cutting-edge research and policy know-how.
At its heart, the Nature Investment Hub rethinks how our systems can properly account for nature’s benefits–today and for future generations.
To learn more, contact Courtney Kehoe, Director, Partnership Engagement: [email protected]
Canada is well-positioned to be a global leader in nature investment. We have a tremendous opportunity to attract new investors to nature-based activities to help achieve biodiversity and climate goals, while advancing Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, creating community benefits, and strengthening the economy.
Courtney Kehoe
Director of Partner Engagement