A global financing gap of US$700 billion per year threatens progress on climate, biodiversity, and land restoration goals—such as limiting warming to 1.5°C, protecting 30% of land and sea, and achieving land degradation neutrality by 2030.
The training session will offer practical guidance on nature finance and showcase best practices for investors, financial institutions, and private companies, drawing from ICMA’s Sustainable Bonds for Nature: A Practitioner’s Guide. We will also go over the recently launched Harmonized Circular Economy Finance Guidelines which aims to help investors, financial institutions and private companies identify and quantify opportunities to channel financing to projects that support a circular economy. We will provide guidance to identify activities that are eligible for circular economy finance. The session will touch on some data-related challenges and highlight example of solutions to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) meet reporting requirements tied to sustainable investments.