REPORT: Scaling Climate Finance: Biodiversity ...

Scaling Climate Finance: Biodiversity Instruments

March 2021

Hall D, Lindsay S. 2021. Scaling Climate Finance: Biodiversity Instruments. A report for the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge (SO7). 66 p.

Abstract

This Concept Paper identifies unrealised opportunities for increasing investment into projects and activities that preserve, support and expand Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique biological heritage. Redirecting finance and funding through climate finance instruments – such as those described in the pages that follow – can accelerate the shift toward a more resilient, low-emissions future.

The objectives of the Concept Paper are two-fold: (1) to galvanise the local conversation about the opportunities for innovative financial instruments to deliver biodiversity outcomes; and (2) to use these proposals as catalysts to create 'coalitions of the willing' who can bring these instruments to market.