The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently released the fourth edition of its flagship report, “The State of Finance for Nature 2026” which tracks global capital flows related to nature. The report warns that nature-negative finance (US$7.3 trillion) vastly outweighs nature-positive investment (US$220 billion). It said that for every $1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends $30 on destroying it.
A Massive Finance Gap
To meet global biodiversity, climate and land degradation targets, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) investment must rise 2.5 times
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