The State of Finance of Nature 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. This year’s report calls for investments in nature-based solutions to triple by 2030 and to increase four-fold by 2050 from the current level. While an increase in public funding would help plug some of the gap, there needs to be a significant increase in private sector investment in Nature-based solutions.

Investments in Nature-based solutions need to triple by 2030
By taking profits of nature-based solutions, we can vastly improve human well-being and prosperity.
Time to scale up action and investments.
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Authors: UN Environment Programme, World Economic Forum, Economics of Land Degradation Initiative, Vivid Economics
If the world is to meet the climate change, biodiversity, and land degradation targets, it needs to close a USD 4.1 trillion financing gap in nature by 2050. The current investments in Nature-based solutions amount to USD 133 billion – most of which comes from public sources.