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Innovative investment partnerships support sustainable food systems, forests, and nature

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, as a founding partner of the Good Food Finance Network and Secretariat for the Forest Investor Club, has developed a set of case studies showcasing innovative investment strategies that are directing private capital toward sustainable food systems, forests, and nature. The five case studies– ranging from sustainable cocoa farming in Central America to zero-deforestation palm oil in Southeast Asia – show how the right investment strategies can transform the financing of food systems for a healthy, sustainable future.

Five-year sprint to transform food-related finance data

In May, the Good Food Finance Network launched the Integrated Data Systems Initiative, as a 5-year innovation sprint linked to AIM for Climate Summit. The goal is to transform the way data systems inform financial decision-making—across the public, private, and multilateral sectors. Read more.

Good Food Finance Week Outcomes: Driving change in food systems finance

This blog outlines solutions identified during the Good Food Finance Week to achieve a food systems transformation, highlighting best approaches, current financial innovation, the opportunity for both private and public financiers, and the need for standardizing science-based thinking and reporting through all aspects of the value chain.

New UNEP Report Outlines Steps to Mobilize Good Food Finance, Highlighting Exemplary Targets

UNEP’s Driving Finance for Sustainable Food Systems report outlines a roadmap for financiers to drive significant capital flows towards sustainable food systems, identifies actions to develop an enabling policy environment to promote sustainable finance, and highlights good practices demonstrated and promoted by the Good Food Finance Network’s High Ambition Group.

CBD COP15 Kunming-Montreal Global biodiversity framework: Draft decision submitted by the President

Conference of the parties to the convention on biological diversity, fifteenth meeting – part II. This document outlines a set of actions and targets to conserve and sustainably use the world’s biodiversity, including those related to food and agriculture.

GFFN addressing the finance gap during COP27: Now analyzed in UNEP’s newest State of Finance for Nature Report

The Good Food Finance Network is working to mobilize public and private financial actors to address the financing gap covered in UN Environment Programme’s 2022 State of Finance for Nature Report.

UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2022

According to the 2022 Emissions Gap Report, the international community is falling far short of meeting Paris goals, with no credible pathway to 1.5 degrees C in place.Transforming food systems is imperative for avoiding dangerous levels of climate change and other environmental problems. The report identifies a range of transformation domains with several mitigation measures where food systems can contribute to bridge the emissions gap.