Incentives and barriers to private finance for forest and landscape restoration.

ABSTRACT: Increased private finance can accelerate forest and landscape restoration globally. Here we conduct semi-structured interviews with asset managers, corporations and restoration finance experts to examine incentives and barriers to private restoration finance. Next, we assess what type of restoration projects and regions appeal to different private funders and how current financial barriers can be overcome. We show that market incentives for corporations include meeting net-emission-reduction commitments, impact and sustainable branding opportunities, and promotion of sustainability in supply chains. Conversely, asset managers face stronger barriers to investing in restoration as it is deemed a high-risk, unknown investment with low profitability. We find that investment finance biases towa

SUBMITTER: Lofqvist S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10172125 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature