Sustainable Finance Coalition

The conservation sector desperately needs more money flowing into it. Because it takes a lot of it to restore and protect nature. 

Sustainable Finance Coalition (SFC) has developed a menu of finance solutions that can be tailored to help restore and manage crucial African landscapes. Their superpower is ferreting out clever ways to unlock capital—using things like tax incentives and bonds—for landscapes with great conservation plans but not enough money. They have a systematic way to pick the right finance solution from the menu, customize it, and scale it across a landscape.

So far, they’ve unlocked millions of dollars for nature in South Africa through tax incentives. And they have shown their menu of finance solutions can be tailored across very diverse landscapes and seascapes. This is complex, technical work though, and it requires SFC’s involvement for years before NGOs can tailor and launch finance solutions on their own. But if they crack this, their approach could unleash a lot of finance solutions that really power landscape conservation.