Increased investment in landscape restoration is essential for meeting ambitious global targets that already exist, including the Bonn Challenge to bring 150 million ha into restoration by 2020. Climate and development finance will not be sufficient to meet this level of ambition. Private finance has a very important role to play. But what is necessary to unlock private finance for landscape restoration at scale? There are a range of investments, including a spectrum between “enabling investments” that create public goods and “asset investments” that create private assets. Both are equally important, and often enabling investments are required before asset investments can be realized. Figure 3 provides an overview of the various types of finance that are available along this spectrum. For the session at the Global Landscapes Forum in London on June 10, the expert session on the financing of landscape restoration will largely focus on the case study of Initiative 20x20 in Latin America to frame the discussion.

Type of Case
Printed publication (book, sourcebook, journal article…)

Publisher
Global Landscape Forum

Region
Americas

Biome
Tropical

Forest Type
Degraded forest

Primary Designated Function
All