State of Finance for Nature 2022 - Time to Act: Doubling Investment by 2025 and Eliminating Nature-negative Finance Flows

The State of Finance for Nature (SFN) 2022 report quantifies public and private finance flows to nature-based solutions (NbS) to tackle global challenges related to biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change. Current investments are compared to investment needed to meet targets of the Rio Conventions under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). This second edition i) expands analysis of capital flows to include marine nature-based solutions; ii) estimates the investment in NbS needed to limit climate change to below 1.5°C (in addition to the 2°C target), given the enormous impact this has on nature and people; iii) quantifies public nature-negative capital flows to put into context capital flows to NbS; and iv) estimates the benefits of investing in NbS to demonstrate to politicians, business and finance leaders that nature is a large part of the solution to global crises.