Public Private Partnerships for Investing in Nature as Infrastructure
Natural ecosystems provide critical services to enable the economy and wider society, and especially key in advancing both climate mitigation and adaptation solutions. Investing in nature to secure such services requires innovative deployment of well-understood PPP approaches to infrastructure investment. AIIB, with the Paulson Institute, Morphosis and other MDBs are advancing proposals on scaling appropriate PPP arrangements to COP 30 in Belem. This event explores how such financial and associated policy innovations can unlock nature-related opportunities for private investors, and scale private capital flows into nature as infrastructure.
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100% of global GDP is ultimately 100% dependent on nature. Essential therefore is to nvest in and preserve nature as teh enabling infrastructure of economies and more widely societies. Public and philanthropic funds are inadequate for this purpose, so needed is to crowd in private, profit seeking capital. Public privare partnerships (PPPs) refer to arrangements that enable private investors to finance ‘public goods’, such as roads and hospitals. PPP experience can be adapted and deployed to catalyze private investment in nature, potentially combining insurance, off take agreements and innovative financing such as biodiversity credits.