Issue 3 | March 2021
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About UNEP’s Land Use Finance Programme

To pioneer the transformation towards sustainable land use at scale, the UN Environment Programme
Land Use Finance Programme, managed by the Climate Finance Unit aims to proactively unlock public and especially private capital for deforestation-free commodity production, restoration of degraded land and improvement of smallholder farmer livelihoods.  


Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco
The Nature Conservancy, the Tropical Forest Alliance and UNEP are joining forces to spur investment in deforestation and conversion-free production of beef and soy in South America.
UNEP Restoration Factory: a new incubator for restoration entrepreneurs
UNEP is welcoming its first cohort of restoration ecopreneurs to participate in an innovative business incubator program aimed at streng-thening the economic potential of their ideas to unlock more finance, more quickly.
Accelerating capital market access for restoration using securitization: promo-ting the rise of nature-backed securities
Coordinating the efforts with banks and other financial institutions, UNEP is supporting the securitization of sustainable land use, thereby making it more accessible for investors, which in turn unlocks greater funding.
Joint SDG Fund launches historic investment portfolio
The United Nations Joint SDG Fund drives public and private capital towards green and social investments in Indonesia along with coral reef conservation and blue economy initiatives in Fiji.

How to enable finance in game-changing food systems solutions?
22 April 2021 - UNEP, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Rabobank, CGIAR are hosting a Food Systems Summit Dialogue on how science together with blended finance can help #RestoreOurEarth.

Caught on camera trap: Three Sumatran tigers in Bukit Tigapuluh National Park
Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers, assumed to be the mother and two cubs, were caught on camera trap in Bukit Tigapuluh National Park and RLU subsidiary, PT Lestari Asri Jaya.