Issue 7 | July 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.  


Why financing the transformation of our food systems to nature positive production is critical before 2030
Today's food systems are directly contributing to the most daunting crises of our time. However, this linkage also gives them the power to introduce drastic changes to successfully battle these crises. UNEP is supporting the food and finance agenda by co-hosting the Finance Network for Food Systems together with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

'Blended finance' has emerged as a tool to de-risk investments into more sustainable agricultural business models. Responsible Investor covers under which circumstances blended finance can play a key role in enabling the land use transition needed to meet the Paris climate commitments.

Familiarize yourself with visualizations of how finance actors can scale up investments into nature-based solutions to meet international climate change, biodiversity and land degradation targets.
Mobilizing restoration finance at the local level
Jonathan Gheyssens (UNEP), Lucy Garrett (FAO) and Mathilde Iweins (FAO) elaborate on how blended finance approaches and robust business plans will help ensure the financial well-being of forest and landscape restoration projects.

Climate Finance Unit at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in September
In September 2021, the Climate Finance Unit will be hosting an event titled "Increasing investments in nature-based solutions through a system-wide approach to restoration finance" at the NbS and Ecosystem Restoration Pavilion at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille, France.