Research · August 2026 · OECD

Mobilising Public and Private Finance for Biodiversity

Selected by José Miguel Medeiros

The tools governments and public lenders use to raise money for nature, from tax measures and payments for ecosystem services to blended finance and biodiversity credits.

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Key figure

Over USD 14 billion: private investment in 2025 that sought both a biodiversity benefit and a financial return.

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Investors and landholders looking for public co-finance or blended structures for forest conservation and restoration.

Credit and license OECD (2026), Mobilising Public and Private Finance for Biodiversity: Good Practices in Unlocking Capital for Nature, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/e2b996a1-en. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. We host this copy unchanged, under the publisher's open license.

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