Be part of the Inclusive Finance and Business Engagement Pavilion at GLF Bonn 2018! The pavilion will host highly interactive workshops, discussions, and networking events. Meet people from different backgrounds and sectors and engage them in critical conversation on this important topic.
Throughout 1-2 December, highly interactive mini-workshops are waiting for you at the Pavilion. Fear not long monologues and slide decks, as these sessions are all about building relationships and sharing knowledge together. You will hear from and dialogue with indigenous community members, farmers, entrepreneurs, investors, certifiers, researchers and more.
Sessions at the pavilion will focus on several key themes within the topic: barriers to scaling investment in smallholders and SMEs; opportunities and challenges for certification and standards in landscapes; and tools and modalities for cultivating sustainable and regenerative enterprises within landscapes.
The Inclusive Finance and Business Engagement Pavilion is an initiative of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative, with FSC International, Tropenbos International, CGIAR’s Forest, Trees and Agroforestry research program, SNV, Solidaridad, Verra, the Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) of the Netherlands, IUCN Netherlands, and EcoAgriculture Partners, and thanks to support from GIZ.
Event DetailsKick-starting discussions at the inclusive finance pavilion using PBL’s global scenarios and models work on the biophysical context and urgency of restoration. PBL sets the scene for discussions on the where, what and how of financing restoration, with a facilitated small group discussion about various “red thread” topics in the pavilion. This includes: building global restoration scenarios and models – “ground-truthing” and exploring trends in restoration and sustainable land management from different perspectives; financing restoration – how do we link global priorities and finance streams with local finance opportunities; and (if time) the role of standards, certification and tools in moving from pledges to practice.
A recent IIED study on climate finance shows a big gap between total climate funds available and the proportion of that being implemented at local scale. In addition, global spending on conventional agriculture and forestry is manifold the spending on responsible land use practices. The CGIAR program on Forest Trees and Agroforestry studies success factors for inclusive and responsible businesses, which are at the core of both climate finance and responsible investments. It also looks at financial mechanisms that can adequately address the needs of such businesses. TBI and IUCN are implementing programs that should bring investors and small and medium (forest) enterprises in tropical landscapes closer together. Building on these experiences, FTA, TBI and IUCN brought together a panel that represents both investors and end-users, who will showcase their experiences with finance for inclusive and responsible land use practices. Through an interactive discussion with the audience the session will come to suggestions for priority actions that should lead to a greater contribution of finance to inclusive and responsible practices.
Duncan MacQueen, Principle researcher, IIED
Maxime Eiselin, Expert green finance, IUCN
The Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation includes some of the world’s largest and most influential financial institutions and develops “financial blueprints” for investments that generate conservation outcomes. Thanks to leadership from IUCN, EcoAgriculture Partners, WWF and others, the Terms of Reference for its newest working group, focused on Landscape Finance, are now being developed. By reviewing the draft TOR, this session will reveal what is new and different about this class of financial mechanisms, and how you can get involved in shaping them.
In this lightly-led discussion, we will bare our ignorance bravely and address terms and jargon in landscape finance. You are welcome to stand up and raise up any term which you would like clarified and we aim to bridge the language gap between different areas of expertise. Join us and learn a new language!
Join this session to exchange experiences and perspectives with public and private practitioners on inclusive palm oil production, particularly focusing on what practices and policies have steered palm oil businesses to become more inclusive and how come these were so effective.
Exploring Inclusive Palm Oil Production session description with links (PDF)
Verra is developing The Landscape Standard (LS) together with Rainforest Alliance and CCBA. Come learn how the LS team envisions the standard helping to drive positive and coordinated change at scale. And join together in dialogue to dive deeper and help consider new ways of thinking about the standard and its main assumptions. Plus get a preview of a few of the pilots where the LS is already being put to the test on the ground. See how it can be used in diverse settings around the globe yet remain united by a common set of outcomes that allow for flexibility of approach and strategy appropriate for a specific landscape.
FSC has launched a new certification tool to improve the access of certified forest companies and communities to ecosystem services markets. FSC staff from our global headquarters and our Latin American Regional Office together with partner ETIFOR will present their early experiences with this new tool and discuss business opportunities for financing conservation and responsible forest management.
Full Session Description with links (PDF)
FSC – Ecosystem Services page
Is ‘landscape finance’ simply investments in sustainable agriculture or conservation, or is there more to it? If there is more, what’s the value addition proposition? Who is responsible for creating that additional value, and how might we (or they) work (together) better to make it happen in more places? What role for private finance, for NGOs, for governments, for SMEs/smallholders, and for landscape initiatives?
In this session PBL and EcoAgriculture will first present the lessons learned from the 3 case studies on modelling landscape scenarios. In participation with existing landscape partnerships they explored the use of spatial modelling and scenario tools to identify shared development pathways that contribute to achieving progress on multiple SDGs. Next, we want to explore ideas how this inspire landscape planning and the development of landscape wide investment portfolios that are inclusive and coherent with overall landscape ambitions.
Spatial modelling of participatory landscape scenarios – PBL.nl
During this structured networking session, investors will drop their business cards in one hat and those with projects to pitch, ideas for feedback, or questions for financiers will drop their cards in another hat: matches will be drawn at random for 10 minutes of networking. Then new matches will be drawn for a second round of networking. Door prizes will be given to 4 random participants, two from each group!
Solidaridad Central America has launched the Mesoamerican Landscape Accelerator, a design process which helps speed and scale identification and financing of necessary investments for sustainable agriculture and landscape restoration. This session will present Solidaridad’s experience piloting the accelerator in Honduras. First, we will highlight the context of the landscape programme in Honduras, secondly we shed light on the design process and how it results in an investment portfolio and lastly, we will showcase 1-3 investment opportunities to take a deep dive together with the audience.
Nancy Rapando, Landscape & Climate Specialist, Solidaridad East Africa – Kenya
Carlos J. Perez, Landscape & Climate Specialist, Solidaridad Mesoamerica – Nicaragua
Flavio Linares, Technical Head of Programs, Solidaridad Mesoamerica – Guatemala
Michael Metz, Coordinator International Projects on Forest Restoration, Oro Verde – Germany
Publicly launched at last year’s Global Landscapes Forum in Bonn, the Landscape Investment and Finance Toolkit now has a year of experience in the field with practitioners to report on. Come hear some surprising stories of how LIFT is helping some of the world’s largest conservation organizations develop bankable projects that protect biodiversity, strengthen livelihoods, and contribute to the other SDGs, and work with us to answer some key questions about the efficacy of such a tool in the landscape contexts you know best.
Sara Scherr, EcoAgriculture Partners
Jan Willem den Besten, IUCN NL
Flavio Linares, Solidaridad International
Joanna Durbin, Conservation International
Hilly Ann Roa-Quiaoit (video address), Samdhana Institute, Philippines
This session will explore the multiple perspectives of development practitioners and financiers, including impact investors, by drawing on specific cases, experience and innovative approaches. The panel will discuss concerted efforts to make finance more accessible and affordable to smallholders and SMEs in order to overcome the barriers to achieve sustainable impact at scale.
Join many of the partner organizations of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative in this session, hosted by LPFN secretariat EcoAgriculture Partners, to discuss how collaboration within the LPFN is helping advance common goals and share knowledge around landscape finance, and how your organization could be a part of that in 2019 and beyond! In particular, we will work on collaborative planning for our signature regional landscape dialogues, learning events that bring landscape-based leaders from across geographic regions together for focused capacity-building and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and agenda setting.
