Global Standard for Conservation: Unlocking Financial Sustainability

11/10/2025

14:00 - 15:30

IUCN Green List

Disruptive Innovation and Leadership for Conservation Scaling Up Resilient Conservation Action

Why attend

Discover how finance tools, from bonds to biodiversity credits, are unlocking private capital for conservation. Learn how the IUCN Green List provides credibility and equity, ensuring investments deliver real benefits for people and nature.

Session Description

Reaching the global biodiversity target will require bold new financing solutions. Protected and Conserved Areas urgently need resources to strengthen governance, management, and monitoring, yet traditional funding alone cannot meet this challenge. This session brings together innovators demonstrating how outcomes-based finance can bridge the gap.

Speakers will showcase how linking finance to measurable conservation results unlocks new capital. The Sustainable Finance Coalition will share lessons on biodiversity credits and blended finance, while experiences from Finance Montréal and global funds highlight how markets and multilateral actors can scale solutions. The IUCN Green List Standard will be presented as a trusted assurance framework, ensuring credibility, transparency, and equity, with a concrete example from the proposed Coral Reef Bond in Indonesia. Together, these approaches illustrate how finance can become a driving force in achieving the Global Biodiversity Framework.

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World Commission on Protected Areas