Finance for Resilient Landscapes
Accelerating and scaling nature action in soy, beef and palm production landscapes in Brazil & Indonesia
Finance for Resilient Landscapes is a global effort to accelerate financial flows to support resilient nature-positive commodity production landscapes. The programme is a collaboration led by Proforest, Conservation International (CI) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), with philanthropic support from HSBC.
The problem and the solution – landscape interventions that reduce risk and improve asset resilience
What we're doing
We are starting in six critical landscapes where nature is at a frontier with agricultural production: two in Indonesia focused on palm oil, and four in Brazil focused on soy and cattle.
By building on the strong foundations created through these ongoing Indonesian and Brazilian landscape and jurisdictional initiatives – programmes in which many supply chain companies have funded – and linking them to the global finance sector, we can drive progress that is both scalable and sustained over time. Within each landscape, we will identify and scale existing financial pathways and mechanisms that help companies and local actors access the capital they need to deliver on their net-zero and nature commitments whilst supporting resilient commodity production systems.
How we're working
This programme convenes three critical stakeholder groups, namely:
- Landscape partners implementing place-based nature protection and restoration at scale, including producers and local communities
- Supply chain companies sourcing from these landscapes facing the need to ensure resilient supply chains for the future whilst meeting their climate and nature commitments
- Financiers who are looking to deploy capital for nature-positive outcomes and whose supply chain investments are vulnerable to climate shocks.
Finance for Resilient Landscapes will bridge those worlds together – orchestrating across landscape, national and global scales whilst grounding discussions in specific financial interventions within landscapes that collectively deliver both production and nature conservation outcomes.
Our landscapes
What this means for companies
This is an opportunity to amplify existing efforts and unlock finance beyond Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) budgets by demonstrating the risk reduction benefits and returns of nature-positive action. It supports regulatory compliance, meeting voluntary targets, and addresses risks (credit, materiality, and reputational).
What this means for banks
This is a chance to align with global sustainability commitments, manage risks that are exacerbated via current agricultural practices, and tap into new market opportunities, thus protecting corporate value as well as nature.
