Partnerships for Nature: insights from Indigenous-led models in Canada
15 April 2025 / WORDS BY Pollination Foundation
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In this second edition of Nature Finance Focus, we highlight a number of models that are helping to unlock and scale nature investment. Some models are well established, alongside others in which we see significant promise and growth. By showcasing these tangible case studies, we aim to provide ideas and options which can be taken up by the global bank or investor, or by the major corporate.
The report also details the findings of our biennial survey of 500 institutional investors across the UK, USA, Australia, Singapore and Japan.
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As the curtain comes down on COP26 Glasgow can claim to have moved the dial on the Race to Zero while also highlighting the work ahead that is needed to bring emissions down in line with the science. One of the most notable features of this COP has been that the private sector is at the very heart of the discussion.
As Mark Carney noted during the Green Horizon Summit:
“Finance is an excellent feedback loop – if there is a gap between a country’s ambition, its policies and the markets being enabled, then they will be called out in real-time as companies will be reporting on their progress on an annual basis.”
At Pollination our focus is now firmly on the road from Glasgow. We want to ensure that finance supports governments and businesses to implement the pledges that have been made and that we continue to uncover new opportunities to accelerate the transition towards net zero.
We already know that the time for meaningful climate action is upon us and over the course of the last fortnight the Pollination team have been actively engaged in conversations in and around COP26. We’ve made some significant announcements of our own as well as taking part in a myriad of high-profile events at the Conference. Here are some of our COP26 highlights:
The conference brought together some of the world’s finest minds to tackle what is widely regarded to be the greatest challenge of our time. From David Attenborough’s sobering opening speech to Barack Obama’s call on the world to “step up”, the event has not been short on passionate rhetoric. But what about action? There are too many developments to cover in detail but here is our selection of the key initiatives to come out of Glasgow:
The slew of announcements and pledges is very positive but the two week summit in Glasgow was never going to secure all the commitments necessary to bring climate change under control. As Gavin Templeton points out:
“The transition to a lower-carbon economy will require a reimagining of the global economy. It needs radical thinking, catalytic collaboration and breakthrough ideas.”
We left the conference inspired by our conversations with business leaders, politicians and activists and more confident than ever that meaningful action is well and truly underway. As Rick Saines notes “COP26 has tabled the fundamental shift from pledges to action and all of the parties have been mobilised to achieve dramatic outcomes in the coming decade.”
15 April 2025 / WORDS BY Pollination Foundation
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