Financing a Sustainable Global Bioeconomy

Financing a Sustainable Global Bioeconomy provides the results of a pioneering landscape analysis of the current and prospective interplay between finance and the bioeconomy.

The substantive context is the keystone role that the bioeconomy needs to play in shaping an equitable, nature positive, low carbon global economy.

Financing a Sustainable Global Bioeconomy’s institutional context is the leadership taken by Brazil in establishing the G20 Initiative on Bioeconomy in its G20 Presidency and hopefully South Africa’s G20 Presidency in 2025, the prioritisation of finance and the bioeconomy by the Colombian Presidency of the forthcoming Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16), and the place of the bioeconomy in building international collaborative action on climate, grounded in the Conference of the Parties on climate change under the Brazilian Presidency in 2025 (COP30).

Financing a Sustainable Global Bioeconomy is the initial product of a collaboration between NatureFinance and the World Bioeconomy Forum. It draws on the extensive work of both organisations and draws on the wealth of knowledge and practical experience of many of its partners.

Financing a Sustainable Bioeconomy builds on two key pieces of work contributed to the Brazilian G20 Presidency, The Global Bioeconomy – Preliminary Stocktake of G20 Strategies and Practices prepared by NatureFinance and the Center for Sustainability Studies of Fundação Getulio Vargas on behalf of a coalition of twenty Brazilian-based civil and business organizations and coalitions, and the G20 High-Level Principles of the Bioeconomy – a Roadmap for Action, as well as the final report of the High-level Taskforce on Nature Markets, Making Nature Markets Work, released at the Amazon Summit in Belem, Brazil, in August 2023.