Learning at the leading edge
Historically, there has been muted interest from private investors in this area because environmental protection has not been known to provide high returns on investment when using traditional financial models.
Finding investment partners
Key connections with Indigenous and non-Indigenous investors and practitioners supported Indigenous-led projects with high conservation, biodiversity and financial returns on investment to lift off the ground.
Creating solutions
Participation in defining the latest trends and best practices, answering emerging questions and co-creating new solutions. With the intended outcome to synthesize Summit wisdom into global precedent-setting policy and action plans.
Meeting the moment
At a time of tense political and economic relations on Turtle Island (North America) and around the world, Indigenous sustainability financing offered an alternative, stable path forward grounded in globally-recognized Indigenous conservation leadership.
Indigenous-led systems change
Economic Futures was more than a conference. It was an Indigenous-led movement towards innovative financial mechanisms with economic and environmental benefit.
Indigenous Sustainability Financing
An under-tapped business case for investing in nature
The network of funders investing in nature-based solutions is not wide enough to address the extent of the environmental challenges that our world currently faces. As an emerging field, Indigenous sustainability financing presents a massive window of opportunity for early, leading-edge investment and to set new global standards and best practices.
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