Scaling Up Private Action for Nature: Opportunities for Development Co-operation and Finance

🌿 New OECD report: Scaling Up Private Action for Nature: Opportunities for Development Co-operation and Finance highlights the critical role of private sector engagement in addressing biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable development.

Nature underpins livelihoods, economic growth and resilience, yet biodiversity continues to be undervalued in economic and financial decision-making — particularly in developing countries where market failures, governance gaps and high transaction costs remain major barriers.

The report explores how development co-operation can help scale up private action for biodiversity and natural capital through three key entry points:
🔹 Strengthening enabling environments
🔹 Promoting private sector engagement
🔹 Mobilising private finance through development finance, blending and de-risking mechanisms

By supporting biodiversity-positive business models, sustainable value chains and nature-related risk management, development co-operation can play a catalytic role in shifting investment away from activities that harm nature and towards more sustainable pathways.

📘 Read the report: https://doi.org/10.1787/cae9a3dc-en