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Unlocking Finance for Regenerative Agriculture 💰🌱 Last week, we brought together over 55 partners to explore financial solutions for scaling Regenerative Agriculture. Insightful discussions unearthed the challenges and opportunities in mobilizing capital for nature-positive solutions, linking to the Financing for Regenerative Agriculture report by The Rockefeller Foundation Pollination and Transformational Investing in Food Systems, and to the Scaling Nature Finance Now: The Opportunity for Investors in Brazil and Beyond report, by High-Level Climate Champions, Capital for Climate,UN Environment Programme, The Nature Conservancy and IFACC Initiative. Key workshop takeaways: 📌 Shift from isolated opportunities to larger and fewer comprehensive financial structures, including "fund of funds". 📌 Aggregation of opportunities is relevant to match ticket size. Landscape and country platforms seem to be suitable and feasible models.  📌 Combining philanthropy's flexibility with institutional investment discipline can enhance success. Insurance and other risk-mitigation tools play a crucial role, including facilitating data collection and information aggregation to improve business models. 📌 Nature and climate needs to be valued and stronger carbon, resilience and biodiversity credit markets can both generate additional income and reduce agriculture overall impact. 📌 The next step is to take these insights and connect investors with opportunities within regenerative agriculture. 📌 Participants also agree to share targets, narratives and deliverables ahead of COP30 📌 For investment opportunities in regenerative agriculture and other nature-based solutions, please visit www.capitalforclimate.com Let’s scale regenerative agriculture together! 📩 As we continue engaging with regenerative agriculture innovators and funders, we’re eager to share insights, foster connections, and accelerate impact. If you have nature-positive solutions or financing mechanisms that can drive this movement forward, 👇 comment below or email nicolas.benkel@ambitionloop.earth Check out the reports: 📑 Financing for Regenerative Agriculture: https://lnkd.in/eCZni8FY  📑 Scaling Nature Finance Now: The Opportunity for Investors in Brazil and Beyond: https://lnkd.in/dtVSANKi Nigel Topping, CMG Gonzalo Muñoz Abogabir CMG Jacinda Njike Rebecca Brooks Melissa Pinfield Peter J. Hall Nicolás B. Isadora Pla Carolina A. Escobar Tony Lent Deborah Stern Sagarika Chatterjee Puninda Thind Sara Farley Federico Bellone Craig Pettengell Walter Link Steven Lang Dan Zook Rex Raimond Oliver Phillips Jack Bugas Gretel Gambarelli #RegenerativeAgriculture #ClimateFinance #NatureFinace #NatureBasedSolutions #investment #sustainability #finance

Last month, Erick Richard Castro Gonzalez, Principal Executive at CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe-, joined the Mangrove Breakthrough at our recent Mexico workshop. 🌱🌎 In a powerful discussion with Mangrove Breakthrough Ambassador and former Colombia Minister of the Environment Carlos Eduardo Correa Escaf, Erick highlighted how mangroves can drive solutions for all three pillars of climate action: mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage. Drawing from his own experience, he shared how these vital ecosystems protect communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis. 💪 The Mangrove Breakthrough Hub is hosted by Ambition Loop.

🌍 Last week, the Mangrove Breakthrough partnered with Global Mangrove Alliance and the Mexican Alliance for Ecosystem Restoration to host a workshop in Mexico City that included an endorsement of the Breakthrough by Mexico's Secretary of the Environment Alicia Bárcena. During the workshop, Mangrove Breakthrough Ambassador and Colombia’s former Minister of the Environment Carlos Eduardo Correa Escaf spoke with Tannia Cristina Frausto Illescas, the Climate Change Director at WILDCOAST. The two spoke about the transformative collaboration taking place between the public, private and financial sectors at the conference. 🌱 This kind of dialogue is crucial to building a pipeline of mangrove-positive projects that will help us achieve the Mangrove Breakthrough’s bold mission: raising $4 billion to restore and protect 15 million hectares of mangroves by 2030. The Mangrove Breakthrough Hub is hosted by Ambition Loop.

🌊 Exciting news! 🌍 The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International have launched Blue Carbon Plus (BC+), a groundbreaking initiative to protect coastal blue carbon ecosystems while boosting local economies! 🚀 🔑 A key insight from the Mangrove Breakthrough Financial Roadmap is that business models like  blue carbon can generate real financial returns while building resilient coastal communities and creating a host of environmental benefits. 🌱. Initiatives like BC+ are critical to reaching the Mangrove Breakthrough’s bold goal of mobilising $4 billion to protect and restore 15 million hectares of mangroves by 2030! 🌱💚 BC+ is now accepting applications for its inaugural BC+ Challenge, a competition for early-stage projects and businesses. 👉 Apply today: https://lnkd.in/eCbX43fy

🌍 Plastic Treaty Pulse: The Road to Global Action Against Plastic Pollution 🌍  Join us for an insightful webinar co-hosted by Columbia Climate School’s Plastic Network and Ambition Loop, as we analyze the outcomes of INC-5 negotiations and the path towards INC-5.2. Date: Friday, February 7, 2025 Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM (EST)   Location: Online Webinar  Gain specialist insight from negotiators, legal experts, and environmental leaders as we discuss key challenges, lessons learned, and actionable strategies for global plastic governance. This session is a must for anyone passionate about sustainability, policy, and environmental health.  🔗 Register now and be part of the conversation driving systemic change! https://lnkd.in/e-xBT8KP #PlasticTreaty #Sustainability #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalGovernance #AmbitionLoop #ColumbiaClimateSchool Avelile Cishe Nigel Topping, CMG Gonzalo Muñoz Abogabir CMG Magdalena Glenz Rebecca Brooks Jacinda Njike Carolina A. Escobar Paula Guerra Jennifer Lenhart, PhD Facundo Etchebehere Claudia Nicolini Melissa Pinfield Daniel Vercelli Sara Velander Nicolás B. Gaspar Guevara Clarisa Marambio Mariann Breu Pan Ei Ei Phyoe Mohamed Tarek Kamar Wangu Mwangi Francisco Velasco Dellafiori Constanza Montenegro Rubilar Daniela Tejada-Venegas Marina Dragicevic Parot Samuel Goodman Ignace Beguin Billecocq Isadora Pla Benjamin Navarro Diaz

🌟As the Mangrove Breakthrough Council kicks off its second year, we would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Council Member and new Council Chair! Emmanuelle Pinault – Department Director of Systems Transformation at High-Level Climate Champions 🌍 Emanuelle oversees the delivery of the 2030 Breakthroughs, a set of clear, simple goals created to align the Energy, Transport, Industry, Buildings, Nature, and Carbon Removals sectors around shared decarbonization 2030 targets, with the objective to halve emissions by 2030, enable net zero by 2050, and keep global warming to 1.5 degree. 🌱 Jennifer Howard– Vice President of Conservation International's Blue Carbon Program and Global Mangrove Alliance Representative 🌊 Jennifer is driving global partnerships to protect coastal ecosystems and combat climate change. Her work focuses on implementing scalable mechanisms to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems to protect threatened coastal communities, combat climate change, and conserve coastal biodiversity. 🌿 Welcome to both of you!

🌿 🇲🇽 Mexico just became the 36th government to endorse the Mangrove Breakthrough! Mexico’s Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources Alicia Bárcena reaffirmed Mexico's dedication to protecting and restoring 15 million hectares of mangrove ecosystems, while also backing the Breakthrough’s bold financial goal of mobilizing USD 4 billion by 2030. She highlighted the Breakthrough’s bold financial goals to mobilise USD 4 billion by 2030, highlighting Mexico’s issuance of a blue bond as a first step. Bárcena closed her speech with an inspiring quote from Colombian poet Lucrecia Panchano, setting the stage for a productive 2-day workshop in Mexico City. The Mangrove Breakthrough Hub is hosted by Ambition Loop. 🌍💪

💼🌟 Consulting Opportunity! The Mangrove Breakthrough is looking for a qualified team of consultants to design and develop a Global Mangrove Finance Facility. The Mangrove Finance Facility would: 🌍💰 Mobilize public, private, and philanthropic capital. 🌱🌊 Invest in mangrove restoration, conservation, and community-based projects. 💸🔍 Be agile and Capable of investing in a complex environment The consultant(s) will provide the following deliverables: 🔍📋Needs Assessment and Context Analysis 📐💰 Design of the Facility 🛠️📊 Development of Operational Tools 🛣️📅 Roadmap for Implementation The Breakthrough Hub is hosted by Ambition Loop. ⏳📅The deadline to submit your proposal is February 10. Interested? For more details, reach out to mangroves@ambitionloop.earth.

Exciting news! 🇲🇽 Mexico’s government has officially endorsed the Mangrove Breakthrough 🌱🌍. The endorsement brings the total number of national and subnational governments to 36 , alongside dozens of NGOs , research organizations , and financial institutions. The endorsement coincides with an in-person workshop, co-hosted by the Global Mangrove Alliance and Mangrove Breakthrough. Leading researchers, NGOs, and financial institutions are coming together to define a clear path to mobilize crucial funding 💸 for a mangrove-positive future —starting in Mexico and beyond! https://lnkd.in/eUr_YEHf

🌱🌍 The Mangrove Breakthrough Hub is hiring! 🌿💰📊 We are looking for a Finance Lead to help reach our goal of mobilizing $4 billion to protect and restore mangroves by 2030. As Finance Lead, you will: 🔹Build and manage a network of top-tier public & private finance institutions and experts 🔹Collaborate to develop a pipeline of groundbreaking projects 🔹Forge strategic partnerships to scale our mission 📅Deadline: February 7th Send your resume and a cover letter to mangroves@ambitionloop.earth  explaining why you’re the perfect fit.