At the Inclusive Finance Network Luxembourg InFiNe.lu’s Knowledge Sharing Event (KSE) on 11 July, Ludwig Liagre, PhD Liagre, Founder and managing director of Rio Impact, presented the following topic:
#Conservation #Trust #Funds: Key Instruments for #Biodiversity Financing and Beyond. During this meeting with over 40 InFiNe members, he explained how Conservation Trust Funds work in general, shared good practice and highlighted the ways in which they can be spent with #vulnerable #communities. He also presented Rio Impact's experience in Sao Tomé and Principé, opening up the discussion at the end to a sharing of ideas on capitalisation options, effective spending of these funds and their use beyond biodiversity benefits (also for the climate, ecosystem services and local communities).
After a great presentation, many questions were asked by the participants. Open questions for further discussion on this topic were:
💡 How can CTFs support indigenous people and local communities?
💡 How can CTFs maximize local impact of financial resources?
💡 What Luxembourg stakeholders can do to boost CTFs good practices and relevance for inclusive finance?
The consulting firm Rio Impact has been operating since 2019 in the fields of finance for climate action, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration. Particularly active in the countries of the South, Rio Impact has led more than forty projects in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
In particular Rio Impact provides advice on:
• Financing solutions and fundraising for Biodiversity conservation, Landscape restoration and Climate action.
• Synergies between Rio conventions at country level, through policy advice, planning processes, project design and financing.
• The development of integrated land use initiatives and projects following a landscape approach.
• A north-south co-development pathway towards an inclusive green economy
Rio Impact has developed in-depth expertise in the design of domestic financing mechanisms such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), Conservation Trust Funds, National Climate Funds and National Forest Funds. In this context, issues related to benefit-sharing and the inclusion of local populations and communities are essential for sustainable and successful mechanisms. For example, PES schemes are often used to support the ecological transition while strengthening the economic and social resilience of vulnerable populations.
In addition, through the organization of more than 30 training sessions on topics related to climate and biodiversity finance, Rio Impact has developed a strong expertise in capacity-building and has recently created a branch dedicated to training, Rio Campus, registered as a training organization in Luxembourg.
#biodiversity #climate #finance #inclusive #finance
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