Coalition Organizations
The Natural Capital Coalition is an international collaboration that unites leading initiatives and organizations under a common vision of a world that conserves and enhances natural capital.
The Coalition is made up of almost 300 organizations (and engages many thousands more) which together represent all parts of society. These organizations fall into seven broad stakeholder groups or ‘worlds’: business, finance, conservation and civil society, government and policy, science and academia, standard setters & disclosure and membership organizations.
Coalition organizations share a common belief that we can do more together than we can alone, and an understanding that it is only by bringing the many different parts of the system together as part of a purpose-led conversation that we can we affect real change. The Coalition’s strength comes from this belief, and from the diversity it brings.
Find out more about joining the Coalition here.
Agro -Ecological Investment Management
Finance
AE seeks to demonstrate that by enhancing and developing environmental positives as a matter of course, it is possible to create greatly improved investment outcomes.
Blue Finance
Finance
Blue Finance (BF) is a dynamic, new NGO, with a primary objective of helping marine ecosystems both from an economic and integrated management perspective. We started in 2010 in the South Pacific and in the Caribbean as a project aimed at providing technical advice to develop “innovative” financing mechanisms with local communities and the private sector for MPAs and saw a need to become more involved in the establishment, management and implementation of MPAs.
BF is convinced that utilising the Private Sector in the management of marine conservation spaces in many cases is crucial and that this sector can make significant contributions to the long term, sustainable financing, required for conservation. Using this sector as a financing organ could lessen the need for both government and NGO funding; the former being usually insufficient and the latter non sustainable.
The small team possesses members of different profiles each with 20 years expertise in conservation finance, resource economics, Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Marine Biology and Ecology, Marine Park Management, Stakeholder Engagement and Fund Raising. BF is committed to bringing a multifaceted response plan for marine conservation
We can therefore contribute to each of the Coalition’s mission objectives, as we believe and work in multidisciplinary conditions, have projects entered on building the business case for inclusion in decision making, are supporting the shift of corporate behaviour towards environmental returns and enabling policy environments.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Funder
Finance
Calvert
Finance
Credit Suisse
Finance
Credit Suisse AG is a global bank, providing financial and related advisory services to a wide range of clients active in various sectors across the globe. Bank clients with upstream business operations in sensitive industries in particular increasingly understand that a practicable approach to embedding corporate sustainability into their operations is necessary for their long term economic viability. In this regard a broader understanding of the definition, key issues and management of natural capital is essential. Credit Suisse – and the financial sector at large – is a key conduit for this engagement with businesses, issue researchers, governments and the NGO community. Credit Suisse has previously provided feedback on the Draft Natural Capital Protocol and will continue with such support.
European Investment Bank (EIB)
Finance
The European Investment Bank (EIB) applies stringent environmental and social standards, including on the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems, in the operations it finances, and requires all its projects promoters to comply with them. The EIB also includes, wherever quantifiable, environmental externalities, in its economic appraisal of projects. The Bank is also looking into the development of different accounting approaches based on credible methodologies, metrics and data sets with regard to natural capital aspects. Attention is requires in order to integrate a consistent approach across the Bank’s portfolio, as well as to strengthen innovative financing instruments such as the Natural Capital Financing Facility.
By joining the Natural Capital Coalition (NCC), the EIB would like to contribute and be part of this community of practice with respect to protecting and valuing biodiversity and ecosystems. It is in our interest to promote increased coherence on metrics, accounting approaches as well as data sources used for valuation in order to systematically integrate their application in different sectors. In this context, the EIB will actively contribute to the annual NCC Collaboration Day. For example, the Bank would like to bring together practitioners and experts to discuss how to best integrate valuation of biodiversity aspects and ecosystem services into environmental-economic accounting and decision-making.
FMO Dutch Development Bank
Founder
Contributor
Finance
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Funder
Finance
Green Investment Bank
Finance
IFC
Funder
Finance
Inter-American Development Bank
Finance
IDB’s Natural Capital Lab is a one-stop shop for the IDB Group to drive innovation in the conservation, landscape, regenerative agriculture, biodiversity, and marine ecosystem finance spaces. It bridges the gap between traditional environmental and financial actors from the public and private sectors to incubate, accelerate, and scale new solutions to pressing problems.
The NCL is a risk-tolerant hub within the IDB Group. Given that the solutions to many natural capital problems are cross-cutting, it pursues an agenda of blended finance projects with all parts of the IDB Group (IDB, IDB Invest, IDB Lab), in addition to its own projects, knowledge, and strategic partnerships.
As a lab for financial innovation, activities include the deployment of funding in the form of grants, loans, equity, risk capital, or guarantees to:
• Test new models in natural capital finance across the public and private sectors
• Accelerate the deployment of new technologies
• Create enabling regulatory frameworks for innovation in natural capital
• Identify entrepreneurs and projects, and support them with risk capital and linkages to innovation ecosystems
• Link projects to existing investors, international funding sources (such as the GEF), and IDB finance for scale
• Test large-scale financing models for conservation
• Experiment with investment based on natural capital valuation/risk
• Work with anchor companies in valuing and leveraging natural capital in their supply chains
The achievement of the SDGs will only happen if the diversity of actors involved in advancing an innovation agenda learn to partner with each other. Government, academia, private sector, entrepreneurs, and civil society cannot solve problems alone. The NCL prioritizes multi-stakeholder partnerships and provides evidence on how inclusive innovation facilitates results.
As a lab for strategic dialogue and partnerships, activities include:
• Detailing the economic case for investment in natural capital sectors
• Partnering with large global initiatives that convene leaders in technology, science, conservation, and business to develop dialogues on natural capital innovation
• Developing a network of ministries of finance and international actors, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, to discuss how natural capital can be a driver of development, not a cost
Inter-American Development Bank
New Forests
Finance
Quantrust Capital
Finance
We are a small asset manager. Our aim is to be marked leaders in green impact investing in listed financial markets such as green bonds, green equities, CO2 emission rights. Our experience is in hedge funds and global asset allocation. We take a big picture view on investing. But my heart felt passion in nature. Hence when we have switched to green investing and my long term goal is to plant lots of trees. As a member of “1% for the planet” we reserve at least one percent of our revenues for reforestation projects and charities and we are setting up our own foundation to facilitate this. We aim to contribute in any way possible in the filed of reforestation and on the frontier between financial markets and impact investing.
The Rockefeller Foundation
Funder
Finance
TD Bank
Contributor
Finance
TD will contribute to the Coalition’s mission by providing feedback to the pilot Natural Capital Protocol from a North American financial services perspective. Through this (so far) unique combination of industry and geographic perspective, we will demonstrate that Natural Capital is key for smart decision making regardless of industry or location.
The World Bank
Founder
Finance
YES BANK Ltd
Finance
YES BANK, since inception, has firmly placed inclusivity and sustainability as a part of its vision and strategy. Natural Capital is one of its key focus areas that has helped the Bank ensure risk mitigation, and cleaner portfolios. Being the first Indian signatory to Natural Capital Declaration (now the NCFA) helped the Bank build its domain expertise. Today, YES BANK has one of the largest Renewable Energy lending portfolios among private sector banks, is the first Indian bank to be ISO 14001 certified for Environmental Management System and is recognized as a Climate Disclosure Leader globally. YES BANK took a commitment of mobilizing USD 1 billion towards climate action and financing 5 GW of renewable energy till 2020 on the eve of COP 21, in order to support India’s ambitious renewable energy targets of 175 GW renewable energy capacities. The Bank intends to support the Coalition and its activities in India with the objective of mainstreaming natural capital thinking among Government, Corporates, and other stakeholders. The Bank also organizes the Natural Capital Awards which is a pioneering platform that mainstreams India’s natural capital dialogue by showcasing practices in natural capital consumption, accounting mechanisms and conservation within the industry and civil society. The awards were conceptualized to recognize and reward unique, scalable, and sustainable models with innovation in products, services, and processes to safeguard natural capital. Going forward the Bank will not only integrate natural capital-led perspectives into the Bank’s strategy and operations in order to make sustainable decisions, but also collaborate with the Coalition for specific activities that support a transition towards natural capital inclusive economy.