The Event Report from the 8th GLF Investment Case highlights how finance can be transformed to support long-term wellbeing and nature-positive outcomes by centering local leadership, reforming incentives, mobilizing catalytic and blended finance, and responsibly using digital tools and AI to channel capital toward communities restoring landscapes and seascapes.
Key messages
- Finance must be repurposed for long-term wellbeing and regeneration, embedding communities culture and leadership; landscape understanding; inclusive finance and knowledge systems to advance equity and stewardship.
- Mainstreaming nature in finance demands incentive reform, strong safeguards, and nature-positive instruments aligned with the three Rio Conventions and locally led biodiversity finance – essential for climate action and economies within planetary boundaries.
- Locally-led financial models are driving innovation – new digital tools are powering locally-led finance, shaping portfolios and channeling capital directly to the stewards restoring landscapes and seascapes.
- Catalytic capital is essential – DFIs, philanthropy need to work together; provide guarantees, insurance and new blended finance to unlock private investment at scale.
- AI can accelerate capital flows responsibly when governed to strengthen sovereignty, transparency, and locally defined metrics
