This market study presents the interest in investing for the LDN. It shows the needs for a new investment fund along with the opportunities and gaps within the LDN sector.
Table of content:
- Current state of the land
- Defining land degradation
- World land use overview
- Current state of degradation
- Main causes of degradation
- Consequences of land degradation
- Moving towards land degradation neutrality (LDN)
- LDN enabling conditions
- A land of opportunities
- Public momentum
- Driving forces for the LDN market
- Key actors in the LDN sector
- Project developers & investment managers
- Funding sources
- Industries
- Investment readiness of the LDN sector – opportunities and gaps
- Sector observations
- Investment-specific observations
- The LDN Fund as a source of transformative capital
- LDN Fund could invest worldwide in both developed and emerging economies
- LDN Fund could be a source of patient, long-term capital
- LDN Fund could incubate ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ investment strategies through its Technical Assistance Facility
- LDN Fund could support promising emerging project developers and investment managers
- LDN Fund could develop synergies with established project developers and investment managers
- LDN Fund could be investment aggregator and coordinator
- LDN Fund could invest concessionary capital in blended finance structures
