Explore our briefs: short, easy to read, and accessible summaries of Invest4Natures research and reports.
Based on interviews and workshops with 49 European companies, this brief examines how businesses integrate NbS into their practices while navigating a complex regulatory landscape. It highlights company perspectives, key challenges and policy recommendations to support NbS adoption.
Despite growing interest in NbS, a comprehensive market has not yet emerged, and evidence on effective financing mechanisms remains fragmented. This brief presents insights from Invest4Nature’s analysis of NbS financing models and incentives, highlighting financing sources, investment effectiveness, key drivers and barriers, and recommendations to attract private investment and support the wider uptake of NbS.
This brief explores how NbS can be better integrated into European value chains. It identifies key barriers and enablers for increasing demand, strengthening supply chains, attracting private investment, and scaling NbS across sectors.
Focusing on Nature-based Enterprises, this brief presents findings on their characteristics, market opportunities, financing sources, and financial needs. It also highlights key challenges and provides recommendations to improve access to suitable financing.
Despite the growing recognition of NbS, their economic implications are not yet fully understood, making informed financing and resource allocation difficult. This brief addresses this gap by outlining key NbS actions and their underlying ecological processes across six landscape types: freshwater, agricultural, urban, mountain, coastal, and forested areas. It also explores the costs and benefits of NbS and approaches for valuing their diverse benefits.
Based on public sector interviews, this brief analyses the key drivers and barriers shaping investment in NbS. It highlights the role of different governance levels and provides recommendations for strengthening public sector support and unlocking the economic value of NbS.
A survey of private capital providers offers insights into their readiness to invest in NbS, identifying key investment opportunities and barriers, as well as the support mechanisms needed to mobilise greater private capital.
Despite growing policy recognition of NbS, their large-scale implementation and financing remain limited. This brief examines how EU policies and sustainable finance frameworks support NbS, outlining key gaps and barriers, shortcomings in the EU Taxonomy, and recommendations to mobilise investment and accelerate NbS uptake.
