Business case development to support climate resilient landscapes

Climate change has major consequences for people and nature. Many of the more vulnerable countries in the tropics lack the financial and other resources to adapt to climate change effects. In a new paper, we outline the key lessons learned from our project MoMo4C on development of green business cases in tropical landscapes.

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To address the causes and consequences of climate change and achieve broader goals for inclusive sustainable development, it is important to improve the resilience of landscapes with a unique and high biodiversity.

Developing green business propositions

MoMo4C is a five-year programme of IUCN NL, WWF Netherlands and Tropenbos International and implementing partners that are based in landscapes in Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, Uganda and Zambia. The programme is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

MoMo4C applies an integrated landscape approach: it aims to develop green business propositions that tackle the impacts and causes of climate change by bringing together entrepreneurs, companies, policymakers, investors, civil society organisations and local entrepreneurs at the landscape level.

Investments for climate resilience

Through bottom-up development of these business cases, the goal of the programme is to attract new or redirect existing green investments to rural, biodiverse areas that have poor access to finance. These investments boost inclusive, climate resilient and sustainable landscape development.