This 2025 report by CCAG outlines the expectations and challenges facing the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) market, based on surveys of both suppliers and purchasers. It reveals a widening pricing gap, heavy reliance on net‑zero standards to drive demand, and a planned shift toward durable CDR, though scaling remains hindered by cost and quality uncertainties.
This May 2025 report by Convergence analyzes the blended finance market in 2024, highlighting a steady increase in deal flow and median deal size, with commercial capital outpacing development finance institutions. It identifies challenges such as limited local capital mobilization and transparency, exacerbated by declining development assistance.
Ecosystem Marketplace’s Nature’s Investment Frontier report examines how biodiversity finance markets can help address global ecological challenges. Published in April 2025, it emphasizes the need for integrity in market design. It focuses on public-private partnerships, systemic changes in how we value nature, and integrating biodiversity into sectors like infrastructure. The report stresses that true nature-positive outcomes depend on careful planning, not shortcuts.
Ecosystem Marketplace’s Nature’s Investment Frontier report examines how biodiversity finance markets can help address global ecological challenges. Published in April 2025, it emphasizes the need for integrity in market design. It focuses on public-private partnerships, systemic changes in how we value nature, and integrating biodiversity into sectors like infrastructure. The report stresses that true nature-positive outcomes depend on careful planning, not shortcuts.
In this report, the World Economic Forum argues that investing in natural capital is essential, attractive and feasible. Released in September 2024, it assesses ways of unlocking capital for NCS as well as the innovations currently emerging in the market. It highlights that natural capital (that is the world’s stock of renewable and non-renewable natural resources that can deliver benefits to people) per capita dropped by 40% between 1992 and 2014, while produced capital doubled in the same period.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) released a guide to help financial institutions disclose climate and nature-related risk and risk management strategies. Published in September 2024, this guide offers practical steps for financial institutions to follow and explains the importance of nature in the context of net zero plans.
In September 2024, Nature4Climate analysed exisiting resources to better understand the sources of funding for forests. It considered both the current and potential contributions of each funding source to forest conservation and restoration projects and found that, while public finance is critical, it is unlikely to scale annually. Therefore, the report concluded that scaling up private finance is vital for global climate mitigation.
This eight-page paper from IETA outlines the urgency with which natural climate solutions need financial backing. Released in June 2024, it presents the climate case: That an estimated 210 GTCO2e of nature-based removals will be needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C, with additional scaling up required until 2050. And the business case: Investments in NCS represent a cost-effective, near-term opportunity to help scale the impact of corporate transitions to net zero.
It’s widely recognised that climate solutions need finance. But how can this be achieved? This briefing paper, published by The World Economic Forum in January 2023, considers the state of finance in the voluntary carbon market and makes a series of recommendations to help it scale. These include engaging with the ICVCM and VCMI’s work and publicly declaring participation to help signal demand. It also offers guidance to help businesses build evolving carbon credit portfolios over time.
This briefing paper from The World Economic Forum and Bain & Company provides an insight into the critical challenges delaying the voluntary carbon market from achieving scale. Published in January 2023, it also provides recommendations intended to help corporate leaders adopt climate positive strategies and address the challenges present in the voluntary carbon market.