There are many emerging opportunities for private sector and business investment in nature and people, as well as opportunities to ensure that business and financial practice in a wide range of sectors is ‘nature positive’. CCI partners and collaborations bring expertise that can help inform those wishing to invest or to support such investments, to make sure that they are genuinely effective. This includes guidance on:

• What are the most pressing biodiversity conservation and restoration challenges, and where are the most pressing issues and places that need investment;
• What good conservation and restoration look like, and how evidence from multiple sources can support it;
• How to ensure that local communities and indigenous people are included, and their rights and livelihoods respected;
• Which on-the-ground delivery partners are working in particular settings, and the intermediaries and platforms through which investors might identify and connect with them;
• Particular accreditation and benchmarking schemes for biodiversity and carbon, and the different assumptions and implications underlying these;
• Methodologies and technologies for verification, accreditation, monitoring and evaluation of the impact of interventions;
• The tensions and trade-offs, and sources of questioning, that those supporting private sector investments for nature might face, as they encounter different perspectives from, for instance, regulatory authorities or civil society.