Debt and equityCrowdfunding
Approach for projects, organizations, entrepreneurs, and startups to raise money for their causes from multiple individual donors or investors.
Debt for nature swaps
Agreement that reduces a developing country’s debt stock or service in exchange for a commitment to protect nature.
Enterprise challenge funds
Funding instrument that distributes grants (or concessional finance) to profit-seeking projects on a competitive basis.
Environmental trust funds
Legal entity and investment vehicle to help mobilizing, blending, and overseeing the collection and allocation of financial resources for environmental purposes.
Green bonds
Bonds where proceeds are invested exclusively in projects that generate climate or other environmental benefits.
Impact investment
Investments made with the intention to generate a measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.
Remittances (Diaspora Financing)
Private unrequited transfers sent from abroad to families and communities in a worker's country of origin.
Social and development impact bonds (Results-Based Financing)
A public-private partnership that allows private (impact) investors to upfront capital for public projects that deliver social and environmental outcomes in exchange for a financial interest.
