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Hassan Aftab Sheikh¹, Divya Narain¹, Clint Bartlett²

¹Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.

|October 28, 2025

Summary

Mobilizing private capital is crucial for nature conservation, but projects are often seen as unbankable due to high risks and uncertain returns. Reframing risk-return dynamics is key to unlocking essential private investment for nature.

Keywords:

Economics Environmental science Natural resources Nature conservation

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Area of Science:

Environmental Finance
Conservation Economics
Sustainable Investment

Background:

Public finance alone cannot meet the investment needs for nature protection and restoration.
Nature-related projects are perceived as unbankable due to high risks and uncertain financial returns.
Investor demands for commercial returns, standardization, and short paybacks conflict with nature project characteristics.

Purpose of the Study:

To identify barriers to mobilizing private capital for nature conservation.
To analyze the misalignment between investor expectations and nature project characteristics.
To propose solutions for unlocking scalable private finance for nature.

Main Methods:

Systematic literature review across five ecosystems.
Analysis of three intervention types within nature conservation.
Identification of persistent barriers and enabling conditions.

Main Results:

Key barriers include limited financial returns, high risk, high transaction costs, and undervaluation of nature.
Enabling conditions like blended finance and supportive regulation exist but are insufficient.
Nature projects often fail to meet standard investor thresholds for risk and return.

Conclusions:

Reframing the risk-return dynamics is critical for attracting private finance to nature.
Addressing the perceived unbankability of nature projects requires innovative financial approaches.
Scalable private investment is essential to supplement public funding for global conservation efforts.