Integrated Landscape Finance: Coordinated Funding to Multiply Large-scale Benefits

Overview

This introductory brief provides an accessible overview of integrated landscape finance (ILF) and how it can help mobilize and coordinate investment for more sustainable and resilient landscapes. It introduces the concepts of landscapes and landscape partnerships, explains why coordinated finance is essential for addressing interconnected ecological, economic, and social challenges, and outlines how ILF brings together public, private, and civic sources of finance. The brief also explores emerging financial models and approaches that can help landscape partnerships align investments with locally agreed objectives, restore ecosystems, strengthen local economies, and accelerate regenerative transformation at landscape scale.