Amazonia

Blended Finance: Unlocking Funding for Sustainable Businesses in the Amazon

Blended Finance: Unlocking Funding for Sustainable Businesses in the Amazon

Quando estruturado de forma eficaz, o financiamento combinado pode conectar empreendedores que precisam de apoio com investidores que se preocupam com o impacto. Para facilitar a compreensão desse modelo, NESsT criou um infográfico que mostra claramente como o financiamento combinado funciona na prática e destaca seu papel no ecossistema de impacto da Amazônia. Essa ferramenta visual divide ideias financeiras complexas em linguagem simples, tornando-a valiosa para empreendedores, formuladores de políticas, parceiros e qualquer pessoa interessada em promover a bioeconomia amazônica por meio de financiamento inovador. 

NESsT Joins Conexsus, IDB, and Green Climate Fund to Scale Enterprises from the Sociobioeconomy Across the Pan-Amazon Region

NESsT Joins Conexsus, IDB, and Green Climate Fund to Scale Enterprises from the Sociobioeconomy Across the Pan-Amazon Region

NESsT announces today that it has joined the Sustainable Connections Institute (Conexsus), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in AmazonBeEco, an unprecedented four-year initiative to support the sociobioeconomy in the Pan-Amazon region.

Technology Meets Traditional Knowledge in the Amazon’s Socio-Bioeconomy

Technology Meets Traditional Knowledge in the Amazon’s Socio-Bioeconomy

Many community-based enterprises in emerging sustainable socio-bioeconomy value chains lack the means and infrastructure to adopt digital monitoring and communication tools to track forest conservation and improve their production processes. With support from Cisco Foundation, in 2021, NESsT launched a search for early-stage technology enterprises that provide sustainable livelihoods to underserved communities and regenerate the environment. Read more about the initiative learnings here.

The Methods Behind NESsT’s Study to Bring Local Perspectives to Bioeconomy Financing Discussions

The Methods Behind NESsT’s Study to Bring Local Perspectives to Bioeconomy Financing Discussions

This blog delves into the methodology behind NESsT’s publication to improve the targeting, accessibility, efficacy, and efficiency of investments in the Amazon bioeconomy; it homes in on NESsT’s firm intention to bring local voices to global discussions around Amazon bioeconomy funding and explores how NESsT anchored the publication in authentic narratives and diverse Amazonian contexts while tailoring the message for the international financing community.