Grow Solutions

Transforming Nature Finance for Lasting Impact

Pollination Foundation is a neutral convenor uniquely placed to host Nature Finance Collectives.

Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua Province, Indonesia. Image credit: Anemone

Our Vision

Connecting readiness, tools, expertise and finance across the project lifecycle.

A Nature Finance Collective is not an individual fund, rather convenings and trusted collaboration platforms to build the readiness of philanthropy, government, businesses and investors.

Unique to each region, a Nature Finance Collective aligns capital, creates the tools and builds the confidence to partner with Indigenous Nations.

This will create the trust and confidence to flow $600 million per year by 2030 into nature solutions that have Indigenous leadership and equitable partnerships at the heart.

 

 

Our impact

Nature Finance Collectives

To grow nature finance solutions from seed to scale we need to mobilise the right types of capital (grants, debt and equity) at the right time.

Resourced by partnerships with philanthropy

Connecting end-to-end funding capability from seed stage to scale stage, Nature Finance Collectives will be the go-to convenings and platform for resources, access to experts, insights and finance unique to each region. This means the people best placed to heal nature continue to do that without using their precious resources to find the right expertise and funding at the right time. 

 

Resources

Our Expertise and Thought Leadership

Discover critical insights from our flagship reports and thought leadership, capturing best practices, emerging trends, and practical guidance: 

Partnerships for Nature: insights from Indigenous-led models in Canada

15 April 2025 / WORDS BY Pollination Foundation

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Transforming Nature Finance: Lessons from COP16

10 November 2024 / WORDS BY Kirsty Galloway McLean

Conversations hosted by Pollination Foundation and the UNEP Finance Initiative during COP16 revealed critical insights into how Indigenous leadership and equitable partnerships are reshaping nature finance.

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Unleashing the power of scale: how to invest in nature-based solutions for global impact

11 July 2023 / WORDS BY Kirsty Galloway McLean

The success of nature-based solutions will depend on how well we can create the systemic change needed to scale them.   

Imagine if you were to suddenly multiply your own daily responsibilities tenfold. Would you have the infrastructure – mental, physical and temporal – to maintain your current level of efficiency and effectiveness?

This thought experiment forms the crux of the challenge we face in our collective pursuit to address the world’s most pressing environmental challenges and achieve our global sustainable development goals. It is not simply about replication of small-scale successes – just as your personal life would require significant recalibration to accommodate a surge in responsibilities, efforts to scale conservation solutions cannot be limited solely to technological innovations. Rather, our investments and solutions must go beyond incremental growth; they must spark systemic change to ensure a truly sustainable future.

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WATCH: How do we ensure a ‘just transition’ to nature positive?

23 September 2022 / WORDS BY Pollination

In Part 2, we explored the importance of a just and equitable transition, as we move toward a nature positive world.

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WATCH: What is ‘nature positive’?

16 August 2022 / WORDS BY Pollination

In Part 1, we explored the rapidly emerging thinking and policy related to a nature positive future. The session was moderated by Jane Hutchinson (Co-CEO, Pollination Foundation), with Martijn Wilder AM (CEO, Pollination), Sally Townsend (Head of Sustainability, Blackmores), Rayne van den Berg (CFO, Forico) and Melissa Sinclair (GM, APN Cape York).

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Completed Projects

Amazon Rainforest. Image Credit: Gustavo Frazao

Join Us in Transforming Nature Finance

We invite visionary investors and partners committed to flowing finance to solutions that heal nature, people and planet. Together, we can seed new models, grow collaborative platforms, to replicate solutions that have Indigenous leadership and equitable partnerships at the heart globally.

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