IUCN Green List Exchange

Welcome to the Exchange!

The IUCN Green List Exchange is a dedicated space for sharing ways to finance and resource conservation impact.

The Green List community can use the Exchange to share ideas and experiences on how to seek new resourcing and investment opportunities for successful conservation action.

Through the Exchange, IUCN will help mobilize the Green List Standard and programme for protected areas financing. ’Protected areas financing’ is a new strategic direction for scaling-up of the IUCN Green List by 2030. The Exchange will be powered by the IUCN Green List Finance Working group, comprised of interested experts and practitioners – Get Involved!

The Exchange will mobilize the value of the certification process of the IUCN Green List. This will help provide verification of impact and equitable outcomes to existing and new investments into protected and conserved areas in the Green List community.

Early priorities of the Exchange will be to develop and access markets for ecosystem services, such as for carbon mitigation and public health investments; and to explore new financial technologies for revenue generation for participating sites and their conservation actors.

Pioneer IUCN Green List Exchange projects include:

Digital Nature Conservation Marketplace

The Exchange features a Green List Marketplace where participating sites and their conservation actors can exchange digital goods and services to help finance conservation work.

For example, a digital species token is being pioneered by Nature Seychelles (Cousin Island Special Reserve) and Porini Foundation. If successful, this will be further developed with other interested sites and conservation actors into a series of ‘#NatureCollectibles’.

Find out more here

Download the APP and get your #Nature Collectible today!

The IUCN Green List Facility

The Finance Working Group are collaborating in the design and resourcing of an accessible conservation finance facility to support diagnoses and improvements and in participating Green List candidate and listed sites.

The IUCN Green List Bond

IUCN and partners are exploring a ‘Green List Bond’ instrument to link investment to performance metrics for impact and outcomes in and around protected and conserved areas.

Verifying IUCN Green List contributions to climate, ecosystem services and health

IUCN is helping protected and conserved areas community to validate their climate credentials through the IUCN Green List evaluation process and link verified contributions to climate finance mechanisms, as well as to emerging markets for ecosystem services, health and well-being benefits.

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