50 Investible Opportunities for a New Nature Economy 2026

Developing pathways for the opportunities to scale up2 Understanding the broad set of opportunities through four distinct archetypes uncovers unique benefits, needs and challenges. While the 50+ nature-positive investible opportunities demonstrate immense variety, they can be categorized into four broad and distinct archetypes as follows: Operational uplifts Scalable opportunities Emerging innovations Ecosystem opportunitiesCategorization depends on an opportunity’s tech maturity (development stage of the technology) and capital intensity (amount of capital required to execute on the opportunity). Individual opportunities may move between archetypes over time as they scale up, deepen their nature impact, and mature in terms of technology, business model and financing. This chapter provides more detail on each of the opportunities, presenting a brief description, along with its primary nature impact, climate and social co-benefits, primary financial impact, and transformative impact in terms of tech maturity, capital intensity and scalability. 2.1 Investible opportunity archetypes Nature-positive investible opportunity archetypes FIGURE 5 Four types of nature-positive opportunities offer differing tech maturities, capital intensities and barriers to scaling-up Technological/process maturity Capital intensityLow Low Medium HighMediumHighOperational uplifts Proven, well-understood operational improvements that deliver efficiency gains and risk reductions, often with lower capital needs and shorter payback periods. 1 Scalable opportunities Opportunities which have demonstrated viability in pilots or at a local level and require demand certainty (e.g. because products currently come at a premium) and/or defined risk allocation to help them scale up. Ecosystem opportunities Opportunities requiring coordinated action across value chains to aggregate supply, demand, data and infrastructure to help them scale up. 4 Emerging innovations Early-stage ventures with significant potential that require staged investment to increase technological and commercial maturity.2 3 15 50 Investible Opportunities for a New Nature Economy