50 Investible Opportunities for a New Nature Economy 2026

Insurance products to support emerging innovations (continued) BOX 5 Key insurance product innovations include: –Performance guarantees for technology, covering losses due to technology underperformance below a set criterion. –Cyber liability insurance for emerging risks resulting from the integration of new technologies. –Parametric cover for under-supply or under-demand to mitigate strategic and financial losses from supply chain disruptions or shifts in market demand. –Parametric cover for plant underperformance due to poor weather, including financial losses suffered as a result of lost production, lost demand and operational disruption. –Unconventional credit insurance for start-ups or counterparties which do not satisfy usual requirements for credit markets. –Offtaker payment risk insurance, to cover losses from the failure of offtakers to pay contractually due amounts. Insurers are continuing to innovate to support a nature-positive future, whether through new product offerings or skills and capacity-building initiatives such as the UNEP-FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance Working Group For Nature. Sources: United Nations Environment Programme, Marsh.18 Ecosystem opportunities are investment and innovation prospects that require collaboration across an ecosystem of actors from multiple sectors and stakeholders along entire value chains to unlock their potential. Unlike isolated projects, these opportunities thrive on the coordinated efforts of diverse players – from large corporations and manufacturers to start-ups, technology providers and end-users. For example: Aggregating supply, demand, infrastructure and data, creating economies of scale that no single player can typically achieve independently. Policy-makers also play a key role to lower coordination costs and align incentives among diverse actors, as well as to provide common rules and shared infrastructure. Collaborations often combine the strengths of large established players with the innovative agility of start-ups, fostering an environment where shared investments and risk-sharing are possible. Despite their potential, ecosystem opportunities face several barriers to scale. Coordinating multiple stakeholders with differing objectives and priorities can be complex, often requiring extensive negotiation and alignment of incentives. The need for shared infrastructure and data platforms presents both financial and technical challenges, particularly in ensuring fair access and managing proprietary information. 2.5 Ecosystem opportunities 50 Investible Opportunities for a New Nature Economy 29