Investing in Mangroves 2025

Infrastructure developers –Both public and private infrastructure developers, who participate directly in mangrove-positive projects by integrating them into their business models (e.g. through nature-based solutions) and ensuring that infrastructure development conserves and restores mangroves in project areas. –Can play key roles in providing the necessary shared infrastructure that enables access to business models through jurisdictional approaches (defined in section 3.4) and supports the needs of both mangroves and IPs & LCs. –Receive a financial or impact return. To ensure the effectiveness of infrastructure, those maintaining it require ongoing support, education and training. Investment vehicles –Financial instruments or structures used by individuals, institutions or organizations to allocate capital with the aim of generating returns or achieving specific investment goals. Regional governments –Provide necessary regional support and regulation, receiving taxes in return. –Help de-risk mangrove-positive action by providing clear and stable regulation, an enabling environment and concessionary capital. Sustainability credit buyers –Purchase sustainability credits such as carbon credits, biodiversity credits, stormwater credits and more, to invest directly into business models that are based on natural capital restoration and/or conservation. –Interact with multiple certification bodies, for example to verify and validate credits on a market and ensure socio-economic considerations are applied with care. –Sustainability credits have a unique role in enabling commercial viability of business models in more remote areas, where conventional logistical supply chains can be costly and/or unfeasible. Market access players –Stakeholders such as processors, middlemen, domestic retailers, traders and others that enable the business model’s product to reach market. –Receive financial and/or impact return from supply chain buyers. –Play a key role in providing advance market commitments that de-risk business models and influence production activities (including certification processes). –Critical to supply chain transparency as they interact with certification bodies, often necessary for supply chain offtakers and business models to achieve a sustainable product certification. Supply chain offtakers –Purchase product from market access players and sell to consumers, or consume the product themselves. –Play a key role in providing advance market commitments that de-risk business models and influence production activities, including certification processes. Philanthropy, NGOs, finance, insurance and alliances –Provide multiple points and methods of support for mangrove-positive action, including capacity building and project team training. –The detailed roles of these components are varied and beyond the scope of this report, and in many cases warrant their own engagement maps.Components and interactions of the mangrove-positive System Map (continued) TABLE 1 With a System Map like the one at Figure 3, companies can: –Better assess the materiality of existing and potential interactions, including which intervention opportunities match their values and strengths. –Understand and expand the transformative potential of their interactions, while better avoiding unnecessary risks and trade-offs of those interactions. –Identify and encourage innovative value creation opportunities and valuable multi-stakeholder partnerships. –Better frame the need for necessary policy change that will enable further corporate mangrove-positive action.When companies see their role within the framework of actors involved in mangrove action, this holistic view that caters to people, nature and climate supports high-quality action and avoids maladaptation that can result from too narrow a focus, maximizing the beneficial outcomes for corporations while avoiding integrity issues.82 On a broader level, having a map of the entire system can support an understanding of what is possible for each stakeholder to do, expose untapped collective value opportunities, outline which interventions are most marginally beneficial, reinforce the need for multi-stakeholder collaboration, and support the monitoring and evaluation of interventions. Investing in Mangroves: The Corporate Playbook 18