Challenges and opportunities to scale up sustainable finance after the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons and promising innovations from science and practice.

Transitioning to a sustainable future with inclusive, green economies and resilient ecosystems requires huge investments. The rescue packages imposed by the COVID-19 crisis make the pursuit of global sustainability goals even more dependent on urgent investment decisions to be taken by the public and private sector. This article examines some of the basic conditions for scaling up sustainable finance, focussing in particular on decision-support tools (DSTs) that guide investment decisions, such as metrics, rankings, ratings and standards.

Private-sector investor's intention and motivation to invest in Land Degradation Neutrality.

Private-sector investors could be key players in combatting global land degradation and realising the emerging concept of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN). To better understand how to incentivize private-sector investors for LDN, we conducted an online-survey of 68 private-sector investors. Structural equation modelling based on the theory of planned behavior was performed to investigate how cognitive, social, emotional, motivational and financial determinants influence their intention and motivation to invest in LDN.