Finance Day

Restoring land at scale requires around one billion US dollars per day, but current funding falls far short. 

Finance Day will bring together ministers of finance, development banks and the private sector to help close this gap and unlock large-scale investment. During this day, specific land-intensive value chain sectors will gather and discuss how to adopt sustainable land management practices, invest in land restoration and drought resilience. Considering the presence of leaders, ministers and other critical stakeholders, different thematic and sectorial events will happen in parallel. The program includes, among others:

• Opening of the High-Level Segment
• Ministerial Dialogue on innovative financial mechanisms for healthy land and drought resilience
• Business4Land Forum
• Launch of the Rangelands flagship initiative
• Mining Sector Forum
• Fashion for Land High-Level Forum and Show
• Special High-Level Ministerial event on Security and Migration

These events are expected to position healthy land as an economic and financial priority, support new pledges and partnerships, expand corporate commitments on land footprint reduction, drought resilience, regenerative supply chains and natural capital disclosure and advance sector-specific commitments in areas such as responsible mining, land rehabilitation, regenerative fibres and traceability. Finance Day is also expected to support work on a common multilateral development bank session on a common taxonomy for sustainable land-use and drought-resilience finance, and the launch of the Rangeland Flagship Initiative.