Implementation Programme
R4N is supporting an initial seven models across eight countries across the globe. Through working with partners and governments, R4N, aims to demonstrate the replicability and scaling of models and mechanisms that unlock private sector investment, such as mitigation banking, payments for ecosystem services, commodity supply chain financing and more.
R4N supports the partners to develop delivery plans for their expansion, which include landscape and policy analysis, demand and supply preparation, pilot development, capacity funding needs and financial structuring. By unlocking private sector through scalable, replicable revenue-driven models, the R4N project is charting a path toward a sustainable and financeable future for nature.
Through scaling and replicating these models, this cohort will unlock up to $200 million in investment into nature.
Please see below the 2025 Cohort:
Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs)
LENs help businesses with a shared interest in strategic sourcing landscapes to co-finance practical resilience interventions. Developed by 3Keel, with strategic support from Nestle, Diageo and PepsiCo, LENs broker negotiations and transactions between groups of businesses with common demands for nature-based solutions, and groups of land managers – farmers – who can deliver those solutions.
R4N will support LENs to scale and replicate across Europe to reduce nutrient pollution, address water scarcity and drought-related agricultural losses while providing supply chain resilience for businesses.
View case study here.
The Fisheries Improvement Fund
The Fisheries Improvement Fund is a financial mechanism designed to fund fishery improvements. Designed by WWF and managed by Finance Earth, the Fund finances Fishery Improvement Projects and wider fishery improvements. Investment is re-paid through quarterly volume-based fees paid by supply chain actors such as processors and retailers.
R4N will support Finance Earth in scaling and replicating this model in the Maldives to support improvements in the seafood processing sector to reduce post-harvest losses and decarbonize the supply chain.
View case study here.
The Living Amazon Mechanism
The LAM is a financial mechanism designed to support the bioeconomy in the Amazon, Brazil, while generating revenue for local cooperatives, agro-extractive associations, and family farmers. The blended finance model promotes forest conservation while strengthening supply chains for non-timber forest products.
R4N will support the scaling of the mechanism in the Amazon.
A detailed Guidebook on its structure will be available at the beginning of June.
Habitat Banking
Habitat Banking, also known as Mitigation Banking is a compliance model which generate revenues for conservation and restoration through the purchase of credits by actors that have caused a measured ecological damage (with a focus on habitat coverage), from projects that deliver ecological uplift to offset or mitigate said damage.
The Environmental Policy Innovation Centre (EPIC) with the support of R4N will explore how this compliance model can be replicated in Central America.
View the Colombia Habitat Banking Guidebook here, the US Mitigation Banking Guidebook here and the Biodiversity Net Gain Guidebook here.
Rimba Collective
Rimba Collective is a financial mechanism managed by Lestari Capital that supports companies to finance a portfolio of forest conservation and restoration projects across Southeast Asia. Rimba Collective members’ (Unilever, Nestle, PepsiCo and Proctor and Gamble) make payments that are proportionally linked to the amount of palm oil procured. In return for funding the projects, participating companies can claim against the environmental outcomes for their sustainability commitments and supply chain resilience.
Lestari Capital with support from R4N will replicate this model in the fashion sector to support fashion companies, textile producers and manufacturers.
View case study here.
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) – Colombia
Building on the lessons learned from the Bogotá PES implementation, R4N will support the design and implementation of a PES Program across the Central Region of Colombia. Additional capacity building for PES implementation as a compensation mechanism will be strengthened to create enabling conditions for scaling biodiversity-based market mechanisms in the region. Further opportunities will be identified for mobilizing public and/or private resources through other biodiversity-based market instruments, including the forest incentive certificate, green procurement, and tax benefits.
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) – Sri Lanka
R4N will support a PES Program in Sri Lanka which builds on an initial pilot developed in 2019. For this model, the hydropower sector will contribute to funding upstream watershed conservation efforts.
If you’re working to scale or replicate an innovative revenue model and are interested in joining the next cohort, we’d love to hear from you — reach out at [email protected].