Landscape Finance

This course is a part of Sustainable & Inclusive Landscapes, a 4-course Professional Certificate series from edX.

Landscape approaches call for innovative interventions that cut across sectors and scales. Public and private funders are ready to invest but there are gaps to bridge. Integrated landscape investments, which enable bankable projects to be realized, need to be built on shared understandings and motivations between landscape inhabitants and leaders and the world of finance.

Are you from the finance world and want to think from a landscape perspective? Or, are you working in or for a landscape and want to mobilise resources? Join this course and bridge the gap between finance and landscapes. Gain critical insights and develop the skills to capitalize on investors motivation to invest and the need for innovative financing in landscapes

Financial experts will share their experiences and get you ready to join the global momentum on financing landscape initiatives. You'll learn about multi-sector, multi-stakeholder investments that manage and affect multiple landscape functions.

Join this MOOC now and jump right into breaking down complex language and concepts in a light and highly interactive manner. Learn about plural values and how they can be achieved with the right investment. Learn too how to stimulate, secure and coordinate the execution of that investment. During this course, you'll also learn to develop integrated investment strategies to support landscape leaders and investors in their related efforts.

Sustainable and Inclusive Landscapes

This course is also part of the Sustainable and Inclusive Landscapes Professional Certificate Programme. Following the complete programme lets you harness the power of place and advance your career as a landscape leader. The programme consists of the following courses, which can be taken in any given order:

Landscape Finance: Investing in Innovation for Sustainable Landscapes (this course)

Landscape Leadership: Catalyse Sustainable Development in Landscapes

Landscape Governance: Collaborating Across Sectors and Scales

Climate Action in Biodiverse Landscapes

What you'll learn

• Learn how integrated landscape investments can add financial value
• What sources of capital can be mobilised and blended for landscape investments
• Which financial mechanisms can support landscape investments
• The challenges and pathways to bankable projects
• Innovations for coordinating and facilitating landscape investments