Conservation Finance for Socio-environmental Impact
The connection between capital, biodiversity and climate.
The future needs action. Now.
Nature conservation requires robust, innovative, and long-term financial solutions.
Sitawi supports companies, investors, foundations, organizations, and public bodies in designing and structuring financial mechanisms for conservation, connecting capital to projects that promote biodiversity protection, climate adaptation, and sustainable socio-environmental development.
Discover how your organization can strategically amplify its positive impact.
The challenge of financing environmental conservation.
Many organizations want to generate a positive environmental impact, but find it difficult to manage and direct resources. At the same time, conservation projects face challenges in structuring their financial, governance, operational, and strategic mechanisms, as well as ensuring efficient resource management.
Strengthening these structures helps demonstrate the organizations' ability to manage resources transparently and efficiently, which can consequently facilitate their access to future funding opportunities.
Sitawi connects these two ends through the design and structuring of financial mechanisms that ensure transparency and impact measurement.
How Sitawi develops conservation finance solutions
Our role involves:
Studies and diagnoses
Studies and diagnoses that support the development of solutions for nature conservation and the generation of positive environmental impact.
Innovative financial mechanisms
Structuring innovative financial mechanisms for conservation and climate.
Territorial development
Sustainable development of territories and communities through territorial programs focused on governance, sustainable production chains, socio-environmental safeguards, forest conservation and restoration, and territorial financial mechanisms.
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Benefits for companies, investors, organizations, and public bodies.
Alignment with ESG strategies and climate commitments
Efficient, transparent, and traceable management of resources.
Risk reduction through sound legal and financial structures.
Enhancing the positive impacts on the territories
Governance structures that enable collaboration between different actors.
Decision-making based on intelligence and data.
Greater ease in raising funds, based on demonstrating solid and efficient management.
Sitawi develops strategic solutions to structure and manage resources for conservation, contributing to the strengthening of organizations, ecosystems, and territories in Brazil.
Conservation and climate finance in practice
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Impact results
+R$470 million mobilized for positive socio-environmental impact
+ 5 million hectares preserved
65 riverine communities supported
Multisectoral partnerships
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How to create solutions to unlock resources for conservation with Sitawi
What is conservation finance?
Conservation finance refers to financial mechanisms that direct resources toward the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of nature. It combines different sources of capital (public, private, and philanthropic) and utilizes structures such as funds, blended finance and innovative financial instruments to enable large-scale conservation projects, with governance, transparency, and environmental impact measurement.
Who can hire Sitawi to structure financial mechanisms for conservation?
Sitawi works with companies, foundations, investors, philanthropic organizations, governments, and civil society organizations that wish to structure or finance conservation and climate projects in a safe and efficient manner. It also works with implementing organizations that need support to access resources and strengthen their financial and governance structures.
How can companies, investors, and public bodies invest in conservation in Brazil?
Sitawi supports companies, investors, organizations, and public bodies in structuring and managing financial mechanisms for conservation, tailored to the objectives, resources, and contexts of each initiative. This includes conservation funds, revolving and community funds, financing facilities, PES mechanisms and economic and financial incentives, impact bonds, biodiversity credits, and other customized solutions. Our work combines financial architecture, governance, and efficient resource management, creating robust mechanisms to enable and strengthen conservation initiatives in different territories.
What is a territorial program and how does it work?
A territorial program articulates, within the same region, local governance, bioeconomy, territorial protection, and financial mechanisms. Instead of funding isolated initiatives, it supports projects led by the territory's own organizations, with fundraising and resource management structured to last for more than one project cycle.
The Middle Juruá Territory Program (PTMJ), in Amazonas, has been operating in this way since 2017. Sitawi handles the fundraising and management of financial contributions and participates in the design and implementation in partnership with grassroots organizations and the local authority. The program supports initiatives in five areas: education, energy and communication, governance, territorial protection, and bioeconomy, from pirarucu management to biocosmetics produced by agro-extractive women.
When is a study or diagnosis the first step in a conservation project?
A study or diagnosis comes first when it's still unclear which financial instrument solves the problem, how much it costs to maintain the activity you want to preserve, or who needs to be in governance. It reduces the risk of structuring a mechanism that won't be sustainable later.
In its study on the value of socio-biodiversity products, Sitawi applied the True Cost Accounting approach to the pirarucu supply chain to quantify the difference between the price paid and the fair price, incorporating social and environmental costs that the market does not compensate for.