The Future of Financing Nature

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Written By Ryan McGrath

Deborah Lehr as featured on The Paulson Institute

 

Protecting and restoring nature is one of the defining economic and environmental challenges of our time. With more than half the world’s GDP moderately or highly dependent on nature and biodiversity, the urgency to safeguard our planet’s health is clear.

In fall 2025, the Paulson Institute released an interim update to our landmark 2020 Financing Nature report, revealing a troubling reality: The global biodiversity financing gap has grown from $711 billion in 2020 to $942 billion annually today.

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