Together with South Africa’s Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), NatureFinance helped shape and deliver the finance agenda at the 2nd G20 Initiative on Bioeconomy (GIB) meeting (25–29 May 2025).
Alongside key knowledge partners from finance, policy, and science we tackled one critical question: How can we unlock the capital needed to build resilient, inclusive, and innovative sustainable bioeconomies?
What we focused on:
1️⃣ Pipeline Development – Closing the financing gap for high-potential projects.
2️⃣ Policy & Regulation – Creating the right frameworks to foster innovation and de-risk investments.
3️⃣ Capacity Building – Addressing data, skills, and system-level blind spots.
4️⃣ International Cooperation – Aligning efforts and innovating together for impact at scale.
5️⃣ Trade & Cooperation: A $2.04 trillion opportunity for advancing the bioeconomy—if frameworks align.
A major highlight: the launch of the African Bioeconomy Finance Hub—a bold new regional platform to catalyse investment, support local value chains, and align bioeconomy finance with the G20 High-Level Principles (especially #7 and #9).
Related resources
Mapping finance solutions and instruments across the three bioeconomy types
Financing a Sustainable Global Bioeconomy
