A key focus for Seneca is financial innovation to enable investment in conservation projects beyond the capital structure of a commercially viable project. We support the critical task of defining both financial and non-financial objectives and how to fund them. Choosing the appropriate financial mechanism in coordination with the objectives of funders and other key stakeholders is imperative.

An appropriately structured project or facility can incorporate equity or debt capital and may also blend in grant or concessionary funding, guarantees, and insurance as risk capital to catalyze return-seeking investments. Such mechanisms can provide the impetus for profitable conservation projects.

While there tends to be less available funding for commercially viable nature and climate-positive projects compared to other mainstream projects, Seneca aims to address this issue through tailored and innovative financing mechanisms. These include blended finance, project finance for permanence, payments for ecosystem services, debt-for-nature swaps, insurance solutions, carbon credits/offsets, biodiversity offsets, outcome-based financing, green/blue bonds, and sustainability-linked bonds/loans.