The experts provide inputs on both the supply side of the GDI focusing on biodiversity-relevant certification requirements for land management and the demand side of the GDI focusing on financing opportunities from business and the market.
Germany has become a leader in solar and wind through public-private financing mechanisms to finance energy innovation as well as strong demand side policies, such as the solar feed-in tariff policy adopted by the government in 1991.
Goldman Sachs has a long history in lower Manhattan, from Marcus Goldman providing short-term financing to the nineteenth-century rag trade on the Lower East Side to signs carried around the present occupation of a park at Broadway and Cedar Street.
On the demand side, the Meeting explored three dimensions of securing additional financing for biodiversity through the GDI approach: using GDI certification within corporate biodiversity strategies and actions, bringing GDI-certified land management projects to market, and exploring the role of public funding for scaling up the GDI approach.
Unfortunately, the economic crisis of 2008-2009 essentially nixed plans to build the stadium on the Missouri side of the Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area using tax increment financing.