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.
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.
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.