The Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation includes some of the world’s largest and most influential financial institutions and develops “financial blueprints” for investments that generate conservation outcomes.

1. Coalition for Private
Investment
in Conservation (CPIC)

3. Purpose of the Coalition for Private
Investment in Conservation
• To deliver a material increase in private, return-
seeking investment in conservation, thereby
generating a substantial increase in natural
capital.
• By
• Removing the impediments to large-scale
investment in conservation, specifically lack of
“cash-flow awareness” in project developers, lack
of projects at scale, and inadequate risk-return
profile.
CPIC 3

4. 4
CPIC
Create investment
blueprints
Connect pipeline
providers
Convene projects
with investors
Share information
Standardise, replicate and aggregate

5. 5
Working Groups
 Forest Landscape Conservation and Restoration
led by EIB
 Coastal Resilience
led by TNC NatureVest and Environmental Defense Fund
 Sustainable Fisheries
co-led by Conservation International and Credit Suisse
 Sustainable Agricultural Intensification
co-led by Rainforest Alliance and the Global Environment Facility
 Green Infrastructure for Watershed Management
led by WWF
 Landscape Finance
led by IUCN-Netherlands and EcoAgriculture Partners

6. 6
CPIC components
Component Key Activities
1. CPIC Secretariat  Organization of SC and other meetings
 Correspondence on behalf of CPIC
 CPIC website maintenance
2. Blueprints
development for for
investable conservation
projects
 Blueprint development through (currently five) sectoral
Working Groups
 CPIC endorsement of blueprints
 Public dissemination of blueprints
3. Connecting
“pipeline providers” with
deal structuring support and
other resources
 Peer review by CPIC partners
 External expert review workshops on deal structuring
4. Convening
conservation project
delivery parties with public
and private investors
 Convene meetings of CPIC members and other investors
around blueprints and deal opportunities
 Present CPIC outputs at investment community gatherings
5. Information sharing
to foster the transition from
discrete projects to
investable products at scale
 Publication of CPIC blueprints and related documents on
business models and deal structures
 Commissioned studies on aggregation and scaling lessons
 CPIC website maintenance (costs covered under 1.)