A gateway to high-integrity
green enterprise and
sustainable development

Approach

The Green Bridge Facility (GBF) unlocks responsible investment to grow high-integrity green enterprise that benefits communities and safeguard tropical forests and biomes. 

 
The GBF can help structure projects, facilitate partnerships, and improve the business environment for climate- and nature-based solutions so that investments land, thrive, and benefit people and planet.
 

The GBF offers comprehensive risk analysis and opportunity mapping, and project structuring, development, and monitoring to help partners and stakeholders “Know Your Territory”.

Services

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Territorial Intelligence

GBF produces data-driven and field-based territorial assessments, stakeholder mapping, and de-risking strategies in collaboration with selected partners.

Project Structuring

GBF supports partners with projects identification, structuring and impact monitoring while tailoring operational strategies to public, private, and local community needs.

Portfolio Integrity Monitoring

GBF helps partners foresee, monitor and mitigate operational, financial, and reputational risks and ensures that investment portfolios meet the highest standards of integrity.

Project Identification and Matchmaking

GBF provides partners with the intelligence they need to identify, empower, and collaborate with other reputable entrepreneurs, investors, and local stakeholders thereby fostering ecosystems of green enterprise.

Strategic Advocacy

GBF supports entrepreneurs and investors in navigating complex national and sub-national regulatory environments and political contexts.

partners

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projects

Integrity risk mapping - The GBF is reviewing datasets and metrics to track integrity-related risks across all 8 countries of Amazonia. Specifically, GBF is working with the IDB Office of Institutional Integrity and the Amazon Forever Program to incorporate this data in the AmazoniaForever360+ platform to make it available for a wider user base in the region.

Integrity risk mapping (2024)

 Amazonia Bonds Investment Guidelines - The GBF is working with the IDB and the World Bank as a “knowledge partner” between 2024 and 2025. Most recently, the GBF supported the development of guidelines for the Amazonia Bonds to finance initiatives across all 8 Amazon countries.

Amazon Bonds guidelines
(2024-2025)

Assessing rule of law and local solutions in the Amazon - The GBF is mapping a wide range of security risks to climate- and nature-based solutions in Brazil and Colombia. The GBF is working with the Amazon Investor Coalition to identify challenges and solutions for these risks.

Assessing rule of law and local solutions in the Amazon
(2024-2025)

Amazonia Forever Private Sector Task Force - The GBF serves as the secretariat of a group committed to developing a future-looking approach to private sector investment across all 8 Amazon countries. The GBF is working with IDB Invest and other stakeholders on this project between 2024 and 2025.

Amazonia Forever Private Sector Task force
(2024-2025)

Territorial risk mapping for major energy companies in Brazil - The GBF is working with a number of companies to improve their situational awareness, map local stakeholders, and develop nature-based solutions.

Territorial risk mapping for major energy companies in Brazil (2024-)

Structuring restoration projects - The GBF is supporting the design and implementation of ecological and productive restoration initiatives involving carbon and biodiversity credits in the Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic Forest.

Structuring restoration projects (2024-)

Regenera Mata Atlântica - The GBF is supporting the development of an ecological corridor involving agroforestry, ecological restoration and biodiversity credits in the Atlantic Forest in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Core partners include the Antonelli Foundations for Biodiversity Research and Conservation, re.green, Belterra, Ecolibrium, and Bioverse. 

Regenera Mata Atlântica (2024-)

About US

The GBF is incubated by the Igarapé Institute. Established in 2011, the Brazil-based Institute is an independent think-and-do tank with a global mission to promote data-driven and evidence-based solutions to complex challenges. The Institute is women-led, with a team of 50 professionals in four countries and partnerships with more than 100 organizations, including a New York-based 501(c)(3).
Our team