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”.

Know your territory (KYT)

GBF developed the Know Your Territory (KYT) method to help responsible investors and entrepreneurs navigate territorial risks and opportunities. It assesses six dimensions, from project to landscape scale, combining geospatial, governance, and social data to turn complexity into actionable investment insight.

 

The KYT journey begins with the KYT-e digital platform, which applies the method at the municipal level. Covering more than 5,500 Brazilian municipalities, KYT-e uses over 70 indicators to calculate risk and opportunity. These insights help users identify areas with high potential for Nature-based Solutions and form the starting point for GBF’s tailored advisory and monitoring services.

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Services

Localized Analysis

Localized Analysis of Territorial Risk and Opportunity

We assess territorial risk and opportunity for individual projects by combining desk research, stakeholder maps, and field visits to produce a detailed risk register.

Territorial Risk Management Plans

We develop and help implement comprehensive risk management plans tailored to specific project needs, recommending strategies for de-risking in collaboration with our trusted partners.

Integrity Monitoring of Projects and Investment Portfolios

We support partners in forecasting, monitoring, and mitigating operational, financial, and reputational risks across project cycles and investment portfolios

Project Structuring and Preparation

We work with clients to design projects that effectively identify and manage risks, and help to build strategic partnerships.

Partner Matching

We connect like-minded entrepreneurs and investors to optimize collaboration and drive high-impact green enterprise.

Strategic Advisory

We help clients navigate Brazil’s complex institutional environment and work with numerous partners to overcome territorial barriers to progress, promoting policies and partnerships that create new opportunities for sustainable and inclusive green growth.

Partners

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Projects

Territorial Risk and Opportunity at a PlantVerd forest management site - The GBF applied the Know Your Territory (KYT) method to assess risks and opportunities in Vassununga State Park in São Paulo, managed by ‘Fundação Florestal’, identifying challenges and proposing possible solutions to improve ecological integrity and the viability of NbS projects like PlantVerd’s forest restoration and management.

Territorial Risk and Opportunity at a PlantVerd forest management site (2025)

Territorial Risk Manual - In collaboration with the Nature Investment Lab (NIL), the GBF has developed the Territorial Risk Manual, which offers both conceptual and practical guidelines for entrepreneurs and investors to navigate and manage territorial risks.

Territorial Risk Manual (2025)

Urban Security Risk Assessment for an energy distribution company - The GBF analyzed violence dynamics in four Brazilian cities and conducted an in-depth field study in a capital with severe operational restrictions to identify key insecurity factors driving non-technical losses for an energy distribution company.

Urban Security Risk Assessment for an energy distribution company (2024-2025)

Secretariat for the IDB Pan-Amazon 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 has been working with IDB Invest and other stakeholders on this project since 2024, including in shaping the recommendations of the Task Force.

Secretariat for the IDB Pan-Amazon Private Sector Task Force
(2024-2025)

Amazonia Bonds Issuance 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 the publication, Amazonia Bond Issuance Guidelines: Guidance for Labeled Bonds Dedicated to Financing the Economic, Environmental, and Social Development of the Amazonia Region, covering all 8 Amazonian countries.

Amazonia Bonds Issuance Guidelines
(2024-2025)

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)

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-)

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)

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