Webinar 1: Introduction to Environmental Financing, Principles and Approaches and Terminologies - Meeting Report. Spark Webinar Series: Understanding Environmental Finance

This is a webinar report for the SPARK Webinar series titled Introduction to Environmental Financing, Principles and Approaches and Terminologies. The webinar emphasized the critical need to address the intersection of biodiversity conservation, restoration, protection, and environmental finance. The webinar also highlighted the importance of enhancing environmentally sensitive policies at the country level and among donor communities and realigning domestic expenditure, engaging the international and private sector finance increasing and tailoring finance to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and, reforming global financial architecture is an impetus step in addressing existing and predicted environmental concerns.