Reports
The work that shapes how we understand conservation and the environment. Curated by WildInvest.
The WildInvest team reads widely. This section is where we share the reports, studies, and publications from across the conservation and sustainability world that we think matter.
UNEP · Published January 2026
Published by the United Nations Environment Programme, this is the definitive annual account of how the world is, and is not, investing in nature. The headline finding of the 2026 edition is stark: for every dollar spent protecting or restoring nature, thirty dollars are spent destroying it. In 2023 alone, $7.3 trillion flowed into nature-negative activities, while investment in nature-based solutions reached only $220 billion. The report introduces the Nature Transition X-Curve, a practical framework showing how governments and businesses can simultaneously phase out harmful subsidies and scale up high-integrity, nature-positive investments. Essential reading.
Download PDF → View on UNEP website →UNU-INWEH · Published January 2026
Published by the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference, this landmark report makes the case that the world has moved beyond a water crisis into something more serious and less reversible: water bankruptcy. Three-quarters of the global population lives in water-insecure countries. Around 4 billion people experience severe water scarcity for at least one month a year. More than half of the world's large lakes have declined since the early 1990s. The report calls not for crisis management but for bankruptcy management: stopping further damage, protecting what remains, and building governance systems that work with hydrological reality rather than against it.
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The 20th report of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition, prepared for the UN Committee on World Food Security, sets out how to build food systems that can withstand the cascading environmental, political and economic shocks of the present moment. Its central argument is that resilience must mean more than "bouncing back" to a fragile status quo: it calls for equitably transformative resilience, food systems that are diverse, equitable, and grounded in the values and knowledge of the communities most affected. The report makes the case for diversified production, the protection of Indigenous and traditional foodways, and putting human rights, and the rights of nature, at the centre of policy. It is a direct articulation of why local stewardship and community-led practice matter to global food security, the conviction at the heart of WildInvest's work.
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