How Blended Finance Can Help Global Fisheries Recover

There is power in returns, writes Tim Fitzgerald in Forbes. At its core, that’s the notion behind blended finance, or the strategic use of philanthropic funds and development finance to mobilize private capital flows to emerging and frontier markets. Blended finance takes advantage of different types of capital, and their varied structures, risk preferences and desired investment outcomes, to grow the overall size of the pie dedicated towards critical conservation challenges. A new report just released by Environmental Defense Fund’s Fishery Solutions Center and Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions asserts that blended capital approaches offer a new opportunity to fill the all-too-common finance gap that has hampered the recovery of many of the world’s fisheries.