Biodiversity Enterprise Funds are highly flexible investment funds that provide debt or equity to companies that sustainably use or protect biodiversity, such as sustainable agriculture and forestry, non-timber forest products, and ecotourism. Funds are structured to cover the typically unmet capital needs (debt, equity, quasi-equity) of a wide range of biodiversity-related businesses. They are for-profit investment vehicles that provide financial returns to their investors. 

Type of equity financing that responds to the need of companies that due to size, assets or stage of development cannot seek capital from more traditional sources, such as public markets and banks. Venture capitalists play a more active role in the companies they invest in, mostly small, early-stage and high-growth companies. They are also ready to face higher risks on a longer investment horizon. Venture capital strategies are suitable for higher-risk developing countries' markets or for targeting business opportunities in new and innovative niches and products. Venture capital has been relatively limited to date for biodiversity businesses. 

Legal vehicle (trust) that supports biodiversity by mobilizing, blending, and overseeing the allocation of financial assets at the regional level. Examples of regional environmental funds are found in the Caribbean, Central Africa and Pacific regions.

Legal vehicle (trust) that supports environmental priorities by mobilizing, blending, and overseeing the allocation of financial assets for generated from revenues or fees associated with non-renewable and renewable natural resources managed as a trust fund. 

Environmental Trust Funds established for the financing and support of individual protected areas, regional groupings of protected areas or entire protected areas systems.  Funds can be local, national, or include several countries. 

Legal vehicle (trust) that supports environmental priorities by mobilizing, blending, and overseeing the allocation of financial assets for combatting air pollution.

Legal vehicle (trust) that supports climate priorities by mobilizing, blending, and overseeing the allocation of financial assets. It is a country-driven solution that  should feature a clear focus, a rigorous project approval and implementation process, solid monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and strict control over asset/financial management and investment. The term encompasses carbon sequestration funds. Climate and biodiversity are strongly related with well known ecosystem-based solutions for both mitigating and adapting to climate change.

Legal vehicle (trust) that supports biodiversity by mobilizing, blending, and overseeing the allocation of financial assets. It is a country-driven solution that  should feature a clear focus, a rigorous project approval and implementation process, solid monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and strict control over asset/financial management and investment. The term encompasses conservation funds, carbon funds and other environmental funds. They can be regional, national or sub-national. Common type of capital structures include endowment, sinking and revolving funds.

Broadly defined as the set of financial instruments that support foreign trade transactions, trade finance includes letters of credit, factoring, export credit and insurance. The provision of trade finance support is often limited in developing countries due to the lack of service providers or affordable products. Trade finance is particularly needed to support bio trade, i.e. activities related of collection, production, transformation, and commercialization of goods and services derived from native biodiversity under the criteria of environmental, social and economic sustainability.

Any penalty or fine charged for illegal hunting and collecting. Well controlled hunting and collecting of valuable species can reduce uncontrolled losses (i.e. through poaching) and generate revenue for management of natural areas if adequately priced, managed and enforced. Overexploitation can lead to species endangerment or extinction and broader ecosystem damage. revenues from penalties and fines can be allocated to habitat and biodiversity protection.