Alliances for green infrastructure: state of watershed investment 2016

This report benchmarks global transactions and makes a case for investment in green infrastructure. The business case for natural based solutions discusses watershed services including flood risk reduction, maintaining stream flows during droughts, stabilizing soil to prevent erosion and landslides, and the protection of soil productivity to ensure food security. 

The report captures the size, scale, and scope of market mechanisms for green infrastructure for water as the diversity and often local scale of such watershed investments sometimes obscures their true impact. The programs tracked in this report offer critical lessons for addressing water risk in a sustainable, cost-effective, landscape-scale manner.