Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd.

2009: Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. – part of Japan’s second-largest securities firm – aided CI’s work through its support of enterprise development. Daiwa Securities Co Ltd $1 million investment helped to fund CI’s Verde Ventures investment fund in its support of the World Heritage Local Ecological Entrepreneurship Program along with the United Nations Foundation and the United Nations Development Program / Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme. The investment helped protect seven of the world’s most precious and endangered natural wonders by offering grants and affordable loans for local entrepreneurs around World Heritage sites in Africa, Asia and Latin America.