Helen AveryOct 17, 20192 minWorld Bank meetings tackle financing nature On October 17 during the IMF annual Fall meetings, the World Bank hosted a session on Investing in Nature. While banking heads and invest...
Helen AveryOct 10, 20192 minPatagonia's Project Finance for PermanenceIn March 2017 on the grasslands of the new Patagonia National Park in Chile, Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, the president of Tompkins Conser...
Helen AveryOct 10, 20191 minHazelnut Investments in BhutanIn 2008, Teresa Law and Daniel Spitzer founded Mountain Hazelnuts in Bhutan, working with mountain communities with limited income genera...
Helen AveryOct 9, 20191 minFarm Loans that Prevent DeforestationIn August last year Banco Santander Brasil, the Nature Conservancy (TNC) and commodities trader, Bunge, announced the development of a pr...
Helen AveryOct 9, 20191 minThe Amazon's Sustainable Cattle Bond“If you look at the corporate green bond market, more than half of issuance is from utilities. Agriculture has been largely absent in the...
Helen AveryOct 9, 20191 minTech Investments for PoachingIn Tanzania, a drone emerges from a bush, startling an elephant poised to roam into a farmer’s crops. The sound, similar to a swarm of be...
Helen AveryOct 9, 20191 minBanks Fight Illegal Wildlife TraffickingBanks help stop major illegal wildlife trafficking ring. In 2018 the Duke of Cambridge convened the United for Wildlife Financial Taskfor...
Helen AveryOct 9, 20192 minRhino bonds and Africa's Conservation InvestmentsThe rhino impact bond has sparked excitement that financial tools can play a role in helping Africa conserve its wildlife. As the contine...
Helen AveryOct 8, 20192 minBlue Carbon Meets BlockchainUniquely able to breathe and survive in brackish water, filtering out salt through their leaves, and able to migrate when necessary, mang...
Helen AveryOct 8, 20192 minTrees For Life Looks Beyond PhilanthropyWhen Euromoney pulls into the Dundreggan Conservation Estate, where Trees for Life’s main operations are based, in the Highlands of Scotl...
Helen AveryOct 8, 20192 minIndia Moves to Zero Budget Natural FarmingIn Andhra Pradesh state in India there has been a natural farming revolution. Started by Rythu Sadhi- kara Samstha (a not-for-profit orga...
Helen AveryOct 8, 20191 minAn Organic Cotton Investment BlueprintSome 25% of all chemical insecticides produced in the world are used in cotton farming. “There are ice cores in the Antarctic that have b...
Helen AveryOct 8, 20192 minFinancing the shift to Regenerative AgricultureTo reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean up water supplies, prevent the loss of biodiversity, mitigate fire and flood risk and meet the ...
Helen AveryOct 8, 20191 minWe Need More Carbon OffsetsCarbon markets, particularly offsets, are shaking off their past and becoming a vital instrument for reaching CO2 reduction goals, protec...
Helen AveryOct 8, 20192 minPricing in Natural Capital: An Urgent NeedClimate is no longer the only risk in town. Thanks to a loud call from the scientific community, nature has finally been given a seat at ...
Helen AveryMay 28, 20192 minInterview: Investing in Sustainable AquacultureFollowing the release of the TNC’s and Encourage Capital’s report on the opportunities within sustainable aquaculture, I caught up with M...
Helen AveryMay 9, 20191 minNFWF Launches Tools for Investments in Coastal Resiliency The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced in May the release of Coastal Resilience Assessments and the creation of a new...
Helen AveryMay 7, 20191 minSustainable Aquaculture - an impact investment opportunity.The Nature Conservancy and Encourage Capital released their detailed report on the sustainable aquaculture industry today. The report, Tow...
Helen AveryMay 6, 20191 minUPDATED: IPBES nature crisis report releasedToday the Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, or IPBES, issued a summary of its report on the state of natur...
Helen AveryMay 5, 20191 minNew Forests' Sustainability Report and Impact InvestmentSustainable timberland investment manager, New Forests, released its 2018 Sustainability Report at the end of April. The fund manager now...