Archive

  • Connecting private capital to natural capital

    30 August 2016

    A $300 billion natural capital funding gap can be met by creating products to suit institutional investors, argue Andrew Deutz and Marc Diaz

  • Water trading could be worth $13.4bn a year

    23 August 2016

    A $13.4 billion-a-year water trading market could be set up to help alleviate some of the supply shortage problems that afflict many parts of the globe, according to new research.

  • Financing solutions for storm water run-off

    15 June 2016

    Financing nature-based solutions, or green infrastructure, reduces the impact of storm water run-off in city streets around the world, argues Craig Holland

  • Industry and NGOs lobby airlines to use REDD+ carbon offsets

    04 April 2016

    Airlines have been urged to use emission reduction credits generated by forestry protection projects, in two new papers from the Climate Markets & Investment Association and a group of NGOs.

  • The world's first debt swap to protect oceans is 'model for conservation'

    15 March 2016

    Africa's Seychelles has undertaken the "first ever debt swap aimed at ocean conservation and climate mitigation".

  • $2bn committed to conservation in US

    09 March 2016

    Private companies were among a raft of organisations to announce more than $2 billion of investments to protect land, water and wildlife in the US.

  • Not all types of water projects should be considered green

    23 October 2015

    There is a huge need for infrastructure spending on water projects. But not all of these investments should be eligible for green bonds, argues Giulio Boccaletti

  • Voluntary carbon standards bodies VCS and CCB forge closer links

    24 November 2014

    Two of the leading standards bodies in the voluntary carbon market – the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CCB) standards – will, in future, be managed together.

  • 'Landmark' initiative to boost private finance for conservation

    29 April 2014

    JP Morgan Chase has thrown its weight behind a new 'landmark' initiative to unlock private finance for conservation.