Conservation

Photo: Colossal Biosciences

Impact Tech | Amy Cortese

Wild and woolly: Colossal Biosciences raises $200 million to revive the mammoth and other lost species

Dealflow | Lucy Ngige

WRI backs Barka Fund to invest in locally-led land restoration in Africa

Conservation | Jessica Pothering

Ecuador makes $1.5 billion debt swap to free up capital for nature preservation

Climate Finance | Jessica Pothering

Five funds split $2 million for solutions to tough challenges in climate finance

Conservation | Jessica Pothering

Bahamas swaps ‘debt for nature’ to invest $124 million in marine conservation

Dealflow | Amy Cortese

Blue Forest launches ‘watershed resilience bond’ to finance conservation projects on private lands

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Climate Finance | Roodgally Senatus

Climate Asset Management raises more than $1 billion for nature-based real assets

Credit: SistemaBio

The Liist | Jessica Pothering

The Liist, September 2024: There are many ways to put a gender lens on climate investing

Conservation | Jessica Pothering

Brazilian carbon developer Systemica acquires forest manager Arapuá

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

World Bank-issued Amazon reforestation-linked outcome bond attracts $225 million

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Conservation | Jessica Pothering

Building the Amazon’s bioeconomy by investing locally, at scale

Oceans | Roodgally Senatus

Global Fund for Coral Reefs blends opportunity and urgency to finance ocean resilience (Q&A)

Latin America | Roodgally Senatus

BTG Pactual’s Timberland Investment Group secures $1.2 billion for timberland in Latin America

Climate Finance | Jessica Pothering

Investors re-up in carbon creditor South Pole after a turbulent year

Climate Finance | Jessica Pothering

Astarte Capital and Silvipar raise $325 million for sustainable forestry in Paraguay

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Latin America | Jessica Pothering

Sustainable tourism in the Galapagos Islands gets a boost with Quasar Expeditions’ $14 million loan

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Climate Finance | Louie Woodall

Can the UK’s market for trading nature credits deliver ‘biodiversity net gain’?

Climate Finance | Jessica Pothering

The Russell Family Foundation offers up $3.5 million for sustainable food, energy and infrastructure

Catalytic Capital | Jessica Pothering

Investors earn a return on a ‘forest resilience bond’ in California

Oceans | Roodgally Senatus

Ocean-based startups ride a wave of funds seeking opportunities in the blue economy

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Vibrant Planet scores $15 million for wildfire-risk mitigation and forest resilience

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Environment Bank offers biodiversity credits to catalyze corporate investment in nature restoration

Mangrove forest restoration on Pate Island, Kenya | Photo credit: Thomson Reuters Foundation / Dominic Kirui

Climate Finance | Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Nature-based solutions may be the key to meeting Paris climate goals

Photo by Bezos Earth Fund.

Conservation | Roodgally Senatus

Bezos Earth Fund deploys $22.8 million for locally-led landscape restoration in Africa

Regeneration | Roodgally Senatus

Deal spotlight: Reforesting the Amazon

Climate Finance | Lucy Ngige

African leaders want a bigger slice of a bigger market for voluntary carbon credits

Conservation | Amy Cortese

Revived South American alliance takes steps to protect Amazon forests and communities

Mangrove forest in Sindh, Pakistan

Conservation | Marcello Rossi

Revival of Pakistan’s mangroves provides a blueprint for global restoration

Climate Finance | Jessica Pothering

Packard and Ford foundations back Nusantara Fund to bolster climate resilience for Indonesia’s Indigenous communities

Photo credit: Flash Forest

Canada | Jessica Pothering

Canada’s Flash Forest secures $11.4 million to speed forest replanting after wildfires

Dealflow | David Bank

MBA and other students rise to the sustainable investing challenge

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

AGRI3 Fund secures $13.5 million to catalyze capital for sustainable agriculture and forestry

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Conservation | Laurie Wayburn

Privately owned working forests are a climate asset

Impact Voices | Erin Axelrod

Tree planting has gotten a bad name. Here’s how to restore its effectiveness as a climate solution.

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Climate Finance | Jessica Pothering

Aspiration and One Small Planet back conservation venture RenewWest

Emerging and Growth Markets | Jessica Pothering

Latin America’s impact entrepreneurs find opportunities in nature-based solutions and smarter services for low-income consumers

Climate Finance | Jessica Pothering

Sand to Green secures $1 million to regenerate Morocco’s desert

Climate Finance | Jessica Pothering

Obvious Ventures backs Senken to finance reforestation through ‘carbon forwards’

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Climate Finance | Amy Cortese

Voluntary carbon markets face a reckoning over credit quality and environmental impact

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Low-carbon transition | Roodgally Senatus

ImpactAlpha Deal Spotlight: Nature-based biotech

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Anew Climate commits $640 million to Terra Global for nature-based carbon offsets in emerging markets

Conservation | Jessica Pothering

Conservation fund Terratai launches to invest in biodiversity startups in Indonesia

Photo by Maitheli Maitra on Unsplash

Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Varaha scores $4 million to help smallholder farmers create nature-based carbon credits

Climate Finance | Jessica Pothering

Deal spotlight: Empowering – and paying – communities to protect nature

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Emerging and Growth Markets | Jessica Pothering

Katapult’s Africa accelerator zeros in on food security