Investments Viable.
To reduce emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases on a pathway that does not overshoot and keeps global average temperature increase to below the 1.5 °C target stipulated by the Paris Agreement, it shall be necessary to rely on nature-based solutions with atmospheric removals.
David Skole, Professor
Michigan State University
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse. There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.
Herman Daly
Ecological Economist
Nature is an asset that, when properly managed, delivers sustainable financial returns.
Swapan Mehra, Founder and CEO
Iora Ecological Solutions
Nature Investments: An Overview
Drivers and Needs
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have emerged as a key driver of action on climate change mitigation and adaptation worldwide. Investing in NbS yields the highest number of benefits at the lowest cost not only for climate, but also for disaster risk reduction and biodiversity protection.
Instruments and Approaches
The nature investment market has matured to offer a range of financial mechanisms, markets and instruments that enable investors to derive positive cash flows, while ensuring many environmental and social co-benefits.
Nature Investments:
A Case Study
MegCare Project,
Meghalaya, India
Rabobank’s Acorn program is promoting sustainable agroforestry
in Eastern Himalayas in collaboration with Meghalaya Basin
Development Authority (MBDA) and Iora Ecological Solutions.
Accurate Measurements for Project Integrity
Science-led mapping and measurement are key to robust design and implementation of nature projects, ensuring long-term financial results. Assessing risk, projecting returns and verifying outcomes of such projects requires robust climate and ecological science.
Satellite Data Helps
Nature Measurements
Viable investments must be rooted in robust evidence. Building such evidence requires extensive landscape and ground level data gathering and analysis, supported by geospatial modelling, field-level research and measurements.
Understanding Measurements:
Technology and Processes
High accuracy data collection is key to the success of a nature investment. From satellite imagery to soil carbon data and machine learning, an investor can base their investments on various layers of data.
An Initiative by:
To reduce emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases on a pathway that does not overshoot and keeps global average temperature increase to below the 1.5 °C target stipulated by the Paris Agreement, it shall be necessary to rely on nature-based solutions with atmospheric removals.
David Skole, Professor
Michigan State University
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse. There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.
Herman Daly
Ecological Economist
Nature is an asset that, when properly managed, delivers sustainable financial returns.
Swapan Mehra, Founder and CEO
Iora Ecological Solutions
Nature Investments: An Overview
Drivers and Needs
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have emerged as a key driver of action on climate change mitigation and adaptation worldwide. Investing in NbS yields the highest number of benefits at the lowest cost not only for climate, but also for disaster risk reduction and biodiversity protection.
Instruments and Approaches
The nature investment market has matured to offer a range of financial mechanisms, markets and instruments that enable investors to derive positive cash flows, while ensuring many environmental and social co-benefits.
Nature Investments:
A Case Study
MegCare Project,
Meghalaya, India
Rabobank’s Acorn program is promoting sustainable agroforestry
in Eastern Himalayas in collaboration with Meghalaya Basin
Development Authority (MBDA) and Iora Ecological Solutions.
Nature Investments:
A Case Study
MegCare Project,
Meghalaya, India
Rabobank’s Acorn program is promoting sustainable agroforestry
in Eastern Himalayas in collaboration with Meghalaya Basin
Development Authority (MBDA) and Iora Ecological Solutions.
Accurate Measurements for Project Integrity
Science-led mapping and measurement are key to robust design and implementation of nature projects, ensuring long-term financial results. Assessing risk, projecting returns and verifying outcomes of such projects requires robust climate and ecological science.
Satellite Data Helps
Nature Measurements
Viable investments must be rooted in robust evidence. Building such evidence requires extensive landscape and ground level data gathering and analysis, supported by geospatial modelling, field-level research and measurements.
Understanding Measurements:
Technology and Processes
High accuracy data collection is key to the success of a nature investment. From satellite imagery to soil carbon data and machine learning, an investor can base their investments on various layers of data.
An Initiative by:
