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Poorer rural people are not excluded from the carbon credit scheme because of their lack of formal land rights, but there are also risks to the approach, which gives state officials power to define what activities are incentivized.

“Generation Blue’s vision of a regenerative economy aligns ideally with a core use for Radpay’s patent-pending payment token,” said Radpay’s co-founder and CEO, Dana Love, PhD. “Our novel method for tokenized rewards empowers anyone to invest in the protection of vital ecosystems through funding Natural Capital projects such as the Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park mangrove restoration project in Myanmar.”

The public and private sectors can incentivize sustainable land use and forest conservation. While still only one part of the solution, there are encouraging signs of new efforts to finance sustainable agribusiness.

A detailed look at how the Rhino Impact Bond, the first financial instrument linked to the conservation of rhinos, works.

Brazil is better positioned than any other nation to lead the pathway to the low-carbon economy. Its 7+ billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions that have been avoided through Brazil’s enormous and successful effort to slow Amazon deforestation are now poised to be monetized.

Recently demand for offsets has risen fast, and could rise faster if federal or state climate legislation created compliance markets for them. Voluntary carbon markets are relatively small, and voluntary carbon offsets cut less than two tenths of a percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions — but in a larger compliance market, where offsets help meet climate policy requirements, they could cut orders of magnitude more.

"The Trump Administration says it 'improved' the Endangered Species Act this week by creating a new rule that incorporates the cost of lost profits from logging, mining, and other operations into the process of identifying endangered species. The rule has been rightly slammed for reducing environmental protections and excluding climate impacts from habitat decisions, but it should also be slammed for its impact on rural American workers."

WRI’s Green-Gray Assessment method allows stakeholders to value the costs and benefits of integrating green or natural infrastructure into water supply systems to improve performance.

Revolving Water Fund Pilots PFS Approach for Water Quality Improvements

The traditional water fund model, which has been used around the world, pools philanthropic and donor capital to support upstream restorations. The Revolving Water Fund innovates on this model by also aiming to quantify the pollution reductions from these restoration activities, then packaging and selling the reductions to municipalities in the watershed seeking to cost-effectively comply with water quality standards enforced under the Clean Water Act.

The initiative includes a facility to offer green bonds to help finance low-interest credit lines to Brazilian farmers.

Conservation Finance Network

Amazon REDD+ Scheme Side-Steps Land Rights to Reward Small Forest Producers

Radpay and Generation Blue Partner to Build an Earth Positive Payment Network Which Protects and Regenerates Keystone Ecosystems with Every Transaction

The Amazon Is Reaching a Dangerous Tipping Point. We Need to Scale Solutions Now If We Have Any Chance of Saving It

Rhino Bonds: Can Big Finance Really Save Big Beasts?

Amazon Fires: What We Know and What We Can Do

Green Old Deal: Why Carbon Offsets Matter More than Ever

Will Trump’s Endangered Species Alteration Hurt the $25 Billion Restoration Economy?

Green-Gray Assessment: How to Assess the Costs and Benefits of Green Infrastructure for Water Supply Systems

Revolving Water Fund Pilots PFS Approach for Water Quality Improvements

UN Backs Green Bonds for Sustainable Soy Production in Brazil