 Conservation Finance
It has become increasingly clear to many land
based businesses that complete reliance on commodity products is not a good long term
strategy. This is due to many factors, most significant of which are:
- a pattern of increasing restriction on natural
resource extraction
- commodities comprising an ever smaller portion
of GDP
- international competition
At the same time, there is an explosion of
interest in other types of services provided by conserved ecosystems. The identification,
quantification and marketing of these ecosystem services is the focus of our Conservation
Finance practice.
Natural Strategies offers approaches for
alternative land valuation based on the measurable benefits provided to specific potential
buyers by the conservation of ecosystem services of various types. Specific services we
have included in this type of analysis include carbon sequestration, endangered species
habitat, unique or threatened habitat, water purification and flood protection.
Primary extractive industries are often
directly at odds with the environmental community. Increasingly, mitigation is required to
offset the impacts of development and operation in many sectors. Unfortunately, mitigation
is often based on political considerations every bit as much as on scientific
understanding.
Natural Strategies develops ecosystem
service-based metrics to develop resource extraction fee structures or 'resource rents'
that provide appropriate incentives for industry. We have been on the forefront of
innovative mechanism development in such areas as:
- Endangered species habitat bank and trade
systems
- Carbon sequestration trading
- Carbon neutral product development
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