We all know the iconic picture of two hands holding some soil with a young tree sapling sprouting from it. Is that what we need to do today? In many developing countries it is common to refer to forests as timber. That was the case in the West too. The…

Nature is one of the few things that sometimes seems to escape the traditional ownership structures of capitalism. That may seem charming but the reality is that nature suffers immensely from its informal status. Land plus Terrestrial nature typically comes as an area of land plus wildlife that grows and…

Bringing primary forests to market is both a tremendous financial opportunity and the only way to protect them. It’s the greenest asset out there. Fast growing demand for a fixed supply. Global competition for land When today a tropical forest is up for sale, people speak of forest ‘land’. This…

Our climate crisis unfolds into three large sub crises. The carbon & GHG problem is well covered. Equally well covered is that our oceans are suffering from overfishing and pollution. What we hear the least about is the number one biggest crisis of the three. That is biodiversity loss. Climate…

Nature suffers immensely from its low price point. The cheap acquisition of forest land makes the conversion into timber farms and agro business a profitable endeavor. With land titles too big to handle and asset uncertainties at both legal and physical levels, there are few candidates to outbid those companies…

The offset market today is still a 1.0 version of something we urgently need a 2.0 of. One problem is the narrow focus on carbon. The other is the strong incentive to replant instead of conserve, whereas the planetary win is by far in conservation first. …

Imagine you go fishing for a living. Every year more fishing boats join you at sea and every year the methods used are more professional. This leads to overfishing. What you observe is at first a slow drop in the amount of fish available. You need to work harder, buy…

When Vincent Van Gogh was still alive, he earned so little from his paintings that he sometimes overpainted his own work instead of buying new blank canvases. Yet today, we pay millions for a Van Gogh and we dearly protect his work in expensive buildings. …