Welcome to the June edition of the Virtus newsletter! This month, we’re asking the uncomfortable question: when impact cannot be proven, why would capital show up? In Our Take, we continue the IFNF Field Notes series with Part 5: Proof Before Impact Finance Scales. Drawing from five cohorts across the IFNF program, Sean shows why…
In conservation finance, “community engagement” has become almost reflexive. Projects mention it in their opening paragraphs, check the box in their logic models, and schedule a round of stakeholder meetings before implementation begins. Yet across the Innovative Finance for National Forests (IFNF) program, this language often masked a deeper problem: communities were being informed about decisions, not invited to shape them.
Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Written by: Gordian Knot Strategies & TransEnergy Global A few months ago, we announced our exciting new partnership with TransEnergy Global (TEG) to undertake one of the first structured market intelligence and price discovery analyses for energy transition credits (ETCs). Our goal was…
Listen to this episode on any of the streaming platforms below. “Back in those days in 2014, we were really not asking any questions about quality. We were assuming that a ton is a ton. Even the question of is a ton a ton was not in the mind space at that time. It was…
Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Written by: Sean Penrith This is the fourth in a five-part Innovative Finance for National Forests (IFNF) Insights Brief Series produced by Gordian Knot Strategies, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, and the U.S. Forest Service. Each brief distills a core lesson…
