Welcome to the April edition of the Virtus newsletter! This month, we go deep on one of conservation finance’s most underestimated failure points – participation. Not the checkbox kind, but the kind that actually changes outcomes. In Our Take, Sean Penrith continues the IFNF Field Notes series with Part 3: The Participation Paradox, examining why…
Listen to this episode on any of the streaming platforms below. “If we build nature-based carbon markets with good rules and norms for equitable finance – making sure that everybody benefits from the money that flows through – then this is an opportunity for billions of dollars to flow to the communities and countries that…
Written by: Kerry Morrison “Where we choose to direct investment is where the ship sails. The question is whether we will choose headwinds or current.” In a season of geopolitical fracture and ecological emergency, the most radical act may be the most practical one: choosing to invest where regeneration and cooperation are not side effects…
Welcome to the March edition of the Virtus newsletter! This month, we zoom out and then zoom all the way back in. In Our Take, Sean Penrith kicks off a seven-part field notes series on the Innovative Finance for National Forests program, unpacking why nearly half of conservation finance projects fail before they start, and…
Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Written by: Gordian Knot Strategies This is the first 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…
