Eco-nomics: Putting a value on nature is also key to saving it | Green Pulse podcast

Coral reef bonds, biodiversity credits and schemes that enable national debt to be forgiven in exchange for conservation efforts.

These are just some of the financial instruments that have been in the news recently, as the world races to find the funds needed to prevent nature from falling into further decline. But when did the financial sector start paying attention to nature, and can their involvement in conservation truly help to protect and restore natural ecosystems? 

Financing for nature is expected to be a key topic of discussion at the COP16 biodiversity conference in Colombia in October. In the lead-up to the United Nations summit, Green Pulse co-hosts Audrey Tan and David Fogarty discuss the role of the financial sector in nature conservation with Ms Hoon Ling Min, investment director at decarbonisation investment platform GenZero.

This episode was first published on Sep 1, 2024.

Highlights of conversation (click/tap above):
00:00 Intro
4:05 Who are the buyers of nature-linked investment products? 
9:14 What drives the development of new types of nature-related financial products? 
15:43 In the absence of a measurable metric for nature, how can biodiversity benefits be quantified? 
17:30 How important is the role of the private sector in protecting nature?

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she's a little bit too out of depth, missing the substance of Audrey's question again and again and going to her immediate heuristics of what she had done recently and completely forgetting the question's ask. every single answer about how to financially/economically model biodiversity value kept going back to emissions sequestration again and again. or just a throwaway organisation's acronym or standard.

the most day 1 understanding of NBS talks about the other BEES they provide and Hoon is just absolutely clueless lol, and tourism is such a shallow example to keep quoting. from water quality regulation to soil health and long-term land arability. bro, in the industry so long cant do a simple chatgpt even once ah? this is embarrassing lmao.