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No. 9 — Capital Arrives Link by Link
Five announcements placed capital at five different points in the chain from project preparation to verified outcome, and each disclosed only its own link.
Hubert Jenny
Climate and nature finance practitioner. Two decades of operational experience across international financial institutions, including 14 years in the private sector and 4 years in sanitation research. Lectures at Princeton and Sciences Po.
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No. 8 - Record Commitments, Unfinished Delivery
Multilateral development banks reported record 2025 climate-finance commitments, yet developments in the Pacific and Vietnam underscored why access, financing terms, and delivery governance still determine whether capital translates into resilience and conservation.
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Coastal Protection that Appreciates: What Nature-Based Solutions Reveal About Financing Resilience
Coastal protection is financed backward: we fund the seawall that depreciates while leaving off the ledger the ecosystem that, under the right conditions, appreciates.
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No. 7 - Distribution Moves from Principles to Plumbing
The distributional question shifted this week from principle to plumbing, as the Philippines incorporated a national nature-based solutions framework into an administrative order and the evidence hardened on whether capital labeled for nature, public or private, conserves anything at all.
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No. 6 - Who Benefits, Who Decides, Who Pays
After London’s marquee week, the field’s question turned from whether nature is investable to who benefits, who decides, and who pays.
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No. 5 - One Agenda in Language, Not Yet on the Ledger
Climate and nature became one agenda this week: in the language, not yet on the ledger
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No. 4 - From Disclosed Risk to Underwritten Asset
Nature stopped being a risk to disclose and became a resilience asset to underwrite
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Resilient Equity: What Medellín's Green Corridors Reveal About Financing Nature
What can cities, national authorities, accredited entities, practitioners, and the financiers behind them do in practice?
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No. 3 - Building the Plumbing, Not the Pitch
Nature Finance spent the week building its plumbing, not its pitch
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No. 2 - Nature Loses Track of Its Own Size
Nature is an asset class that can’t agree on its own size: The constraint is no longer whether nature is investable, but whether any figure survives being quoted twice.
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No. 1 - Capital Stops Pretending Nature Is a Separate Ledger
The week capital stopped pretending that nature was a separate ledger