climate-nature nexus
The Glossary Is Live, and It Is Yours to Strengthen
Working reference for climate, nature, NbS, and EbA terminology. Updated entries — 24 July 2026. A living reference, updated monthly — comments and suggestions welcome.
climate-nature nexus
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.
climate-nature nexus
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.
climate-nature nexus
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.
climate-nature nexus
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.
climate-nature nexus
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.
climate-nature nexus
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
climate-nature nexus
No. 4 - From Disclosed Risk to Underwritten Asset
Nature stopped being a risk to disclose and became a resilience asset to underwrite
climate-nature nexus
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?
climate-nature nexus
No. 3 - Building the Plumbing, Not the Pitch
Nature Finance spent the week building its plumbing, not its pitch
climate-nature nexus
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.
climate-nature nexus
No. 1 - Capital Stops Pretending Nature Is a Separate Ledger
The week capital stopped pretending that nature was a separate ledger