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climate-nature nexus

From Assurance to Architecture: The Financial Instruments That Close the Nexus

More money is necessary but not sufficient. Between a climate-finance pledge and a financed project stands the architecture that turns a valued ecosystem into a payment someone is obliged to make, and that architecture is thin.

Four stages a mangrove hectare must clear under the Blue Action Fund call: apply, deliver, certify, transfer. Article 6 authorization is drawn as a gate no applicant can open.

climate-nature nexus

The Reconciliation Burden: What One Mangrove Hectare Must Prove and to Whom

Nature finance did not fail to write its rules. Nature finance wrote several sets of them, each for a different purpose, none designed to be reconciled with the next, and left the reconciliation to the project, which pays in time and depends on institutions no proponent can direct.

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.

Two-part diagram: the Medellin lesson on equity and the financing gap, beside an integrated blueprint for corridors that cool, drain, and provide habitat, funded by land value capture.

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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?