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The Best Investment Opportunity Ever: Investing In Nature 101

Nine years ago, I said goodbye to Wall Street and became an investment banker for nature. After a 24-year career at Goldman Sachs where I was a partner and led a number of key business units, I left the firm to become president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the world’s largest …

This Coral Reef Will Have Its Own Innovative Insurance Policy

Because the reef protects the businesses on the shore in Mexico, it offers an incredible amount of economic value. Now, when it’s damaged, repairing it will be paid for.<p>A 40-mile stretch of coral reef off the coast of Puerto Morelos, Mexico–part of the roughly 700-mile long Mesoamerican Reef, the …

Cancun's coral reef receives a health insurance policy

Coastal hotels and tourism businesses will pay for a policy that protects them, and the coastal reef, from billions of dollars in economic losses.

Insuring nature against damage

Could insurance policies offer a new way to protect nature? Mexico's just launched a plan to insure coral reefs at the popular tourism destination of …

Mexico launches pioneering scheme to insure its coral reef

Hotels and local government in Cancún will pay premiums, and insurance industry will pay out if the reef is damaged by storms<p>A stretch of coral reef off Mexico is the testing ground for a new idea that could protect fragile environments around the world: insurance.<p>The reef, off the coast of Cancún, …

The race to save Florida’s devastated coral reef from global warming

Exxon Mobil Lends Its Support to a Carbon Tax Proposal

Exxon Mobil, other oil companies and a number of other corporate giants announced on Tuesday that they are supporting a plan to tax carbon emissions that was put forth this year by a group of Republican elder statesmen.<p>The group, the Climate Leadership Council, unveiled a “conservative climate …

ExxonMobil and Stephen Hawking Just Agreed to the Same Climate Fix

Less than three weeks after President Donald Trump pulled the United States from the 195-nation Paris Agreement on climate change, there's a new …

Minding the Gap: Energy Sprawl and Access in India

<i>By Joe Kiesecker, Scientist for Lands Conservation, The Nature Conservancy</i><p><i>Note: this article is the first in a series on “energy sprawl,” the conversion of new land for energy production. New installments will appear approximately every other week.</i><p>On my very first trip to India I experienced some …

Committed to the Ocean: The First United Nations Ocean Conference

This week, experts and decision makers from around the world gather at the United Nations in New York—to focus on the commitment made by nations in 2015 to protect the health of the ocean. Voluntary agreements have been pledged across the spectrum, from industries to NGOs, in support of Sustainable …

Global Collaboration More Crucial Than Ever As U.S. Abandons Climate Change Pact

The world waited with bated breath for U.S. President Donald Trump to announce whether he would move to take the country out of the Paris Accord — a decision that has global ramifications for climate change. Although it’s unlikely to alter the actions already taken to reduce emissions by many of …

TRUMP WITHDRAWING FROM PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would pull the US out of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, following through with a key campaign promise.<p>While the decision should galvanize his base, it goes against what some of the largest American companies — and many in the rest …

Development experts dismayed as US exits Paris climate agreement

President Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. would withdraw from the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, a process that can take up to …

What will the world look like if the U.S. bails on the Paris climate deal?

What would really happen if we pull out of this deal? What would the Earth look like in 10, in 20, in 50 years without U.S. involvement in the Paris …

Paris Exit Removes Last Check on Trump's Climate Reversals

President Donald Trump, four months into office, has already moved to eliminate regulations on power-plant emissions, rethink automobile fuel …

How the GOP is slowly going green

Conservatives are slowly coming around on climate change.<p>Over the past few years, more than a half-dozen organizations have popped up pushing …

Interior secretary’s personal schedule shows industry chiefs have frequent access

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spent much of his first two months in office meeting with energy and other industry groups, according to personal schedules released this week under the Freedom of Information Act.<p>The schedules, which cover March and April, detail a slew of meetings with oil and gas …

Want to Save the Trees? Unleash the Fungus!

They call it shroom juice, a dark slurry of fungi that will <i>not</i> get you high. Workers dump packages of magic powder into buckets, add water, and stir. …

How the forestry sector can add $120 billion to global GDP

No one predicted the rapid growth of renewables — from 31 GW to 318 GW — within 13 years, said Justin Adams, managing director of The Nature …

Keepers of Great Bear

By Amanda Fiegl<p>Out on the remote coastal islands of British Columbia, where cedars tower overhead and ancient shell middens gleam by the cool green …

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Coke and Pepsi, gardening together in Mexican mountains to preserve urban water

The semiarid Mexican city of Monterrey has two major challenges with water: either there is not enough of it, or there's far too much.<p>Improving and fixing the area’s infrastructure could cost billions. But a US environmental organization has a far cheaper solution, and it’s getting rival …

Science takes a back seat in Trump’s first 100 days

When a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the White House suddenly found itself confronting a nuclear crisis halfway …

A Brazilian water company goes back to nature to solve the problem of fluctuating water demand

Co-authors:<i><br>Timm Kroeger <br>Senior Environmental Economist,</i><i><br>The Nature Conservancy<br>Claudio Klemz</i> <i><br>Water Policy Specialist,</i><i><br>The Nature Conservancy</i><p>Balneário …

Coalition looks to natural disaster barriers

A group of strange bedfellows, including insurers and environmental groups, is teaming up to quantify and demonstrate the role that natural …

Brazilian water company case demonstrates return on investment for natural solutions

<i>By</i><i>Daniel</i><i>Shemie</i><i>,</i> <i>Timm</i><i>Kroeger</i><i>and</i><i>Claudio</i><i>Klemz</i><i>,</i> <i>The</i><i>Nature</i><i>Conservancy</i><p>Balneário Camboriú is both a famous Brazilian beach destination and a water supply …

Cities Throw Shade At Rising Heat

To cool the “urban heat islands” that they’ve become, cities are planting trees and more trees.<p>By Mindy Fetterman<p>Rudy Lane is a two-lane road that curves through the leafy suburb of Windy Hills east of Louisville, Kentucky. Broadway is a main drag downtown where the federal and state courthouses …

Cities Throw Shade at Rising Heat

Trees line a quiet streetscape in the Harlem section of New York. Trees can help bring down rising temperatures in cities.<p>Rudy Lane is a two-lane …

On World Water Day: Using Nature To Treat Wastewater

<b>22 March 2017 |</b> By definition, wastewater is something we dispose of, usually by flushing it down drains after mixing it with stuff we don’t want to …

Rebuilding the World’s Forests

To have a real shot at limiting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius by 2050, the world will need to do more than stop deforestation; it …