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Who owns the challenge? The market is growing, but what exactly are we financing?
Nature finance may finally be scaling. The harder question is whether we are financing nature’s assets, or the functions those assets actually perform.
 • Eoin Murray
COP17: maybe the nature finance gap isn't really a finance gap?
From COP17 in Yerevan: perhaps the nature finance gap is less about money than about what we contract for
 • Eoin Murray
The missing contract
Paying providers for the services and performance they can deliver, rather than for outcomes they cannot control
 • Eoin Murray
OBF grew up - so can nature finance
What outcome-based finance and parametric insurance can teach nature finance about paying for results
 • Eoin Murray
The instrument problem
Part 5: the capital exists, so the next stage of nature finance is about the instruments that can hold it
 • Eoin Murray
Two halves of the same market
Fixing appraisal on the buy side is only half the problem; the supply side has to change too
 • Eoin Murray
The contracting decade?
The financial architecture needed to turn ecosystem-service benefits into durable claims and revenue
 • Eoin Murray
Critical natural assets, UK & Ireland: the map worth building [Part II]
Part II: re-running the critical natural assets approach at the scale where decisions are made
 • Eoin Murray
Critical natural assets in the UK & Ireland - a map is not a market
Mapping critical natural assets is not the same as finding the beneficiaries who might pay for them
 • Eoin Murray
Why nature finance keeps stalling at credit, and what to do about it
Ecological value, financial value and investable cashflow are different things, and the gap between them is where deals stall
 • Eoin Murray
From mitigation to contribution: why blue carbon and Marine Net Gain could reshape the offshore economy
Why blue carbon and Marine Net Gain could shift offshore sectors from minimising harm to contributing to recovery.
 • Eoin Murray
Bulldozers one day, butterflies the next
What the revised Environmental Improvement Plan says about where the government really stands on nature.
 • Eoin Murray
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