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What is Natural Capital Financial markets acknowledge that climate change is imminent and will significantly impact investment portfolios. In a rational market, natural capital is expected to benefit from these changes. However, many US-based financial institutions have yet to assess their nature-related financial risks or integrate them into their decision-making processes. Natural capital, often referred to as "nature investing," falls under the infrastructure, real asset, or timberland asset class category. Examples of nature investing include financing farmers to make their land more efficient, resilient, and productive, or supporting nature-based solutions such as planting mangroves to reduce shoreline flooding risks. Investments in mangroves are anticipated to yield benefits approximately four times greater than the associated costs. As global temperatures increase, extreme weather events like storms and flood surges are becoming more frequent and severe. The trunks of mangroves absorb wave impacts, providing an effective frontline defense that helps protect shorelines and higher ground. Restoring and protecting mangroves and financially valuing their role as a nature-based solution enhances the resilience of coastal communities and national economies.

As the atmosphere, oceans and land change, so too will the planet’s most influential determinant of mass behavior: prices. The new world “may even require looking at traditional macroeconomic metrics through a new climate-adjusted lens,” Kapnick writes, “as climate change and societal responses influence the economy.” https://lnkd.in/e2XV75i3

Glad to see capital flowing to another high-integrity forest-based carbon credits issuer...excellent team and strategy... https://lnkd.in/eTgxtgww

CITIGROUP ANALYSTS SAY TRUMP CAN"T REVERSE ENERGY TRANSITION - JAN 27, 2025 The policies of President Donald Trump will fail to hold back progress in transitioning away from high-carbon energy sources, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc. The energy transition is more advanced today than during Trump’s first term, and the desire to generate cheap, secure sources of power fit the “smart, technologically innovative, policy-supportive, and economically viable solutions” that green energy offers, they said. “Clean energy is cheaper, more widely available, and more efficient,” they said. “For advocates of clean energy transition, the power of economics will prevail.” https://lnkd.in/eDyM9jTm

Delighted to share that Acadiance recently was invited to join Northeastern University's Roux Center Climate-Tech Incubator in Portland, Maine. The Roux Institute’s academic and research expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data visualization, data analysis, and materials science will accelerate the Acadiance mission: Unlocking financial value and growth in forest-based economies requires a financial bridge between natural capital and the global capital markets. Acadiance is that bridge. The ClimateTech Incubator at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, is a regional hub for promising firms focused on technology solutions to climate change.? https://lnkd.in/e8TtXsV6? ??

We were delighted to attend the Our Katahdin and One North's Katahdin Summit on the doorstep of Maine's vast north Maine Woods. The community, elected officials, organizational and business leaders from around the state of Maine, New England, and Eastern Canada gathered to share ideas, discuss solutions, and catalyze innovative ways to revitalize rural, wooded communities. Supporting thriving forests by valuing intrinsic natural capital, combined with new uses for low-value wood is a great start! Not a bad office view for the last few days. (photo of Katahdin from Millinocket, Maine, Ktaadn Resort Event Center) #valuenature #naturalcapital

This article addresses the demand-side of our business. Acadiance securitizes and transacts Maine-forest-based carbon offsets and helps improve the forest's economic agency so thriving forests can better compete as an asset class (Natural Capital) with improved intrinsic value and a more attractive risk / return profile. Financing forestlands to thrive 1) sequesters and absorbs more greenhouse gases, 2) impacts environmental factors like biodiversity, clean water, and habitats, and 3) creates jobs and injects fresh capital to help revitalize rural, wooded communities that have been economically damaged by paper-mill closure and the changing forest products industry. Wishing a happy Friday to you and yours, and to Mother Nature?? https://lnkd.in/de7iFWCn

We are delighted to attend the Maine Forest Biomaterials Week hosted by the University of Maine! Maine is 89% forested, and the future is bright for new, innovative uses of wood fiber. The conference showcases sustainable forest bio-derived products and research innovation focused on new economic opportunities leveraging Maine’s forest resources. #biomaterials #maineforests #carbonremoval #naturebasedsolutions

McKinsey & Company published a fascinating interview with Anne Finucane, Chair of Rubicon Carbon. The Acadiance team couldn’t agree more with Finucane’s perspective on the importance of nature-based solutions and the need for meaningful capital investments. Here is a highlight from their Q&A. #climatefinance #VCM #NatureBasedSolutions McKinsey: How do you expect carbon markets to evolve in the next several years?? Anne Finucane: As you know, the capital markets business is both complex and sophisticated. And there are rules to it, and people understand the rules and come to work every day using the rules. I think you’ll see the same in the years to come regarding VCMs and carbon markets in general. I also think that the use of concessionary capital; blended finance; prices on carbon; and iterations of these nature-, industrial-, and technology-based solutions will become de rigueur. They will become familiar to people and will be priced in the market, much the same as other vehicles are today. But we have some big rocks to push over first.?One is bringing trust and transparency back to the carbon credits business. In the nature-based category, the reality is, without the VCM, forests and carbon sinks may not be created or preserved.?Land will likely be used for industry, which will, in turn, not only eliminate natural carbon sequestration but also further deteriorate biodiversity and natural habitats. The second is perfecting industrial solutions, including everything from decommissioning coal plants to carbon capture—in terms of capturing, transporting, and storing carbon from power and industry and leaning into nature-based carbon capture, such as restoring wetlands and implementing restorative agricultural practices. At the end of the day, companies need to benefit from putting meaningful capital into these efforts. I have confidence that we can make it happen. Link to the full article: https://lnkd.in/gDR6dSVf

McKinsey & Company published a fascinating interview with Anne Finucane, Chair of Rubicon Carbon. The Acadiance team couldn’t agree more with Finucane’s perspective on the importance of nature-based solutions and the need for meaningful capital investments. Here is a highlight from their Q&A. #climatefinance #VCM #NatureBasedSolutions McKinsey: How do you expect carbon markets to evolve in the next several years?? Anne Finucane: As you know, the capital markets business is both complex and sophisticated. And there are rules to it, and people understand the rules and come to work every day using the rules. I think you’ll see the same in the years to come regarding VCMs and carbon markets in general. I also think that the use of concessionary capital; blended finance; prices on carbon; and iterations of these nature-, industrial-, and technology-based solutions will become de rigueur. They will become familiar to people and will be priced in the market, much the same as other vehicles are today. But we have some big rocks to push over first.?One is bringing trust and transparency back to the carbon credits business. In the nature-based category, the reality is, without the VCM, forests and carbon sinks may not be created or preserved.?Land will likely be used for industry, which will, in turn, not only eliminate natural carbon sequestration but also further deteriorate biodiversity and natural habitats. The second is perfecting industrial solutions, including everything from decommissioning coal plants to carbon capture—in terms of capturing, transporting, and storing carbon from power and industry and leaning into nature-based carbon capture, such as restoring wetlands and implementing restorative agricultural practices. At the end of the day, companies need to benefit from putting meaningful capital into these efforts. I have confidence that we can make it happen. Link to the full article: https://lnkd.in/gDR6dSVf