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The United Nations Water conference, March 2023 — The author's view of the UN Water Conference.

In many parts of the world, clean water is still an untapped market – but a flow of innovative finance is beginning to change this. Currently, the United Nations estimates that between $182 billion to over $600 billion annually is needed to address the global water crisis. Worldwide, millions of...

Food companies have started to incorporate regenerative agriculture into their sustainability strategies and supply chains - it’s an important buzzword today for companies, but how are they defining it? And what are they doing to support farmers in the transition? I spoke with Daily Harvest - the plant-based meal delivery...

This March 31 briefing explains how the final draft from the Task Force for Nature-Related Financial Disclosure endorses a "scope" approach to future reporting.

This March 27 dispatch assesses how UBS' absorption of Credit Suisse will invite other investment banks to build market share in ocean and other conservation deals.

A March 24 dispatch from a radio station in Wisconsin's North Woods traces opposite trajectories in the volume of people exploring the outdoors and the volume of state funding for public lands.

In December 2022 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) advocated urgency for an expedited 2025 timeline to more than double finance flows in nature-based solutions (NbS) to limit climate change to below 1.5°C, halt biodiversity loss, and achieve land degradation neutrality. UNEP published the second edition of its “State of...

Seaweed—as a food source and beyond—has the potential to be profitable and sustainable, while supporting culturally important cuisines and strengthening the base of the marine food web. Recently, interest in cultivating seaweed, especially in the United States, has grown—but anyone interested in growing seaweed, investing in it, or processing it...

This March 17 story delves into a report projecting a 40% shortfall in freshwater supply before 2030.

This March 8 op/ed, courtesy Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's foundation, argues for public-private piles of capital to scale conservation as needed.

This February 27 event recap salutes the idea of building investment strategies around distributive justice.

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