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This May 17 story visits two farmers investing in soil-health innovation before it gets to carbon-market scale.

Rachel Kyte, who helped hammer out the Paris agreement, talks through techniques to deliver robust carbon markets before (or instead of waiting until) governments make the rules. The interview requires a 7-day free trial.

This January, Environmental Defense Fund and Farmers Business Network launched the pilot Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund (RAFF). Enrolled farmers who meet soil health and nitrogen efficiency standards will access a 0.5% discount on a one-year credit line. This product, years in the making, aims to update farm financing.

This April 19 TV story from a Baltimore affiliate elucidates some water-management practice in a state where conservation finance now flows through public policy.

So five gargantuan companies are deploying $925 million for what they say are verifiable carbon-credit projects. Here's the April 13 take in GreenBiz on a new venture from Alphabet, Meta, McKinsey, Shopify and Stripe.

On March 21, the stock-ticker-watchers of CNBC turned their attention to the burgeoning regenerative-agriculture model.

This paper, published February 4, looks at how trees on grassland consistently cool areas around them in Africa and Latin America. Does that give bond buyers or BMP developers an idea or two?

BIg Spring Run development site, with wetlands — (Photo by Sam Feibel/Franklin & Marshall College.) This restored wetland brings life back to a Pennsylvania site that once posed a threat to the Chesapeake Bay.

By removing "legacy sediment" from dam diversions, scientists can expand wetlands and their conservation oomph. In Pennsylvania, a commercial real estate firm learned how this wetland protection can create more developable land - and more profit.

District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) created a municipal bond that covers the downside risk of using green infrastructure to control stormwater runoff. By offloading risk to investors, the utility drew new financing -and time to get its practices right. Now other cities are following its lead.

Wetland restoration aerial photo — In the wake of Katrina, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries
and the state of Louisiana teamed up to rebuild
significant portions of a 19-mile expanse of
barrier islands off Barataria Bay. Newly
rebuilt beaches and dunes were erected from
2006-2009, and scientists today continue to
monitor for changes in elevation, vegetation
and species abundance at this site. To learn more
about this project, visit the NOAA website.
(Credit: NOAA)

Bordered by beautiful wetlands along the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana is a hub of transportation and industry. A pilot environmental impact bond could seed a set of wetland-restoration projects for the state. Environmental Defense Fund, Quantified Ventures, and their project partners are proposing to draw on funding from the Deepwater...

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The Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund's Climate-Smart Rebate

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Meta and Partners Push Nearly $1 Billion Into Offsets

Cattle Don't Squawk, But Regenerative Ag Achieves "Squawk Box" Attention

Time for Seed Capital? Documenting "Silvopasture'"s Public Goods

Removing Sediment to Restore Wetlands Clears Revenue Paths

A Pioneering Environmental Impact Bond for DC Water (Updated)

Louisiana Environmental Impact Bond May Reduce Coastal Land Loss