A Landscape Assessment of an Emerging Market
January 11, 2017
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Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace publishes State of Private Investment in Conservation 2016: A Landscape Assessment of an Emerging Market, which builds on a 2014 report, Investing in Conservation: A landscape assessment of an emerging market, to track the development of the field of conservation investing. The report defines these conservation investments as those including any private capital committed for sustainable food and fiber production, habitat protection, or clean water that aim to achieve environmental conservation while also delivering a financial return.
State of Private Investment in Conservation 2016 draws on survey responses from 128 banks, companies, fund managers, family offices, and non-governmental organizations, most of which are headquartered in North America and Europe. The report finds that the private sector channeled $8.2 billion of private capital into investments that seek measureable environmental benefits—in addition to financial returns—between 2004 and 2015. New Forests also demonstrates in the report, that "the growing confidence in stable returns from conservation-oriented investments, points to a new wave of investable conservation efforts…that are emerging in response to demand from impact investors.”
