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Environmental markets that generate real value for nature.

Environmental markets can mobilize finance for conservation, restoration, climate change mitigation and sustainable management projects.

However, their ability to deliver positive outcomes depends on how they are designed, measured and managed.

EMFF works to ensure these markets develop on principles of environmental integrity, transparency and equity, incorporating environmental and social safeguards from the design stage.

Stone farmhouse in a clearing among forested mountains.

What we mean by environmental markets

Mechanisms that assign economic value to positive outcomes for nature

We do not see these mechanisms as an end in themselves, but as tools to transform how capital is allocated and to recognize the value of ecosystems and of the people and organizations that conserve and restore them.

  • Biodiversity credits
  • Carbon markets
  • Payment-for-environmental-outcomes mechanisms
  • Other instruments aimed at channeling investment toward conservation and restoration

Carbon and biodiversity credits

Integrity that builds trust.

Environmental credits can provide financing to territories and projects that generate climate, ecological and social benefits.

To make them credible and help ensure their value better reflects the outcomes generated, EMFF works on the following elements:

  1. Additionality
  2. Measurable results
  3. Permanence
  4. No double counting
  5. Social and environmental safeguards
  6. Transparency
  7. Independent verification
  8. Fair benefit sharing

Nature-based solutions

Nature-based solutions.

Nature-based solutions harness the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of ecosystems to address social, climate and environmental challenges.

EMFF promotes nature-based solutions grounded in scientific rigor, community participation and appropriate financing mechanisms.

They can help to:

  • Mitigate climate change.
  • Support adaptation.
  • Reduce vulnerability to extreme weather events.
  • Protect biodiversity.
  • Improve water security.
  • Restore degraded landscapes.
  • Increase territorial resilience.
  • Generate local economic opportunities.

Climate and nature finance

Mobilize resources toward verifiable outcomes.

We analyze and promote financial instruments capable of channeling capital toward environmental conservation and restoration projects, as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation.

To this end, we seek to connect project needs with the expectations of investors and institutions, building trust while always safeguarding environmental integrity.

The instruments and mechanisms considered include:

  • Public and private finance
  • Blended instruments
  • Environmental credits
  • Climate funds
  • Payments for results
  • Impact investment
  • Jurisdictional mechanisms

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Safeguards

Let’s work together

Let's make nature visible in the decisions that shape our future.

We work with organizations that want to better understand their relationship with natural systems and contribute to the development of rigorous, fair and scalable environmental solutions.

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