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In 2015, Earth Security was invited by the BMW Foundation to design and facilitate a strategic dialogue in Poland. The initiative convened energy stakeholders from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the European Union—including energy and infrastructure companies, financial institutions, and policy experts—to explore shared interests in energy security as a foundation for regional cooperation.

Over the past year, we have partnered with the Bogotá Water Fund (Fondo de Agua de Bogotá Región, Corporación Agua Somos) to turn our research on cloud forest assets into action, identifying and mobilising investment opportunities to support high-Andean páramos as vital water infrastructure. In the run up to the COP16 Biodiversity Summit in Colombia, we are introducing a new investment theme aimed at creating impactful opportunities for private investors.

How Earth Security paved the way for a global rice fund exceeding $500 million.

Boosting the city’s nature-based coastal resilience through an eco-tourism model.

Jerome is joining us at an exciting time to support our mission to accelerate and augment the positive impact that global investment can have on our planet’s natural assets.

In 2017, we partnered with the Philippine Insurers and Reinsurers Association (PIRA), to explore how NbS could be incorporated into the industry’s climate resilience strategy. We are delighted to share that PIRA is now moving forward to pilot three mangrove insurance products - a general product for SMEs, one for infrastructure, and another for agriculture - all to be made available in 2025.

Blended finance is impossible to scale without increasing the availability of public and philanthropic sources of concessionary capital.

Earth Security Founder, Alejandro Litovsky and Tom Hall, Global Head of Social Impact and Philanthropy at UBS, joined Monocle Radio's Tom Edwards to discuss investing through a natural-asset lens.

There is a clear and consistently made argument in favour of pricing pollution into financial markets and the global economy. If carbon emissions, and business activities that harm biodiversity and carbon sequestration, are made more expensive, then businesses will be forced to either reduce or halt their harmful practices.

Hydropower capacity is expected to double in the coming decades, but many infrastructure investors are already picking up the risks of climate change. Impact-Investor.com speaks to our CEO Alejandro Litovsky about why infrastructure investors need to see nature as an asset and build it into their investment strategy.

As the voluntary carbon market tethers, how else can African countries that are rich in biodiversity use nature as an investment asset? The African Business Magazine interviewed our founder Alejandro Litovsky to explore in what areas nature-based solutions can support the growth of sustainable investments across the continent.

“Investors must change their due diligence frameworks when considering a hydroelectric power plant and ask themselves, what is the natural capital input? Where is the water coming from that is so core to my investment?" states Earth Security CEO & Founder Alejandro Litovsky in this article by Christopher Walker.

Drawing on our latest report uncovering the value of cloud forests, Earth Security CEO Alejandro Litovsky speaks to ESG Investor about how nature-based solutions offer a world of opportunities for companies and their investors, whether in food, materials, fashion, infrastructure, or financial sectors.

Edie highlights the findings of Earth Security’s newest report, urging investors and nations to collaborate to protect threatened cloud forests – a natural ecosystem of high importance to banks and investors, hydropower operators and other water-intensive industries benefitting from the water services cloud forests currently provide.

Nature is an asset far more valuable than just its carbon, but how valuable? Mongabay talks to our founder and CEO Alejandro Litovsky about our proposal to work on new financial opportunities to support threatened cloud forests and their vital ecosystem services at scale.

Cloud forests are mountain tropical forests, constantly shrouded in mist, which sit at the headwater of river basins. They capture moisture from the air providing fresh, clean water to communities and industries, including vital water flows to hydropower plants. Our new report reveals how cloud forests have significant economic value that can be unlocked through sovereign funding instruments, generating revenue for governments keen to make best use of their natural assets.

The Mangrove Breakthrough represents a concerted effort to address the threats facing mangroves and to promote their conservation as a vital component of climate action.

Alejandro Litovsky has been selected as a UBS Global Visionary, and is recognised as a global entrepreneur shaping opportunities to involve financial institutions in the financing of nature.

“Giving natural assets a place in the portfolios of Asia’s leading financial institutions will require building a supporting financial ecosystem - and this is something that Singapore is uniquely positioned to do”, Earth Security CEO & founder said.

At this year's Philanthropy Asia Summit, hosted by the Temasek Foundation, Alejandro Litovsky presented a series of opportunities for philanthropic capital to be deployed in a way that unlocks the private capital that is required to finance nature-based solutions in Asia and address existential risks to the region posed by the climate crisis.