Reuters
By Ricardo Narvaez
ESG investing is retreating, but the appetite to do something real for nature hasn’t gone away. In this Reuters commentary, climate finance expert Ricardo Narvaez asks a simple question: what if investors could directly back the people who are already protecting the land?
NativState’s work is at the center of the story.
Read how forest carbon programs are giving landowners like Lori Melton of Arkansas the financial freedom to hold on to what matters most, and why that model may be the next evolution in sustainable investing.
“Lori Melton inherited forestland in Arkansas. Developers kept knocking. A NativState forest carbon program changed the math and kept the land in the family. Reuters says that story holds a lesson for the entire sustainable investing industry.”