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🟢 Why is nature loss a direct threat to jobs, growth, and financial stability?
🟢 Why is cutting harmful subsidies so politically hard, and where has it worked?
🟢 What nature financing tools are ready to scale today?
Learn about how to properly value nature: www.paulsoninstitute.org/conservation...
🟢 Why is cutting harmful subsidies so politically hard, and where has it worked?
🟢 What nature financing tools are ready to scale today?
Learn about how to properly value nature: www.paulsoninstitute.org/conservation...
Nature is vanishing at an unprecedented rate: Up to half of the planet's species face extinction by mid-century.
October 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Nature is vanishing at an unprecedented rate: Up to half of the planet's species face extinction by mid-century.
🟢 How do we bring more private capital into biodiversity protection, and are these efforts scaling?
🟢 Why are harmful subsidies so difficult to reform?
🟢 How can finance ministers be integrated into conservation?
🟢 How can AI be utilized to help nature instead of harming it?
📸: Pat Hinton
🟢 Why are harmful subsidies so difficult to reform?
🟢 How can finance ministers be integrated into conservation?
🟢 How can AI be utilized to help nature instead of harming it?
📸: Pat Hinton
October 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
🟢 How do we bring more private capital into biodiversity protection, and are these efforts scaling?
🟢 Why are harmful subsidies so difficult to reform?
🟢 How can finance ministers be integrated into conservation?
🟢 How can AI be utilized to help nature instead of harming it?
📸: Pat Hinton
🟢 Why are harmful subsidies so difficult to reform?
🟢 How can finance ministers be integrated into conservation?
🟢 How can AI be utilized to help nature instead of harming it?
📸: Pat Hinton
PI’s Chairman Hank Paulson joins TNC’s Jennifer Morris and WWF’s Carter Roberts in conversation about how to close the biodiversity financing gap, policy recommendations, and ways to integrate climate and biodiversity solutions into today’s finance decisions.
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The Future of Biodiversity Finance
YouTube video by Paulson Institute
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October 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
PI’s Chairman Hank Paulson joins TNC’s Jennifer Morris and WWF’s Carter Roberts in conversation about how to close the biodiversity financing gap, policy recommendations, and ways to integrate climate and biodiversity solutions into today’s finance decisions.
youtu.be/lHYR7mLxKWs?...
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The world looks away as nature vanishes. Against the currents of geopolitical, technological, & economic upheaval, protecting the environment can seem like a luxury, a concern to be deferred until the world is finally at peace. But by then, it will be too late.
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Opinion | The policy tools to protect nature already exist
But government must first stop making environmental destruction worse.
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October 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The world looks away as nature vanishes. Against the currents of geopolitical, technological, & economic upheaval, protecting the environment can seem like a luxury, a concern to be deferred until the world is finally at peace. But by then, it will be too late.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
🟢 Why is nature loss a direct threat to jobs, growth, and financial stability?
🟢 Why is cutting harmful subsidies so politically hard, and where has it worked?
🟢 What nature financing tools are ready to scale today?
Learn about how to properly value nature: www.paulsoninstitute.org/conservation...
🟢 Why is cutting harmful subsidies so politically hard, and where has it worked?
🟢 What nature financing tools are ready to scale today?
Learn about how to properly value nature: www.paulsoninstitute.org/conservation...
September 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🟢 Why is nature loss a direct threat to jobs, growth, and financial stability?
🟢 Why is cutting harmful subsidies so politically hard, and where has it worked?
🟢 What nature financing tools are ready to scale today?
Learn about how to properly value nature: www.paulsoninstitute.org/conservation...
🟢 Why is cutting harmful subsidies so politically hard, and where has it worked?
🟢 What nature financing tools are ready to scale today?
Learn about how to properly value nature: www.paulsoninstitute.org/conservation...
Is nature priceless?
Much of the world’s biodiversity is at risk, yet natural ecosystems underpin every national economy. PI's new report shows how policies can make a difference and shares case studies where the right economic incentives have prompted real change.
www.csmonitor.com/Environment/...
Much of the world’s biodiversity is at risk, yet natural ecosystems underpin every national economy. PI's new report shows how policies can make a difference and shares case studies where the right economic incentives have prompted real change.
www.csmonitor.com/Environment/...
Is nature priceless? This study spotlights its huge value for the world’s economy.
Much of the world’s biodiversity is at risk, yet natural ecosystems are foundational to every national economy. A new report by the Paulson Institute, the…
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September 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Is nature priceless?
Much of the world’s biodiversity is at risk, yet natural ecosystems underpin every national economy. PI's new report shows how policies can make a difference and shares case studies where the right economic incentives have prompted real change.
www.csmonitor.com/Environment/...
Much of the world’s biodiversity is at risk, yet natural ecosystems underpin every national economy. PI's new report shows how policies can make a difference and shares case studies where the right economic incentives have prompted real change.
www.csmonitor.com/Environment/...
1️⃣ Stop paying to destroy nature.
2️⃣ Treat nature as critical infrastructure, not a free input.
3️⃣ Fight climate change and nature loss as one battle.
4️⃣ Make nature-positive investment the easy investment.
5️⃣ Scale what already works.
More finance is reaching nature than ever before, but...
2️⃣ Treat nature as critical infrastructure, not a free input.
3️⃣ Fight climate change and nature loss as one battle.
4️⃣ Make nature-positive investment the easy investment.
5️⃣ Scale what already works.
More finance is reaching nature than ever before, but...
September 24, 2026 at 3:11 PM
1️⃣ Stop paying to destroy nature.
2️⃣ Treat nature as critical infrastructure, not a free input.
3️⃣ Fight climate change and nature loss as one battle.
4️⃣ Make nature-positive investment the easy investment.
5️⃣ Scale what already works.
More finance is reaching nature than ever before, but...
2️⃣ Treat nature as critical infrastructure, not a free input.
3️⃣ Fight climate change and nature loss as one battle.
4️⃣ Make nature-positive investment the easy investment.
5️⃣ Scale what already works.
More finance is reaching nature than ever before, but...
Nature is critical infrastructure, not a free, inexhaustible good, and many tools to protect nature already exist.
PI, TNC and WWF have published a practical guide to financing the protection of nature, a record of what already works and must be scaled: www.paulsoninstitute.org/conservation...
PI, TNC and WWF have published a practical guide to financing the protection of nature, a record of what already works and must be scaled: www.paulsoninstitute.org/conservation...
September 23, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Nature is critical infrastructure, not a free, inexhaustible good, and many tools to protect nature already exist.
PI, TNC and WWF have published a practical guide to financing the protection of nature, a record of what already works and must be scaled: www.paulsoninstitute.org/conservation...
PI, TNC and WWF have published a practical guide to financing the protection of nature, a record of what already works and must be scaled: www.paulsoninstitute.org/conservation...
OUT TOMORROW: PI, TNC, and WWF release Financing Nature 2026.
The report underscores the importance of protecting biodiversity, assesses the nature financing gap, and offers proven examples of how to close it and halt biodiversity loss by scaling nature-finance solutions.
The report underscores the importance of protecting biodiversity, assesses the nature financing gap, and offers proven examples of how to close it and halt biodiversity loss by scaling nature-finance solutions.
September 22, 2026 at 5:25 PM
OUT TOMORROW: PI, TNC, and WWF release Financing Nature 2026.
The report underscores the importance of protecting biodiversity, assesses the nature financing gap, and offers proven examples of how to close it and halt biodiversity loss by scaling nature-finance solutions.
The report underscores the importance of protecting biodiversity, assesses the nature financing gap, and offers proven examples of how to close it and halt biodiversity loss by scaling nature-finance solutions.
As climate risks rise worldwide, adaptation finance remains stubbornly insufficient.
The challenge is structural: Adaptation often functions as a public good and does not attract private capital on its own. Governments must move first to make adaptation investable.
The challenge is structural: Adaptation often functions as a public good and does not attract private capital on its own. Governments must move first to make adaptation investable.
September 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
As climate risks rise worldwide, adaptation finance remains stubbornly insufficient.
The challenge is structural: Adaptation often functions as a public good and does not attract private capital on its own. Governments must move first to make adaptation investable.
The challenge is structural: Adaptation often functions as a public good and does not attract private capital on its own. Governments must move first to make adaptation investable.
We often talk about climate change and biodiversity loss as if they’re separate challenges, but these crises are interactive and reinforcing each other, and we finance and govern them as if they’re not.
The problem is: Investment in nature is currently far outstripped by climate financing.
The problem is: Investment in nature is currently far outstripped by climate financing.
September 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
We often talk about climate change and biodiversity loss as if they’re separate challenges, but these crises are interactive and reinforcing each other, and we finance and govern them as if they’re not.
The problem is: Investment in nature is currently far outstripped by climate financing.
The problem is: Investment in nature is currently far outstripped by climate financing.
China has taken a major step in its green transition with the entry into force of its Ecological and Environmental Code, which seeks to shift from a fragmented approach to environmental regulation to a more integrated system—one that explicitly links ecological protection with economic development.
September 10, 2026 at 6:24 PM
China has taken a major step in its green transition with the entry into force of its Ecological and Environmental Code, which seeks to shift from a fragmented approach to environmental regulation to a more integrated system—one that explicitly links ecological protection with economic development.
Climate risks are rising worldwide, yet adaptation finance remains stubbornly insufficient. The challenge is structural: Adaptation often functions as a public good but does not attract private capital on its own.
September 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Climate risks are rising worldwide, yet adaptation finance remains stubbornly insufficient. The challenge is structural: Adaptation often functions as a public good but does not attract private capital on its own.
"The voices warning about the risks of artificial intelligence grow louder, more urgent, and increasingly credible every day. Voices offering solutions are harder to come by," write Hank Paulson and Bob Rubin for @postopinions.bsky.social.
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Opinion | We managed financial crises. AI is a risk of a different kind.
The financial system built safeguards against systemic risks. AI development needs them, too.
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September 8, 2026 at 3:34 PM
"The voices warning about the risks of artificial intelligence grow louder, more urgent, and increasingly credible every day. Voices offering solutions are harder to come by," write Hank Paulson and Bob Rubin for @postopinions.bsky.social.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
We spent decades in financial markets and have firsthand understanding of risk and crisis management. We have seen risk mispriced before and know what it can cost. We worry that perverse financial incentives are making it difficult to protect humanity from AI, write Hank Paulson and Bob Rubin.
September 3, 2026 at 12:24 PM
We spent decades in financial markets and have firsthand understanding of risk and crisis management. We have seen risk mispriced before and know what it can cost. We worry that perverse financial incentives are making it difficult to protect humanity from AI, write Hank Paulson and Bob Rubin.
Healthy ecosystems are productive assets that underpin economies, communities, and human well-being.
China has taken a major step in its green transition with its new Ecological and Environmental Code, which brings together existing environmental laws and regulations into a more coherent framework.
China has taken a major step in its green transition with its new Ecological and Environmental Code, which brings together existing environmental laws and regulations into a more coherent framework.
September 2, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Healthy ecosystems are productive assets that underpin economies, communities, and human well-being.
China has taken a major step in its green transition with its new Ecological and Environmental Code, which brings together existing environmental laws and regulations into a more coherent framework.
China has taken a major step in its green transition with its new Ecological and Environmental Code, which brings together existing environmental laws and regulations into a more coherent framework.
To properly value nature and close the biodiversity financing gap, where do investors fit? At the center of the solution.
Nature loss is no longer just an environmental issue. It’s a material financial risk, but it’s also an opportunity. youtu.be/G94FxRBLTFo?...
Nature loss is no longer just an environmental issue. It’s a material financial risk, but it’s also an opportunity. youtu.be/G94FxRBLTFo?...
Financing Nature Explainer: Where Do Investors Fit
YouTube video by Paulson Institute
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September 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
To properly value nature and close the biodiversity financing gap, where do investors fit? At the center of the solution.
Nature loss is no longer just an environmental issue. It’s a material financial risk, but it’s also an opportunity. youtu.be/G94FxRBLTFo?...
Nature loss is no longer just an environmental issue. It’s a material financial risk, but it’s also an opportunity. youtu.be/G94FxRBLTFo?...
China has taken an important step in its green transition with the entry into force of its new Ecological and Environmental Code, which seeks to move China from a fragmented approach to environmental regulation to one that explicitly connects ecological protection with economic development.
August 26, 2026 at 2:55 PM
China has taken an important step in its green transition with the entry into force of its new Ecological and Environmental Code, which seeks to move China from a fragmented approach to environmental regulation to one that explicitly connects ecological protection with economic development.
How does China plan to peak carbon?
This summer, China’s State Council released an action plan for carbon peaking during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, outlining the country’s carbon policy priorities for the five years leading up to its 2030 carbon-peaking target.
This summer, China’s State Council released an action plan for carbon peaking during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, outlining the country’s carbon policy priorities for the five years leading up to its 2030 carbon-peaking target.
August 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
How does China plan to peak carbon?
This summer, China’s State Council released an action plan for carbon peaking during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, outlining the country’s carbon policy priorities for the five years leading up to its 2030 carbon-peaking target.
This summer, China’s State Council released an action plan for carbon peaking during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, outlining the country’s carbon policy priorities for the five years leading up to its 2030 carbon-peaking target.
Recently inscribed as the newest US UNESCO #WorldHeritage Site, Okefenokee is recognized as one of the world's largest intact freshwater wetlands—an ecosystem shaped by natural hydrology, remarkable biodiversity, and millennia of ecological evolution.
August 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Recently inscribed as the newest US UNESCO #WorldHeritage Site, Okefenokee is recognized as one of the world's largest intact freshwater wetlands—an ecosystem shaped by natural hydrology, remarkable biodiversity, and millennia of ecological evolution.
We know how to close the biodiversity financing gap. What's missing is political leadership.
Governments have three critical levers they can utilize:
Reform harmful subsidies.
Integrate nature into economic and financial systems.
De-risk and incentivize private investment.
youtu.be/r2rCnbiObiE?...
Governments have three critical levers they can utilize:
Reform harmful subsidies.
Integrate nature into economic and financial systems.
De-risk and incentivize private investment.
youtu.be/r2rCnbiObiE?...
Financing Nature Explainer: What Governments Must Do
YouTube video by Paulson Institute
youtu.be
August 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
We know how to close the biodiversity financing gap. What's missing is political leadership.
Governments have three critical levers they can utilize:
Reform harmful subsidies.
Integrate nature into economic and financial systems.
De-risk and incentivize private investment.
youtu.be/r2rCnbiObiE?...
Governments have three critical levers they can utilize:
Reform harmful subsidies.
Integrate nature into economic and financial systems.
De-risk and incentivize private investment.
youtu.be/r2rCnbiObiE?...
100% of the global economy is 100% dependent on nature. Yet, nature remains one of the most undervalued assets in the financial system.
Global investments in nature total only an estimated $60–70B a year, leaving an almost $1T financing gap, far short of what is needed to halt biodiversity loss.
Global investments in nature total only an estimated $60–70B a year, leaving an almost $1T financing gap, far short of what is needed to halt biodiversity loss.
July 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
100% of the global economy is 100% dependent on nature. Yet, nature remains one of the most undervalued assets in the financial system.
Global investments in nature total only an estimated $60–70B a year, leaving an almost $1T financing gap, far short of what is needed to halt biodiversity loss.
Global investments in nature total only an estimated $60–70B a year, leaving an almost $1T financing gap, far short of what is needed to halt biodiversity loss.
🟢How can we make a difference in protecting nature?
🟢What are agriculture's effects on climate, biodiversity, water, and vital ecosystems?
🟢Where is there room for optimism at the intersection of AI and ocean conservation?
🟢What is the cost of not acting on climate change and biodiversity loss?
🟢What are agriculture's effects on climate, biodiversity, water, and vital ecosystems?
🟢Where is there room for optimism at the intersection of AI and ocean conservation?
🟢What is the cost of not acting on climate change and biodiversity loss?
July 28, 2026 at 3:45 PM
🟢How can we make a difference in protecting nature?
🟢What are agriculture's effects on climate, biodiversity, water, and vital ecosystems?
🟢Where is there room for optimism at the intersection of AI and ocean conservation?
🟢What is the cost of not acting on climate change and biodiversity loss?
🟢What are agriculture's effects on climate, biodiversity, water, and vital ecosystems?
🟢Where is there room for optimism at the intersection of AI and ocean conservation?
🟢What is the cost of not acting on climate change and biodiversity loss?
Climate change demands urgent action, but not at nature’s expense.
Nature's degradation poses a significant threat to the economy, from sectors ranging from agriculture to tourism to healthcare.
Nature's degradation poses a significant threat to the economy, from sectors ranging from agriculture to tourism to healthcare.
July 21, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Climate change demands urgent action, but not at nature’s expense.
Nature's degradation poses a significant threat to the economy, from sectors ranging from agriculture to tourism to healthcare.
Nature's degradation poses a significant threat to the economy, from sectors ranging from agriculture to tourism to healthcare.