Conservation Finance
Our Services
Mission Markets facilitates capital raising for issuers and fund managers that develop and invest in various conservation finance projects and funds. Conservation Finance Projects and Investments include:
- Wetland Mitigation Banking
- Conservation / Habitat Banking
- TDR Funds
- Water Quality
- Carbon Offsets
- Private Environmental and Biodiversity Funds
- Water Banks
Eco-Bid - An Online RFP/Environmental Project Reverse Auction Platform
Mission Markets recognizes the challenges that private landowners and local governments face when planning a conservation project, as well as the opportunity for environmental bankers and consultants seeking to provide services to these prospective project developers. Mission Markets Earth “Eco-bid” reverse auction RFP (Request for Proposal) platform allows prospective buyers of environmental project services to post the details of their planned project, and to solicit bids from parties interested in offering their services, in order to develop and monetize the ecosystem services of a particular property.
Features will include:
- Full description of project type, property, service area, habitat, and budget for ecosystem services to be conserved and or restored
- Ability for environmental services providers to search for specific project types and enter discreet bids at planned auctions
- Organizations and private landowners seeking RFP’s in order to monetize ecosystem services can solicit offers from multiple qualified service providers
- Discreet auctions enable multiple bids for proposed projects providing project development process and cost transparency
Monetization of tradable credits and rights generated from environmental projects will be transacted on our environmental markets trading platform, Mission Markets Earth.
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Conservation Finance
Conservation finance vehicles are designed to use market and business forces in support of nature conservation. These vehicles include payments for ecosystem services (PES) in which nature’s services are brought into the market economy through national, regional, and state based regulations in addition to voluntary markets. Currently investment opportunities exist for financing wetland mitigation banks, habitat banks, water banks and land and water-based easements and rights.
Ecosystem services have been defined as “the conditions and processes through which natural ecosystems, and the species that make them up, sustain and fulfill human life”. Examples of these services include the provision of fresh clean water, soil production, habitat for wild foods (fish, mushrooms, etc.), pest control, CO2 cycling, the removal of toxins from soils, pollination, natural beauty, and coastal protection.
Ecosystem services will remain “externalities” or “public goods” and will not be adequately supported until market based systems allow companies, organizations, governments and individuals to include ecosystem services in their investment, spending, and savings decisions. Mission Markets seeks to encourage conservation finance and the maintenance of ecosystem services by facilitating investments in the maintenance of these services and in the trading of ecosystem credits (on Mission Markets Earth).
Examples include wetland mitigation banking, habitat banking, water quality trading, conservation easements, transferable development rights and water rights. Mission Markets anticipates the expansion of these markets in the future.
Future markets will include sectors such as natural resource damage assessment, marine conservation agreements, and coastal and estuarine protection.