Beyond Carbon Bond Prototyping - connecting liability holders and investors for ecosystem service outcomes

我们正在开发一种基于结果的金融工具，以引导城市自然解决方案（uNbS）中的资本（来自公共和私人来源），将自然资产与桥梁，道路和铁路一起作为城市基础设施的重要组成部分。我们的目标是为通过TreesAI平台汇总和分析的城市自然解决方案组合提供资金。TreesAI是一个基于云的平台，集成了影响和财务建模，用于计算基于自然的解决方案提供的生态系统服务，并评估缓解气候相关过渡和物理风险的潜力。通常，气候风险的缓解是使用金融对冲产品进行管理的，例如天气衍生品或保险解决方案。面对持续的气候波动，这种方法将面临成本不断上升和最终无法保险的问题。TreesAI将注意力从金融对冲转移到自然对冲。就我们的计划而言，自然对冲涉及投资于可提供利益（例如防洪）的uNbS（例如绿色屋顶或可持续城市排水系统），以帮助减轻财务风险（例如财产损失）。TreesAI平台和基于结果的新型金融工具一起允许在城市地区承担重大过渡和物理风险的公共和私营部门基于uNbS提供的当前和未来气候变化风险缓解服务（即通过提供生态系统服务（如自然洪水管理，空气净化等）产生的增值或成本节约）投资uNbS。该工具的收益将用于共同资助项目开发商管理的合格和可投资的uNbS项目。该工具允许短期至中期资本支付长期树木维护费用，从而增加铌酸锂可以提供的环境和气候风险缓解价值。

We are developing an outcomes-based financial instrument to channel capital (from public and private sources) in urban Nature-based Solutions (uNbS), establishing natural assets as a critical part of urban infrastructure, alongside bridges, roads and rail.Our aim is to fund portfolios of urban Nature-based Solutions that are aggregated and analysed via the TreesAI platform. TreesAI is a cloud-based platform integrating impact and financial modelling to calculate the ecosystem services delivered by Nature-based Solutions and assess the potential to mitigate climate-related transition and physical risks.Typically, the mitigation of climate risk is managed using financial hedging products such as weather derivatives or insurance solutions. In the face of ongoing climate volatility, this approach will be subject to escalating costs and ultimately uninsurability. TreesAI shifts the attention from financial to natural hedging. In the context of our initiative, natural hedging involves investing in uNbS (e.g. green roofs or sustainable urban drainage systems) that provide benefits (e.g. flood control) that help mitigate financial risks (e.g. damage to property). The TreesAI platform and the novel outcomes-based financial instrument together allow public and private sectors who hold significant transition and physical risks in urban areas to invest in uNbS based on the current and future climate change risk mitigation services that a uNbS provide (i.e.value added or cost savings generated through ecosystem services delivery such as natural flood management, air purification, etc.). Proceeds from the instrument will be used to co-finance eligible and investable uNbS projects managed by project developers. The instrument allows short-term to medium-term capital to pay for long-term maintenance of trees and thereby increase the environmental and climate risk mitigation value that uNbS can deliver.