[Finance] Forest-Finance risk network: towards stable investment environments for forestry

我们的愿景是：通过激励私人对可持续管理的森林生态系统服务的投资来推动气候变化缓解行动。我们的贡献：解决森林碳损失风险测绘、建模和量化方面的专业知识与投资者对森林投资(包括REDD+)的信心之间的关键差距。我们的重点：解决四类风险：(一)气候风险(二)火灾(三)人为风险和(四)监管风险。我们的目标：鼓励英国知识经纪人和金融机构在森林损失和风险测绘方面利用英国的世界级知识库--NERC和其他地方。我们的影响：通过这项工作，更准确和全面地了解世界各地的森林主张所代表的真正风险；为林业创造更稳定和主流的投资环境；使林业从业务边缘发展到航空、汽车、人寿和养老金等常见业务。我们请求提供为期12个月的资金，以支持建立森林风险换金融网络。包括WillisRE有限公司、ForestRe有限公司、Ecometrica有限公司、AcClimate atise有限公司、爱丁堡气候变化中心和森林研究在内的合作伙伴将为该KE倡议提供超过55,000 GB的现金和实物。将任命一个PDRA，以有效地将NERC资助的和英国研究社区(关于森林损失风险)聚集在一起，并积极接触潜在用户(经纪人和最终用户)。这一倡议源于：(A)由国家林业和金融研究中心资助的长期金融研讨会(2010年7月和2010年9月，伦敦)上提出的关于“林业和金融：数据在哪里”的建议，私人助理(Patenaude)是该研讨会的特邀小组成员；(B)由国家林业研究中心金融服务知识和创新经理理查德·马克斯-利诺(Richard Max-Lino)领导的更广泛的长期金融活动和长期金融倡议(http://www.zyen.com/long-finance.html).)

Our vision: To impel climate change mitigation action by motivating private investments in sustainably managed forest ecosystem services. Our contribution: To address a critical KE gap between expertise on the mapping, modelling and quantification of the risk of forest carbon loss, and investor's confidence in forest investments (including in REDD+). Our focus: To address 4 categories of risks (i) Climatic (ii) Fire (iii) Anthropogenic and (iv) Regulatory. Our aim: To stimulate the exploitation of UK's world-class knowledge base -NERC and elsewhere - in forest loss and risk mapping by the UK knowledge brokers and financial institutions. Our impacts: To deliver, as a consequence of this work, a more accurate and holistic understanding of the real risk represented by forest propositions around the world; a more stable and mainstream investment environment for forestry and; to bring forestry from the margins of business, to a business line as common as aviation, motor or life and pensions. We request funding for a period of 12 months to support the creation of a ForestRisks-for-Finance Network. Partners, including WillisRE Ltd., ForestRe Ltd., Ecometrica Ltd, Acclimatise Ltd. The Edinburgh Centre on Climate Change, and Forest Research will contribute more than £55,000 in-cash and in-kind to this KE initiative. A PDRA will be appointed to effectively bring together the NERC funded and UK research community (on forest-loss risks) as well as to proactively engage with potential users (Brokers & End users). This initiative stems from (a) recommendations made at the NERC-funded Long Finance symposia on "Forestry and Finance: Where's the data" (London, July 2010 and Sept 2010), to which the PI (Patenaude) was an invited panellist and (b) the wider KE activities led by Richard Max-Lino (NERC Knowledge and Innovation Manager, Financial Services) and the Long Finance initiative (http://www.zyen.com/long-finance.html).