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Articles by Eric Letsinger
A decade of outcomes-based financing lays the groundwork for impact at scale
Environmental impact bonds have introduced new ways to finance nature-based solutions. The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund is incentivizing farmers to profitably adopt conservation agriculture practices. And health insurers are paying community-based organizations to help reduce avoidable hospital visits through our Health Outcomes Fund.
Can Cities Play in the Industrial Transition?
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Outcomes-Based Approaches to Health Care Finance Can Address Unmet Needs
In the United States, most would agree that we are over-indexed on health care spending and under-indexed on spending for social services. As a result, significant resources are allocated to manage conditions that could have been avoided by addressing, further upstream, the health-related social needs of individuals and populations.
Earth Day: The newest eco warriors are growing your food in America’s heartland
Outside the Box Published: April 22, 2020 at 4:32 p.m. ET By Farmers in Iowa are getting paid to implement conservation practices that capture carbon and reduce fertilizer runoff Getty Images The coronavirus crisis has led to a big drop in greenhouse gas emissions as world economies have ground to a near halt. Some analysts estimate that China’s CO2 emissions, for example, have fallen as much as 25% since the start of the crisis.
State and Local Governments Need Coronavirus Stimulus. Infrastructure Can Help.
As Congress rushes to pass a $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package, corporate lobbyists are scrambling for government support to protect their industries from the pandemic’s brutal economic fallout. Airlines, hotels, banks, and energy companies are among those in line for big infusions of government cash, alongside small businesses and individuals.
Sharing the Risks and Rewards
My wife and I have typically shied away from hobbies that could put me in a position of having to fix things that might break — such as a boat. But as longtime residents of Washington, D.C., we are drawn to spending time near the area’s rivers and recently found ourselves part of a local boat share program.
5 challenges and opportunities in using green financing for cities
While there is great appetite from investors for "impact" deals, those deals can be hard to come by because they take time, collaboration and creativity to structure. By matching the needs of cities with the goals of impact investors, places like Atlanta, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. are taking advantage of a new financing model called the Environmental Impact Bond.
Credit Suisse’s 5th Annual Conservation Finance Conference: “Nature Reduces Risk”
From hurricanes to floods, earthquakes to landslides, wildfires to the monsoons, 2017 was far from normal. While 2017 as a whole has weighed in as a few standard deviations from the mean on many fronts, Mother Nature made headlines time and again for devastating storm and weather events across the world. But as climate change shifts what was once normal, the question now becomes: how can we work across sectors to be more ready next time for this “new normal”?
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