Ecosystem Marketplace’s Nature’s Investment Frontier report examines how biodiversity finance markets can help address global ecological challenges. Published in April 2025, it emphasizes the need for integrity in market design. It focuses on public-private partnerships, systemic changes in how we value nature, and integrating biodiversity into sectors like infrastructure. The report stresses that true nature-positive outcomes depend on careful planning, not shortcuts.
The World Wildlife Fund released a report in March 2025 based on research from Wild Business. It finds that the world must nearly triple its annual spending on nature-based solutions from US$200 billion to US$542 billion by 2030 to mitigate the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. It includes real-life examples of nature-based solutions in action to show how these projects can transform landscapes and create profits.
AAE released its April 2025 report critiquing major voluntary carbon standards for lacking strong safeguards to protect Indigenous rights, land tenure, and gender equity. It calls for a rights-based approach to ensure carbon markets benefit people as well as the planet, and prevent harm to vulnerable communities.
The State of the Blue Carbon Market report highlights the potential of coastal ecosystems (mangroves, seagrasses, salt marshes) in climate mitigation. Published by Ecosystem Marketplace in October 2024, it says that despite challenges like high costs and regulatory hurdles, the market for blue carbon credits is growing. Scaling up through better financing and policy support is key to unlocking their potential.
This report, published in March 2025 by AlliedOffsets, projects steady growth for the voluntary carbon market. It expects retirements to reach one billion tons and market value to hit $40 billion by 2040. However, it predicts low prices until 2032, followed by rising demand and higher prices driven by improved credit quality and market shifts.
Published in April 2025, the AlliedOffsets and Planet 2050 SF₆ Report highlights the extent of sulfur hexafluoride’s climate impact and its overlooked role in carbon markets. It calls for greater focus on SF₆ reduction through new technologies, policies, and inclusion in global climate strategies.
Serena Capital and Nature4Climate partnered to produce the VC Funding Trends in Nature Tech report in April 2025. It highlights how nature tech startups experienced a 16 percent rise in venture capital investments compared to 2023, with the total investment reaching $2.1 billion in 2024. Early-stage funding is growing, with the U.S. and Europe leading investment trends in nature tech. Key sectors include food and agriculture, biodiversity credits, and water management.
Ecosystem Marketplace’s Nature’s Investment Frontier report examines how biodiversity finance markets can help address global ecological challenges. Published in April 2025, it emphasizes the need for integrity in market design. It focuses on public-private partnerships, systemic changes in how we value nature, and integrating biodiversity into sectors like infrastructure. The report stresses that true nature-positive outcomes depend on careful planning, not shortcuts.
The World Wildlife Fund released a report in March 2025 based on research from Wild Business. It finds that the world must nearly triple its annual spending on nature-based solutions from US$200 billion to US$542 billion by 2030 to mitigate the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. It includes real-life examples of nature-based solutions in action to show how these projects can transform landscapes and create profits.
Sylvera and CDR.fyi predict that tech-based removal credits will increasingly make up a larger proportion of the CDR market. This report, based on a market-participant survey in February 2025, expects the ratio of nature-based and tech-based credits to switch from 6:1 to 1.2:1 by 2030. Respondents predict that the price for tech-based credits will fall over the next two decades and that decisions from the key net-zero standards setters will be extremely influential.