Will Ecosystem Services Attract Investors?

Charles Sims, Ben Blachly and Travis Warziniack

Land Economics, 2024, vol. 100, issue 2, 296-313

Abstract: An unanswered question in conservation economics is how to leverage impact investing for the provision of ecosystem services. We develop and apply a general conceptual model of a diversified ecosystem service portfolio to highlight two key insights about which ecosystem services will attract impact investing. First, generating a positive expected return via markets or payments for ecosystem services is a necessary but insufficient condition to elicit impact investment in ecosystem services. Second, ecosystem services can show a new diversification value that increases the value of the ecosystem service asset to an institutional investor.

JEL-codes: Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.100.2.111422-0097R
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