Forest Bonds http://www.forestbonds.com Forest Bonds Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:30:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 IFC Proof of Concept Study http://www.forestbonds.com/reports/ifc-proof-of-concept-study http://www.forestbonds.com/reports/ifc-proof-of-concept-study#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:00:22 +0000 Jon Grayson http://www.forestbonds.com/?p=99 This report explores how conventional structured finance methods may improve the access long-term finance for natural tropical forests. A forest-backed bond structured around different forest and forest related assets, portfolio diversification, environmental/ecosystem payment flows and third party insurance for both timber and the environmental/ecosystem payment flows, could deliver the up-front capital needed to secure long term tropical sustainable forest management and reduce the economic bias towards unsustainable extraction resulting from expensive local bank loans or equity financing.

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