4Nature
4Nature
Conservation Finance Alliance & Conservation Strategy Fund
Season 3 Episode 2: The Gold Standard: Valuing Intact Nature While We Fix What's Broken
44 minutes Posted May 6, 2025 at 1:00 pm.
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Send us a text What if we've built conservation markets backward? Mike Korchinsky, founder of Wildlife Works, reveals how we've created elaborate systems to pay for reducing destruction while assigning zero value to what remains intact. After pioneering REDD+ carbon credits that moved millions to indigenous communities, Korchinsky is now challenging both corporate leaders and environmental activists with a provocative framework: "The market is the worst form of conservation finance - except f...