Coming out of the COP17 on biodiversity in Yerevan, twenty-two of the twenty-three targets of the Kunming-Montreal framework remain off track. The discussions put nature credits at the centre, with one question: how do we finance the regeneration of ecosystems?
The demonstration site at Les Arches Castriotes, in Castries, provides a concrete answer. It shows what the regeneration of a territory looks like when it is driven and financed by nature credits, the very credits the parties debated at the COP. Carbon, water, soil and biodiversity are measured there over time, so that funding matches a result that has actually been observed.
In early November, the site is still in bloom. As winter begins, pollinators still find food there, and our entomologists an ecosystem that works.
The model exists. It now needs to be rolled out wherever territories need it. Businesses, local authorities, funders: come and see it in the field.
