Are you needing to express the Value of the Benefits your project provides? Or do you have a ecosystem/site/project you want to permanently protect?
Based on the work we are doing with RealValue (link to regen forum post) we have the basis for what we call Ecological Ensurance.
Ensurance is the financial model that Ensures ecosystems and the benefits they provide will permanently be protected. The Ensurance Premium is calculated off of the relationship between the annual RealValue, capital providers, and the underlying real asset cost/value. This relationship calcualtes cost options to put the ecosystem Entrust either today, 2030, 2040, or 2050. We can even do a custom # of years or year by year. It works for non-profit capital providers or market rate investors, both of which we call Ensurers.
In any scenario the land is protected from day one while it is Ensured and goes in Entrust based on the cost/time scenario selected. Our model helps get the land part funded and creates room for both Environmental Stewardship and Outcome based crediting.
Attached is an example of a demo site consisting of 100 acres of river, wetlands, & forest in the Southeast Savannas & Riparian Forests Bioregion.
Annual RealValue: $1,094,101
Natural Cap Rate: 166% on Real Asset value of $660k
Please post comments / questions below or reach out if you are needing to express the Value of the Benefits your project provides or if you have a site you want to permanently protect.