$7Bn a year for nature needed, yet we spend $6 trillion subsidizing its destruction.
We keep saying the world needs $700 billion a year for nature. But we're asking the wrong question - the money exists !
What's missing is the plumbing.
Consider this: governments spend roughly $6 trillion a year on subsidies that actively degrade nature — draining wetlands, exhausting soils, emptying oceans. We are paying to break the very asset we then hold telethons and crowdfunding to repair.
So the gap isn't capital. It's the absence of investable, trustworthy places for capital to land: real pipeline, credible standards, and structures the people who live on the land actually trust. Sarnian Group, Inc and Fellow Future are helping to bridge that gap through our Regenera Natural Capital.
Because the other failure mode is just as real. Nature finance that arrives as a land-grab — returns flowing out, risk staying local — buys resentment, not restoration. And resentment is not a durable asset.
The work, then, is unglamorous and decisive: build the pipeline, set the standards, and structure benefit-sharing so the community closest to the resource is an owner, not a bystander.
That's the plumbing. It is less exciting than a headline fund. It is also the only thing that makes the headline fund work. The nature economy won't be won by whoever holds the most capital — but by whoever can structure it so it actually lands.
This piece was written for and first published by AgriNexus, the Group's agricultural investment intelligence venture. The original is canonical.