Plugging business into the global agenda:: The platform for environmental investment
- Autores: PJ Marshall
- Localización: Global Education Magazine, ISSN-e 2255-033X, Nº. 13, 2015
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Restore the Earth Foundation, Inc. (REF) is a social investment partner for corporations that value the Earth’s natural resources. Founded in 2010, we are a global nongovernmental organization that deploys landscape-scale ecosystem restoration projects and measures and reports the impact. Our exclusive Shared Value Platform accounts, in monetary terms, for the social return on investment (SROI) – the combination of direct and indirect financial benefits – produced from our restoration projects. We provide corporations that are seeking to reduce their carbon footprint with the business case to engage in environmental sustainability projects that produce reductions in atmospheric carbon, along with water-borne nitrogen and phosphorous. The Shared Value Platform, designed to map with international standards of ecosystem restoration and integrated accounting, is an offer, a resource, a game changer, for corporations on the cusp of reinventing sustainability programs. For every $1 invested by our corporate partners, the Platform accounts for more than $9 in environmental, social, and economic returns. While a large portion of this return can be directly assigned to the funders in the form of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous mitigation credits; a significant portion of the return can be recognized as intangible assets on the funder’s balance sheet. We work closely with forward-thinking leaders of corporations, aligning the accomplishment of sustainability goals with growing operational revenue. Our purpose is to enable corporations to take action to restore our Earth. Thus, we provide the global business case for cleaner air, cleaner water, and community resiliency.
