Deep Dive: Biodiversity Credit Demand - by Simas Gradeckas

To call something a market, we need two things: 1) people who want to sell some product and 2) people who, well, want to buy it. For voluntary biodiversity markets, the buying piece of the puzzle is the elephant in the room. I’ve been procrastinating on writing a proper piece about the biodiversity credit demand for way too long. And for the right reasons, as I soon found out. So many opinions, such a gnarly topic. Well, time to chip in. Thanks for reading Bloom Labs! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Traditionally, some disclaimers: Firstly, I don’t have all the answers. By actually exploring the biodiversity market demand, we can end up in the philosophical debate land surprisingly quickly. Here, I’m just sharing my learnings and perspective. And this time, I optimized for “useful” and “accessible” instead of “exhaustive”. This perspective, by definition, is full of holes. I’m aware of some and probably unaware of many more. My only hope is that this work h

To call something a market, we need two things: 1) people who want to sell some product and 2) people who, well, want to buy it. For voluntary biodiversity markets, the buying piece of the puzzle is the elephant in the room. I’ve been procrastinating on writing a proper piece about the biodiversity credit demand for way too long. And for the right reasons, as I soon found out. So many opinions, such a gnarly topic. Well, time to chip in. Thanks for reading Bloom Labs! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Traditionally, some disclaimers: Firstly, I don’t have all the ans