Private Sector Solutions for Climate & Nature

TNC’s Impact Finance and Markets (IFM) Team
Market leaders and policymakers increasingly recognize the private sector’s vital role in achieving a nature-positive, net-zero future. The Nature Conservancy’s IFM team leverages in-house expertise to collaborate with companies and investors, advancing impact investing and sustainable market solutions that align financial performance with environmental impact. IFM helps unlock private capital for nature.
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Unlocking Private Capital for a Nature-Positive Future
As the urgency of the climate and biodiversity crises intensifies, the private sector is increasingly recognized as a key player in delivering the capital, innovation, and scale needed to meet global sustainability goals. TNC understands that public funding and philanthropy alone cannot close the financing gap for nature and climate. That’s why the Impact Finance and Markets team is working at the intersection of conservation and capital markets to unlock private investment for high-impact, nature-based solutions.
The private sector’s role is not just about funding—it’s about transforming business models to integrate sustainability into core operations. TNC’s experts help companies, industries, and policy makers understand the financial and material risks and innovative opportunities associated with biodiversity loss and climate change and supports them in developing forward-looking strategies that value nature.
TNC’s approach is grounded in science, informed by decades of on-the-ground conservation experience, and designed to deliver measurable outcomes for both nature and people. TNC collaborates with investors, financial institutions, corporations, and governments to design and implement innovative financial solutions that channel capital into conservation efforts. These include Nature Bonds, blended finance structures, impact investing, sustainable agriculture and forestry investments, and supporting the development of high-integrity carbon markets that incentivize emissions reductions and ecosystem restoration.
This work is especially critical in emerging markets, where natural resources are abundant, but the funding and tools needed to protect these resources may be limited. The team supports projects that deliver climate resilience, protect biodiversity, and improve livelihoods working across corporate and investor sectors to embed sustainability into core strategies and operations. From regenerative agriculture in the U.S. and Latin America to conservation tourism in Africa, TNC’s impact investing initiatives are demonstrating that conservation can be both financially viable and socially inclusive.
The Impact Finance and Markets team is also helping to lead a transition toward a low-carbon, nature-positive future by advancing robust carbon credit standards and nature-based carbon projects ensuring that carbon markets contribute meaningfully to climate and nature goals; by building the science-informed financial infrastructure, private market collaborations, and investment pipelines needed to scale conservation finance; and by pioneering sovereign debt solutions – such as Nature Bonds – that align national financial priorities with conservation outcomes.
The path to a thriving planet runs through the private sector, and with the right tools and incentives, businesses and investors can be powerful allies in securing a sustainable future for all.

Corporate Engagement
We work with industry-leading companies across the globe to help them integrate sustainability into their business models, create more resilient supply chains, and ultimately change how companies value nature.
Impact Investing
We help source, structure, fund, and close investment deals that aim to generate environmental, social and financial returns. To date, our portfolio represents over $3.5 billion in impact capital across multiple asset types and geographies.


Carbon Markets
We are working to scale natural climate solutions as a crucial component of the world achieving net-zero. Our aim is to create a global portfolio of high-quality carbon projects and drive systemic improvements across the carbon markets.
Sustainable Debt
We help governments refinance national debt, creating sustainable funding to support conservation and climate commitments. To date, we’ve helped unlock an estimated $400 million for conservation in six countries, and more opportunities lie ahead.
IFM Leadership Team
IFM Advisory Board
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Stewart Lindsay
Vice President, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Campbell Soup Company
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Kathleen McLaughlin
Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart Inc; President, Walmart Foundation
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Bruce McNamer
President, The Builders Initiative
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Jennifer Morris
Chief Executive Officer, The Nature Conservancy
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Liesel Pritzker Simmons
Co-Founder and Principal, Blue Haven Initiative
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David M. Rice
Founder, New Home Star
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Christine Anderson
Global Head of Corporate Affairs, Blackstone
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Tom Patterson
Managing Partner, Madrone Capital Partners
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Ian McIntosh
Former Chief Executive of Netherlands-based Louis Dreyfus Co
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Kent Thiry
Former Chairman and CEO, DaVita
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Matt Arnold
Chairman of the Board, Global Head, Impact Finance and Markets, The Nature Conservancy
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Neel Broker
Chief Operating Officer, The Nature Conservancy
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Jason W. Haggins
Sall Family Foundation, Executive Director
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Jaya Balasubramaniam
Strategic Investments and Innovation Advisor
IFM Advisory Board Directory
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Meet the Advisory Board
IFM’s Advisory Board is composed of distinguished professionals who bring a wealth of experience and expertise to guide IFM’s strategy.
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Our Goals for 2030
TNC has set ambitious goals over the next decade to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Achieving these goals is a massive undertaking that requires the collaboration of countless partners, communities, funders, governments, and businesses. We use scientific and market expertise to develop innovative conservation approaches, which can be scaled up to achieve system-wide change.
How Can IFM Help You?
Business operations have a huge impact on our planet. Whether you're an investor, business owner, policymaker, or market influencer, IFM can help you incorporate nature-positive solutions into your decision-making. Let's work together for nature.

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