Insights

We publish our arguments rather than hold them.

Environmental finance does not suffer from a shortage of proprietary method. It suffers from a shortage of structures that survive scrutiny. AeonLoop publishes the reasoning behind its work so that clients, counsel, and counterparties can test it before they rely on it.

Featured

Insight 01

The problem is the packaging, not the tonne.

Roughly thirty years after Kyoto, capital has not moved into environmental assets at anything approaching the scale the transition requires. The usual explanations point at integrity, methodology, and price. The binding constraint is somewhere less interesting and far more fixable.

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Series

No New Parts

A sixteen-part series on how environmental assets can be packaged in terms the capital markets already understand, written for readers who are not carbon specialists.

01Framing Is EverythingCarbon credits are an idea. What they are worth, and who will hold them, is decided by the frame you interpret them through.02The Commodity Dead EndEveryone treats carbon credits as commodities. Almost nobody remembers deciding to. What that inherited choice costs, and how oil escaped it.

Working paper

An Origination Program for Carbon-Linked Securities

AeonLoop's working paper specifies the legal and financial architecture in full: dual-registry custody, corresponding adjustment treated as a sovereign covenant rather than as paperwork, permanence and reversal risk allocated by contract, and a book-entry wrapper that carries the unit into institutional portfolios without changing what is inside it.

The paper is provided to governments, institutions, and their advisers on request.

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