key challenges
governments face mounting infrastructure costs and climate adaptation mandates with constrained budgets and limited tools for funding ecosystem-based solutions.
infrastructure stress
aging gray infrastructure requires costly maintenance and replacement, while climate change increases demand beyond original design capacity.
disaster recovery costs
post-disaster spending consumes budgets while doing nothing to address the underlying drivers of increasing losses.
unfunded mandates
water quality, flood protection, and climate adaptation requirements often lack dedicated funding streams.
fragmented authority
natural systems cross jurisdictional boundaries, making coordinated watershed or landscape-scale interventions difficult to fund and govern.
how ensurance helps
fund green infrastructure—wetlands, forests, floodplains—that provides public services at lower lifecycle costs than gray alternatives
attract private capital to nature-based solutions through ensurance certificates that generate returns while delivering public benefits
implement watershed-scale interventions that address water quality and flood risk across jurisdictional boundaries
establish MRV systems that document cost savings and justify ongoing investment in natural infrastructure
create resilience corridors that reduce disaster costs and protect critical infrastructure
relevant services
BASIN services tailored for governments
nature finance & valuation
risk & resilience services
use cases
real-world scenarios for governments
municipal watershed protection
a city issues ensurance certificates for source watershed forests, attracting institutional investors to fund permanent protection while reducing water treatment costs.
regional flood mitigation
a county partners with upstream landowners to restore floodplain storage through ensurance, funded by downstream property owners who benefit from reduced flood risk.
state wildfire strategy
a state leverages ensurance syndicates to fund large-scale fuel reduction across priority landscapes, combining federal grants with private capital.
climate adaptation planning
a coastal community develops a climate adaptation plan that prioritizes ensurance-funded natural infrastructure—dune restoration, living shorelines, urban forests.
ensurance instruments
the tools that power your natural capital strategy
specific certificates
certificates tied to individual natural assets with defined locations & attributes
general coins
coins for broad ecosystem support & indirect natural capital funding
syndicates
shared groups pooling capital around specific natural capital objectives