Capital for Environmental Markets
EKO is a specialized investment firm focused on discovering and monetizing unrealized or unrecognized environmental assets. We do this by matching smart capital with people, projects, and companies that are poised to profit from new and emerging environmental markets (markets for carbon, water, and biodiversity). In doing so, EKO hopes not only to harness the power of capital markets and help allocate resources to their "highest and best" ecological use, but also to help preserve ecosystems for future generations. EKO is, in short, a "merchant bank" for the world of environmental markets.
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EKO was founded in January of 2008 by a team composed of professionals experienced in environmental markets, banking, and investment management. Our founding shareholders include Wolfensohn & Co and several other family offices and investment firms with an interest in environmental assets.
What's In a Name
EKO—whose name pays homage to the common etymological root of both ecology and economics—was born of the belief that the world is currently in the midst of a fundamental economic transformation, one where nature and nature's services are going from being essentially unappreciated and undervalued, to one where they will become central to long-term economic health. The environment, in other words, is going from being a barrier to economic growth to being an intrinsic building block of value.
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