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I'll get it when you run it. Mauricio didn't want to run. Doesn't quite have that killer sales instinct yet.
Today on the show, we follow budding salesman Mauricio Serna on his quest to make a market for this newish financial instrument, the biodiversity credit. And we peek under the hood to try to figure out how these credits actually work. Is the hype around them a bunch of hot air? Or could they be a critical tool for saving thousands of species around the world?
Today on the show, we follow budding salesman Mauricio Serna on his quest to make a market for this newish financial instrument, the biodiversity credit. And we peek under the hood to try to figure out how these credits actually work. Is the hype around them a bunch of hot air? Or could they be a critical tool for saving thousands of species around the world?
Today on the show, we follow budding salesman Mauricio Serna on his quest to make a market for this newish financial instrument, the biodiversity credit. And we peek under the hood to try to figure out how these credits actually work. Is the hype around them a bunch of hot air? Or could they be a critical tool for saving thousands of species around the world?
Bust out the marmalade sandwiches. As any Planet Money listener will know, the way we often try to understand some obscure, newfangled financial instrument is to just buy one, get some skin in the game.
Bust out the marmalade sandwiches. As any Planet Money listener will know, the way we often try to understand some obscure, newfangled financial instrument is to just buy one, get some skin in the game.
Bust out the marmalade sandwiches. As any Planet Money listener will know, the way we often try to understand some obscure, newfangled financial instrument is to just buy one, get some skin in the game.
For listeners who haven't watched the Paddington movies, first, I'm sorry for your loss. What you need to know is that these bears are the only ones in South America. They are dangerously cute with little white circles around their eyes, hence the name. And some ecologists argue they're kind of an umbrella species. If you protect them, you know you're protecting a bunch of other species.
For listeners who haven't watched the Paddington movies, first, I'm sorry for your loss. What you need to know is that these bears are the only ones in South America. They are dangerously cute with little white circles around their eyes, hence the name. And some ecologists argue they're kind of an umbrella species. If you protect them, you know you're protecting a bunch of other species.
For listeners who haven't watched the Paddington movies, first, I'm sorry for your loss. What you need to know is that these bears are the only ones in South America. They are dangerously cute with little white circles around their eyes, hence the name. And some ecologists argue they're kind of an umbrella species. If you protect them, you know you're protecting a bunch of other species.
It's a plot of land owned by Mauricio's family high up in the tropical Andes of Colombia. They call the place El Globo, or the balloon, because, they like to joke, it was so remote that for a long time the only way to get there was by hot air balloon.
It's a plot of land owned by Mauricio's family high up in the tropical Andes of Colombia. They call the place El Globo, or the balloon, because, they like to joke, it was so remote that for a long time the only way to get there was by hot air balloon.
It's a plot of land owned by Mauricio's family high up in the tropical Andes of Colombia. They call the place El Globo, or the balloon, because, they like to joke, it was so remote that for a long time the only way to get there was by hot air balloon.
He says a couple centuries ago, this whole area was mature forest, full of yellow-eared parrots and these super rare alma negra trees that translates to black soul trees, kind of metal. And of course, plenty of Paddington's bear.
He says a couple centuries ago, this whole area was mature forest, full of yellow-eared parrots and these super rare alma negra trees that translates to black soul trees, kind of metal. And of course, plenty of Paddington's bear.
He says a couple centuries ago, this whole area was mature forest, full of yellow-eared parrots and these super rare alma negra trees that translates to black soul trees, kind of metal. And of course, plenty of Paddington's bear.
For a while, they were some of the biggest landowners in the area. And apparently, they were super good at cutting down trees.