Trading Nature:  Frontier markets, biodiversity credits with Drea Burbank

Historically trading has been a place of peace. Savimbo is a modern day ‘fair trade post’ launching a frontier market where protectors of nature are valued and paid- fairly.

Drea Burbank, CEO is co-founder of Savimbo, a climate finance social enterprise helping Indigenous Peoples and local communities access markets that value nature, like biodiversity and carbon, directly.

Savimbo structures transparent, results based fair contracts that pay the people who actually protect forests. We talk about why many legacy systems -like REDD, have failed to deliver real conservation outcomes.

This conversation offers a practical look at generative economics, Indigenous land rights, frontier markets that value nature, and the emerging vision of a solarpunk future.

We explore:

• Biodiversity credits versus carbon credits

• Why voluntary carbon markets have failed

• Indigenous led conservation

• Results based nature finance 

• Frontier markets and biodiversity credits

• The Ecological Benefits Framework for real world impact reporting

• Colonial finance structures 

• Rights of Nature 

• Indigenous governance systems

• Solarpunk as visionary thought-form

• How businesses and consumers can support direct forest conservation

About Drea Burbank

Drea is a digital nomad, mostly in places where they grow bananas. She is the CEO of Savimbo, a social enterprise made by, and for, Indigenous Peoples and local communities to access climate markets directly.  

Her international team of 300+ delinquent savants hacks climate markets to support jungle smallfarmers and Indigenous groups who conserve and reforest. She’s addicted to yoga, passionate about creation, and prone to profanity or poetry — sometimes both.

Savimbo is a social enterprise made by, and for, Indigenous Peoples and local communities to access climate markets directly. We stop deforestation and sell six climate products biodiversity, carbon, tree, and water credits, ecotourism, and agrobiodiversity crops. Our charitable arm helps communities with land rights, literacy, and living conditions.

🔗 Connect with Drea Burbank

🌐 Website | https://www.savimbo.com/

🌐 Drea’s personal site | https://www.dreaburbank.com/

🔗 Links Mentioned:

‘On Bullshit’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

Ecological Benefits Framework (soil, air, water, biodiversity, carbon, equity @ Canyouchangethefuture.org)

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