
Following on the Presidential Memorandum from November 3, 2015, private sector environmental investment firms including Ecosystem Investment Partners met at the White House this past Monday to announce $2 billion in new investments. EIP provides a leading example of for-profit investment in conservation and restoration that addresses public objectives and requirements by making efficient use of private capital, and the newly formed EIP III with $303 million of equity capital committments was featured in the White House Fact Sheet released for the event.