16 JUNE 2026
ALSiSAR Impact calls for a fundamental rethink of how climate finance values the natural wealth held by indigenous communities across the Himalayas and Northeast India
ALSiSAR Impact calls for a fundamental rethink of how climate finance values the natural wealth held by indigenous communities across the Himalayas and Northeast India
BONN, Germany — As climate negotiators gather at UNFCCC SB64 this week, ALSiSAR Impact — an ecosystem development and capacity building organisation, and a trusted voice in impact investing and advisory across South Asia — is raising an uncomfortable question at the heart of the climate finance conversation: why can global markets price a luxury watch to the last decimal, but cannot price a glacier at all? We know the real-time value of a Prada bag. A Ferrari. A Rolex. Our financial systems are extraordinary at this. And yet a forest regulating the subcontinent's climate for millennia, a Himalayan watershed feeding a billion people, a freshwater source an entire mountain community depends on — is priced, effectively, at zero. That is not a data gap. It is a design choice. And it is the defining market failure of the climate transition.
BONN, Germany — As climate negotiators gather at UNFCCC SB64 this week, ALSiSAR Impact — an ecosystem development and capacity building organisation, and a trusted voice in impact investing and advisory across South Asia — is raising an uncomfortable question at the heart of the climate finance conversation: why can global markets price a luxury watch to the last decimal, but cannot price a glacier at all? We know the real-time value of a Prada bag. A Ferrari. A Rolex. Our financial systems are extraordinary at this. And yet a forest regulating the subcontinent's climate for millennia, a Himalayan watershed feeding a billion people, a freshwater source an entire mountain community depends on — is priced, effectively, at zero. That is not a data gap. It is a design choice. And it is the defining market failure of the climate transition.
BONN, Germany — As climate negotiators gather at UNFCCC SB64 this week, ALSiSAR Impact — an ecosystem development and capacity building organisation, and a trusted voice in impact investing and advisory across South Asia — is raising an uncomfortable question at the heart of the climate finance conversation: why can global markets price a luxury watch to the last decimal, but cannot price a glacier at all? We know the real-time value of a Prada bag. A Ferrari. A Rolex. Our financial systems are extraordinary at this. And yet a forest regulating the subcontinent's climate for millennia, a Himalayan watershed feeding a billion people, a freshwater source an entire mountain community depends on — is priced, effectively, at zero. That is not a data gap. It is a design choice. And it is the defining market failure of the climate transition.
