Our Values
The name ‘Ekos’ comes from the ancient Greek word ‘Oikos’, which is the common ancestor for the modern words ‘ecology’ and ‘economy’. Ekos is a marriage of ecology and economics for building a sustainable future.
If you cannot finance your dream you only get to dream
The Climate Policy Initiative estimates that the funding needed to deliver net zero carbon globally is US$6 trillion annually to 2030 and will rise to US$7 trillion annually by 2050. An additional US$600-$800 billion is needed each year to solve the global biodiversity crisis according to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
This is scale of money is an order of magnitude more than what taxpayers and philanthropists can afford.
This is why private sector investment is fundamental to meeting the climate and biodiversity challenge in the coming decades. This is also why Ekos works with market-based mechanisms to look after the place.
A core ingredient that made the Industrial Revolution do so much damage to the Earth was not profits, but super-profits.
Without profits, private suppliers of goods and services go out of business and cannot supply jobs to support families, and taxes to support governments. But super-profits funnel money into deep inequalities and starve the world of the money needed to deliver a sustainable future.
While we are technically a ‘for profit’ company, profit maximisation is not our purpose. We are a social purpose business and focus our attention on engaging with markets to harness financial resources for climate action, biodiversity conservation, and sustainability.