There have been many attempts to apply financial calculations to the more-than-human and environmental externalities of capital since the 1990s, but most have proved partial and incomplete as humans have struggled to find calculative logics which can underpin financialisation processes at frontiers with the natural world. While the animism of the more-than-human has combined with specific human agents to resist financialisation, pressures from capital-holders to create income and rents from other species and their habitats has continued in a sequence of largely unsatisfactory experiments. This paper explores the financialisation experiments attempted at the environmental frontier, alongside resistances that have been both innate and intended, where capitalist financial valuation meets other species and plants, with a particular focus on recent initiatives in climate change mitigation and insurance.

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