Targeted dividend reinvestment plans and methods of establishing same

A method of establishing a targeted dividend reinvestment plan associated with environmental management projects, the method comprising the steps of:

• a) providing a dividend reinvestment plan, wherein the dividend reinvestment plan facilitates investment of funds of investors participating therein;
• b) identifying at least one environmental management project;
• c) generating at least one financial security associated with the at least one environmental management project, each financial security being a financial instrument having associated therewith at least one instrument identifier that identifies the financial instrument;
• d) receiving a direction, from each of one or more investors participating in the dividend reinvestment plan, to invest at least a subset of the funds of the respective investor through a purchase by the investor of one or more of the at least one financial security associated with the at least one environmental management project;
• e) issuing one or more of the at least one financial security associated with the at least one environmental management project to each investor from which a direction is received;
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• f) allocating the at least a subset of funds of each investor from which a direction is received to the at least one environmental management project.