We’re excited to launch our new Ecosystem Roundup, a quarterly update on ecosystem markets. In this edition, we spotlight key carbon market developments and trends, highlight promising projects from the field, and feature an interview with The Climate Trust. Looking ahead, we’ll explore biodiversity credits and mitigation markets as well...
Creative Uses of Clean Water State Revolving Funds for Conservation and Restoration Three case studies describe how CWSRFs were used to fund land protection and restoration efforts, and the roles of different partners in making these projects happen in Huntington, VT, Washington state, and Camden, NJ. These case studies were...
Case Study Charles Etok Edwardsen Jr. Mitigation Bank Protecting critical aquatic resources in northern Alaska By James Freeman, Yale School of the Environment May 2025 Problem The North Slope of Alaska is an ecologically sensitive region that is home to the Inupiat people, an indigenous tribe known for their...
Case Study When Private Capital Meets Public Waters A Market-Based Approach to Stream Restoration in the Chesapeake Watershed By Kemi Kakonge-Ruyondo, Yale School of the Environment May 2025 Problem The Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the U.S., has suffered from historic nutrient pollution, sedimentation, and land use changes. Cecil...
Case Study Big Sandy Mitigation Bank Reviving Kentucky’s Streams: A Market-Driven Solution for Lasting Restoration By Toby Bokum-Fauth, Yale School of the Environment May 2025 Problem Many streams in eastern Kentucky suffer from artificial straightening, erosion, and lost riparian buffers, degrading water quality and habitat. New development projects add further...
Conservation Finance Network Boot Camp 2025 In Brief The 20th annual Conservation Finance Boot Camp, hosted at the Yale School of the Environment in partnership with the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and with sponsorship support from the Connecticut Green Bank, brought together 39 conservation practitioners to learn...
Grassland carbon markets may be small, but they provide a way to finance the protection of ranchlands while sequestering carbon. In this recorded webinar, Travis Croft, Program Manager at the Climate Trust, talks about the differences between the forest and grassland carbon markets and describes a recent carbon credit transaction...
CFN’s Mary Powers and Saskia Braden recently sat down with Julius Pasay, Executive Director of The Climate Trust, for a conversation on the challenges and opportunities shaping today’s forest carbon market. Their discussion explored key market trends, hurdles facing landowners and project developers, and innovative approaches to making carbon finance...
On November 12-13, 2024, the Conservation Finance Network hosted our 13th annual Conservation Finance Roundtable in Denver, Colorado, in collaboration with the Salazar Center for North American Conservation and with support from the Gates Family Foundation. The overall event agenda is available here, and the article that follows summarizes key takeaways...
The 2024 United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, informally known as “COP 16,” was intended to focus on implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s goals to preserve 30% of the earth’s lands and waters by 2030 and secure $200B in annual commitments by 2030...
