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This past June, our team held the 17th Boot Camp at Yale University in New Haven, CT in partnership with the Center for Business and Environment and the Yale School of the Environment. The event was an especially memorable event as we returned to Yale’s School of the...

Eighty-five practitioners from across the United States came to Chicago in April, 2023 to attend the Network roundtable. The two-day meeting was full of presentations on innovative projects taking place at multiple scales, in different geographies, and led by nonprofit, public, and private entities. The roundtable featured a...

A tree in Guatemala, courtesy "RS" on Flickr — Which way will Guatemala and other carbon markets where smallholders dominate grow? (Photo by RS, courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons.)

A green sanctuary in the heart of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, Finca Chimelb hums with the melody of melodious blackbirds and chatter among local laborers. Spanning 4,751 hectares, the farm consists of rolling hills lined with high-value crops, such as cacao, specialty coffee, and cardamom, paired with rubber trees and other...

The United Nations Water conference, March 2023 — The author's view of the UN Water Conference.

In many parts of the world, clean water is still an untapped market – but a flow of innovative finance is beginning to change this. Currently, the United Nations estimates that between $182 billion to over $600 billion annually is needed to address the global water crisis. Worldwide, millions of...

Food companies have started to incorporate regenerative agriculture into their sustainability strategies and supply chains - it’s an important buzzword today for companies, but how are they defining it? And what are they doing to support farmers in the transition? I spoke with Daily Harvest - the plant-based meal delivery...

A March 24 dispatch from a radio station in Wisconsin's North Woods traces opposite trajectories in the volume of people exploring the outdoors and the volume of state funding for public lands.

This March 23 story relays a study showing that new tropical forest planting reversed 26% of the carbon harm from logging and deforestation.

In December 2022 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) advocated urgency for an expedited 2025 timeline to more than double finance flows in nature-based solutions (NbS) to limit climate change to below 1.5°C, halt biodiversity loss, and achieve land degradation neutrality. UNEP published the second edition of its “State of...

Seaweed—as a food source and beyond—has the potential to be profitable and sustainable, while supporting culturally important cuisines and strengthening the base of the marine food web. Recently, interest in cultivating seaweed, especially in the United States, has grown—but anyone interested in growing seaweed, investing in it, or processing it...

This March 15 story details how some American Indian organizers are working to parley verbal "land acknowledgments" into financial relationships.

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The Conservation Finance Boot Camp 2023

Chicago 2023 Conservation Finance Roundtable Recap

Report From an Agroforesty Project Sheds Light on Smallholder Carbon Strategies

Funding Clean Water for All at the United Nations Water Conference

The Rise of Regenerative Agriculture: How Food Companies are Catalyzing Regenerative Farming Practices

Less Money, More Hikers, More...

One in Four Needs a Lot More

Staking the State of Nature, With Data and Urgency

Deep in the Weeds: Panel Pursues "Seagriculture" Investment Models

Land-Acknowledgment Talk is Cheap