This webinar will ask: what sort of finance is needed to support a move to a regenerative agriculture system that makes food production a net positive?. It will draw on over a year’s worth of discussions and explore new questions.
With the International Land Conservation Network, CFN offers a handbook for handling gatherings to boost impact.
When we talk about the scale and complexity of intractable social and environmental problems, we are speaking of issues that require collective action. These challenges demand that we step beyond individual mission statements and business models to craft strategies, chart paths forward, and unlock scaled impact—together. A new guide draws...
District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) created an innovative municipal bond that covers the downside risk of using green infrastructure to control stormwater runoff. By offloading risk of green infrastructure to investors, the utility created financing for a new approach- and time to get right. Now other...
Boot camp can mean the start of a long, uphill financial journey.
I’m someone who has always seen conservation as the work done by field biologists on restoration properties and in wildlife rehabilitation centers. As I sat through sessions on debt and ratios, I couldn’t help but think to myself “are all these numbers really that important?” It turns out: yes they...
How does Atlanta's Proctor Creek connect to national water management and worldwide carbon mitigation? The same way conversations about small projects connect to global biodiversity breakthroughs. / Shawn Taylor / CC BY 2.0
How can professionals who devote their lives to sustaining real places connect in virtual space? Judging from the 2021
Boot Camp, pretty intensely. Digital again for the first time, the 2021 Conservation Finance Boot Camp drew over 120 professionals from at least six time zones to learn proven...
The
Network, in partnership with the Yale Center for Business and Environment and Highstead, is pleased to host the Conservation Finance Virtual Boot Camp July 13 – July 15, 2021. This Virtual Boot Camp will explore the latest trends and strategies in funding and financing being put to work for land and natural resource conservation, restoration, and stewardship. With an emphasis on hands-on tools and lessons from relevant case studies, we will explore innovative and overlooked opportunities. Recordings of the webinars will be publicly available on our website at a later date. Registration Fee: $60 This fee will help us continue to grow our programming. If the ticket price is cost-prohibitive for your attendance, please contact Helen Rogers. Agenda Day 1 – Tuesday, July 13th Session 1: The Evolution and Next Era of Conservation Funding & Financing [2:00 - 3:00 pm ET ] What exactly is conservation finance? Which approaches are well established, and what does emerging activity and innovation entail? This session will provide an overview of how conservation finance approaches have evolved, exploring current trends and a range of funding and financing strategies being put to work for land and resource conservation, restoration, and stewardship. Moderator...
Risks and opportunities in natural ecosystems will prove a lot harder to count.
The understanding has spread that companies face risks and opportunities in nature, just as they do in competitive markets or under certain regulations. In that context, a new group called the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) aims to broaden and deepen investors' interest in details from companies about...
(Courtesy Julius Pasay of the Climate Trust.) When delicate landscapes like Oregon's Zumwalt Prairie comprise the asset, the off-take partner needs to pass rigorous review.
This op/ed builds off the Enduring Arches: Building
Projects for Impact report. Gordian Knot Strategies developed that report in collaboration with the Conservation Finance Network and with the generous support of the Walton Family Foundation. The full report can be accessed here. This op/ed originally ran on ImpactAlpha...
How do you think about what makes investors, conservation professionals and members of the public better off? For the authors of a new report, this question sparked an intellectual inquiry that led to a new language for thinking about what gives a project value. The language builds off the framework...
Huge corporations have promised to zero out their carbon impact, so prices for natural carbon sinks should see upward pressure starting now. Three forest carbon finance specialists thrash out three paths to success, navigating standards and science and the occasional drag that comes with creating a marketplace in the midst...
