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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.) 

Report From an Agroforesty Project Sheds Light on Smallholder Carbon Strategies

Ritika Jain
May 17, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Forest
  • Habitat
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
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...

Staking the State of Nature, With Data and Urgency

Dimitria Spathakis
March 21, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Forest
  • Fresh Water
  • Habitat
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Oceans
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
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...

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

Grace Cajski
March 21, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Blended Finance
  • Climate
  • Impact Investing
  • Oceans
  • Public Policy
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...
Abyssinian Roller Bird

An Incomplete Guide to Biodiversity Credits, Part One

Jinsui (Jazzy) Song
February 14, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Impact Investing
  • Public Policy
Traditional biodiversity credits give financial value to investments in projects that offset regional biodiversity losses. A biocredit is a unit of biodiversity value created through interventions to conserve, restore or sustainably manage a local site. It is the unification of positive change (or “uplift”) in biodiversity conditions, approximated by place-based...
Elizabeth Schuster, Environmental Economist, Sustainable Economies Consulting

Elizabeth Schuster, Environmental Economist, Sustainable Economies Consulting

Partners Unite to Share Lessons Around Regenerative Agriculture, Forestry, and Conservation

Leigh Whelpton
February 09, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Forest
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Policy
The Network (CFN) convened partners for their 10th CFN Roundtable, hosted in Durham, NC on November 2-3, 2022. The roundtable brought together nearly 70 practitioners representing nonprofit organizations, foundations, private sector firms, governmental agencies, and universities. The event was organized around nine different panels on a variety of...
Colorado forest

Conservation Finance Learning Lab Recap, Part One: What's a Carbon Market?

Katie Michels
February 08, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Climate
  • Forest
  • Impact Investing
  • Public Policy
In this session, panelists from a variety of organizations described their engagement in carbon markets. Spencer Meyer, Head of Science at the carbon-exchange company NCX, moderated a Zoom panel of professionals from not-for-profits, for-profits, carbon project developers, carbon project sellers, and more. Steph Harris, Director of Carbon Markets at carbon...
CFN Boot Camp

Apply for CFN's 2023 Boot Camp, In Person at Yale University

January 20, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Impact Investing
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
CFN is pleased to announce our 17th annual Boot Camp will be held June 5-9, 2023, at the Yale School of the Environment in New Haven, CT, in partnership with the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. The Boot Camp is a week-long intensive workshop that helps mid-career professionals...
Getting closer than the pebbles in this stream

Remote technology can carry data faster and finer than humans in the field reliably can. (Photo by ihamr via Flickr Creative Commons.) 

Detecting Change in Conservation: The Value of Remote Sensing

Sam Feibel
January 18, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Habitat
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
The value in land increases when you conserve it- but conserved land grows and moves in many ways. Large and small land-stewardship organizations are investing in remote technology for clearer, more investable pictures of what they're conserving. And investors are learning a new language.
Nobody in conservation finance can fly far who flies alone

Photo by Dhrvaraj S, via Flickr Creative Commons. 

Centering People at the Heart of Nature-Based Carbon Projects

Stanley Tan
December 14, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Habitat
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Oceans
Countries and companies are indeed looking to restore forests and other ecosystems to offset carbon output. Nature-based carbon projects protect or restore ecosystems, like a tropical forest in Indonesia, and generate carbon credits based on the emissions avoided or sequestered. Typically, third-party developers put these projects together for implementation by...
A photo of the Lower Brule reservation, courtesy Jerry Huddleston via Flickr Creative Commons.

Take in the view of the Lower Brule reservation, courtesy Jerry Huddleston via Flickr Creative Commons. 

Yale Forest Forum Highlights: Carbon Projects for Indigenous Forest Owners

Katie Michels
November 14, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Forest
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Policy
Bryan Van Stippen’s talk started with an assertion: Tribal nations must “not let their natural resource assets benefit others before they benefit their own communities.” The National Indian Carbon Coalition (NICC) views carbon projects as both economic development and natural resource stewardship opportunities in response to historic extraction and theft.

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