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A photo of the Lower Brule reservation, courtesy Jerry Huddleston via Flickr Creative Commons.

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.

The Connecticut Green Bank sees potential for capital flows from greenspace like this New Haven park.

States around the nation are changing laws to clarify and speed up financing for natural climate solutions. Now Green Bank CEO Bryan Garcia and his team are looking for a senior team member to crystallize and underwrite the strategy. Garcia says it’d be the first time the green bank has...

The Defense Department helps this Minnesota wolf defend its turf. (Photo by Julie DeJong, Minnesota DNR, via the US Army Flickr feed.)

The United States' military apparatus depends on stable land for security at its sites. A partnership with land trusts and other stewards makes conservation hay from that conviction.

Delaware farm — Farm in Georgetown, Delaware / Michele Dorsey Walfred / CC BY-SA 2.0

Organizations across the country, and across land types, are working to implement aggregation projects to help family forest owners, small farmers, and all those who own smaller parcels of land. These projects serve farmer whose priorities may differ internally and in comparison to commercial operations.

Recovery across the world came before a panel of experts at Yale in January. — The International Society for Tropical Forestry’s 2022 conference at Yale emphasized scale and the importance of COVID-19 recovery efforts for the “Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.”

In looking at forest restoration finance in a tropical context, three experts at a Yale-sponsored panel spoke of clearer images from space and more inclusive planning on the ground.

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