… Conservation Finance Network: Where Conservation Meets Capital More and more, the conservation community is recognizing that traditional funding models can’t keep pace with … Management 2022 Alumni Wilder Person Portfolio Management Analyst at BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group Master of Environmental Management 2021 Alumni Rachael Ross Master of …
… Classroom 4400 Moderator: Dan Rourke, Calvert Investments Gianfranco Gianfrate, EDHEC Business School – Does Climate Change Affect … at Goldman Sachs. During his nine-year tenure there, he was co-founder of both their North American and European power and natural gas businesses, creating both Constellation and … Dialogue. Before that, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for the Western Hemisphere and as Director of the Office of Policy at the U.S. Agency for …
… Over the course of the webinar, Leigh Madeira (Blue Forest Conservation) and Nathalie Woolworth (U.S. Forest Service) will provide invaluable insight from the field on current and prospective investment strategies aimed at growing the health and resilience of forests – an especially … financing mechanism that serves as a public-private partnership to enhance forest restoration. She will also discuss the exciting recent launch of the FRB’s pilot project, …
… March 4th 12pm EST. Testing the Effectiveness of Payment for Ecosystem Services to Enhance Conservation in Productive Landscapes; The Albertine Rift, Western Uganda: Lilly Ajarova , Chimpanzee Sanctuary & Wildlife Conservation Trust , TBA. … and livelihoods? What are practical methods that can be incorporated into private investment in the tropics (agricultural commodities, mining, timber extraction, etc.) that …
… Colloquium speaker series. Join us as we welcome Deborah Spalding, Managing Director & Investment Officer at Commonfund. She is also an Advisory Board Member, CBEY and Lecturer … so please register to reserve your seat. Deborah Spalding is a Managing Director & Investment Officer at Commonfund, an investment manager for endowments, foundations, and public pension investors. Prior to that, …
… Project Manager with The Willamette Partnership and Todd Gartner, Senior Associate, Conservation Incentives & Markets World Resources Institute. Increasing pressure on natural … the World Resources Institute are leaders in getting innovative market-based approaches to conservation on the ground. “Investing in Conservation: Markets Based Approaches” will cover … between both organizations, including examples of regulatory and pre-compliance markets, investment in drinking water supply, and applications to spur corporate investment in …
… of Sustainability Affairs at Credit Suisse, will begin the 2016 line-up with his talk on Conservation Finance: From Niche to Mainstream – as the Building of an Institutional Asset Class. In January 2016, Credit Suisse released a new report, “Conservation Finance – From Niche to Mainstream,” which examines the recent development of the conservation finance market. In this webinar, Fabian Huwyler, the lead author, will present …
… are a promising mechanism to help finance sustainable forest management practices and conservation projects, yet transaction costs and market structure have limited improved … carbon offset projects to large scales. In this webinar, Brian Kittler , Director of the Western Regional Office at the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, will review lessons and insights from a recent project in the Pacific …
… webinar series that addresses the growing importance of ecosystem service valuation and investment. This year CBEY is joined by co-sponsor Island Press and the Conservation Finance Network in presenting a new round of webinar mini-series. Building on … to encourage responsible land management in order to preserve public benefits. Currently, conservationists and investors alike are moving into this space in hopes of achieving a …
… and domestic, that serve as scalable models and approaches to spur major institutional investments. The second half of this mini-series will feature a talk on Protecting Nature: Landscape Scale Conservation in the United States by Peter Howell of the Open Space Institute (OSI). In this webinar, Howell will discuss his work at the Open Space Institute, a conservation organization that focuses on landscape-scale conservation throughout the …