… 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 …
… Watch the full recording on YouTube here! Conservation Trust Funds (CTFs) are private, legally independent institutions that provide sustainable grant funding for conservation, usually in countries with developing economies where national budgets are not … catalyze funding for conservation. She will also share findings from the Conservation Trust Investment Survey, an annual report by WCS and the Conservation Finance Alliance that …
… Watch the full recording here! To enable funds to flow into landscape scale restoration projects, the impact must be proven and the value of ecosystem restoration must be measured in financial terms, making a solid business case for cleaner … the full value for each environmental, social, and economics outcome produced by ecosystem restoration, and reports on those outcomes in monetary terms to partners and funders. This …
… Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as he presents the Moore Foundation’s new market-based conservation initiatives. Guillermo Castilleja leads and oversees strategy for the Foundation’s Environmental Conservation Program, which seeks to protect critical ecosystems and balance long-term conservation with sustainable use. The program includes an interlinked trio of …
… that they ultimately pursued. This talk will feature: Spenser Shadle (MF/MBA '13) manages conservation-oriented timberland and organic farmland investments at New Island Capital--an impact investment firm based in San Francisco Patrick … National Forest Foundation’s Business Concept Challenge for a proposal focused on financing restoration-based forest products businesses in rural Oregon. 2417 2427 Equity and …
… Dr. Lovejoy will discuss the evolution of conservation in the Amazon since he first stepped foot in the region over 50 years ago, and describe strategies to finance and execute large-scale conservation. Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, “the Godfather of Biodiversity," is unquestionably among the world's most prominent figures in environmental conservation. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation, a University …
… Governments and conservation organizations invest billions of dollars each year in habitat conservation in efforts to slow ongoing losses of terrestrial biodiversity. Dr. Armsworth will examine the three most commonly used conservationinvestment strategies, and will present case studies from the US and the UK that examine …
… economic, social, and environmental returns. Mike Higuera , the Director of Resource Investments, will discuss the company’s strategy for investing in farms and ranches and … for water while protecting productive agricultural lands. Water is extremely scarce in the western United States and is the lifeblood of the area for both people and nature. Increased … is the fact that western water law was designed to promote consumption; it does not incent conservation or other creative ways to meet current-day needs. The law is slowly changing …
… webinar series that addresses the growing importance of ecosystem service valuation and investment. The benefits that human populations gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems … opportunity to both protect these assets and bring their worth into the market. Currently, conservationists and investors alike are moving into this space in hopes of achieving a … to preserve these benefits, are an increasingly popular realm of both the financial and the conservation worlds. Take part in this webinar series to understand the direction that this …
… ratings available for measuring the environmental performance of green or climate-sensitive investments across all asset classes including equity, fixed income and alternatives. … (and associated revenue). If we are ever to get to scale in moving capital toward greener investments, we will need to establish these metrics, standards and ratings. One of the key … A group of researchers at Yale have partnered with the Emerging Energy and Environment Investment Group (EEEIG) to explore both the challenges with measuring the environmental …