… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… Featuring Jimmy Daukas, Acting VP of Programs, American Farmland Trust Featured speaker Jimmy Daukas will discuss how and where American … are benefitting from ecosystem services transactions. He will review major trends in conservationinvestments on agricultural lands, and suggest solutions to key challenges confronting more …
… in Ecosystem Services." Zachary Knight – Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blue Forest Conservation (BFC) – will present a session titled: Paying for Success: Financing Forest Restoration in the West. In this webinar, Knight will showcase the Forest Resilience Bond, an innovative …
… is currently exploring ecosystem services markets and payments as a tool to promote forest conservation in the West. She will review how private forest landowners are currently … engaging in these markets, and project current and future challenges to attracting more investments in American forests. The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is pleased to …