… 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 …
… African ministers issued an ambitious challenge: We need to mobilize $2 billion in direct investment through 2022 for Africa's land restoration movement, AFR100. Funders are responding, announcing that they are committing to … Location New Haven , CT Related Programs Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services Conservation Finance Network Participants Sonia Wang Alumni Master of Environmental …
… circular economy principles into business. Prior to Kering, Helen worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) for 12 years on conservation strategy, program management and market-based approaches to conservation. She has Ph.D. in Zoology from the Australian National University is on the …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… tools that the Chesapeake Conservancy is developing. These tools streamline the efforts of conservation and restoration organizations, allowing them to quickly priortize efforts and model the … markets in the Chesapeake Bay, aiming to improve water quality while helping finance conservation and restoration projects using market based solutions. The free online event …
… can make real gains for the environment. The principles of his approach, dubbed “quantified conservation,” will be familiar to any thriving entrepreneur: situational awareness, bold outcomes, innovation and technology, data and analytics, and gain-focused investment. This no-nonsense strategy builds on the inspirational environmental work begun … that the next economy will demand new solutions. As President of The Freshwater Trust, a conservation nonprofit headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Whitworth has put quantified …