… Featuring Jimmy Daukas, Acting VP of Programs, American Farmland Trust Featured speaker Jimmy Daukas will discuss how and where American farmers are … gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and pharmaceutical uses of plants are just a few examples of services humans usually receive for free. A recent …
… 2015-2016 he served as the Senior Economist for Energy and the Environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from … Agency, and several foundations. Prior to joining Yale, was a Fulbright Fellow in New Zealand and a Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the White House Council of Economic … Economics and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College. Reading: Gillingham and Huang (2021) “Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution: Evidence from Ports” …
… with a mini-series on Regional Initiatives: A Strategy for Removing Barriers and Moving to Landscape Scale. The mini-series will highlight regional initiatives, both international and … investments. The first in this mini-series will feature a talk on Bright Spots for Resource Mobilization: Regional Trusts by Willy Kostka of the Micronesia Conservation Trust and Yabanex Batista of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund. In this …
… 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 … Katy Mathias (SOM ‘98) from the Wildlife Conservation Society will discuss ways that CTFs use capital markets and innovative financing mechiansms to catalyze funding for …
… Over the past century, the public sector was the predominant funder of landconservation projects, creating national parks, national forests and wildlife refuges in countries around the world. More recently, inventive …
… Bay Company is a certified B-corp that invests in commercial real estate, agricultural land, and water assets with a mission to produce economic, social, and environmental … is extremely scarce in the western United States and is the lifeblood of the area for both people and nature. Increased demand for this limited resource comes primarily from population growth and greater consumption by plants that use more water as temperatures rise. Complicating this problem is the fact that western …
… 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 announce the … carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and pharmaceutical uses of plants are just a few examples of services humans usually receive for free. A recent …
… 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 … gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and pharmaceutical uses of plants are just a few examples of services humans usually receive for free. A recent …
… Waters initiative, a conservation collaborative and water fund serving the Greater Portland, Maine region in an effort to secure permanently the forests that naturally filter the drinking water for 1/6th of Maine residents. Working with … Watershed Finance Models: Comparing Structure, Scalability and Scope Monday, March 2nd, 2020, 12:00 PM EST — 1:00 PM EST Watch the full recording on YouTube here! In this webinar, …
… “Forest as Capital: Top-down and bottom-up finance approaches to conserve tropical forests.” The ISTF Forest Finance Innovation Prize aims to bring attention to practical and … carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and pharmaceutical uses of plants are just a few examples of services humans usually receive for free. A recent … the market. Public and private mechanisms exist to use payments to encourage responsible landmanagement in order to preserve public benefits. Currently, conservationists and …