Explore Our Conservation Finance Video Playlists
While launching our website, we’ve created a video library of playlists you can explore. Visit the videos below - and our new YouTube channel - to learn the nuts and bolts of conservation finance techniques and see how they are applied in the field.
Many of these videos show research, innovations, and best practices. Others highlight case studies from various ecosystems in the United States and internationally.
We welcome your comments on our selections. Also, we encourage you to send us links to videos that might appeal to our readers.
Forests
Introductory Materials, Case Studies, and Projects
- Indonesia Makes Progress to Finance Biodiversity Conservation- This video highlights a United Nations Poverty-Environment Initiative project in forest conservation finance, watershed protection, and community engagement.
- Buying Time For Working Forests- This Conservation Fund’s Working Forest Fund’s activities create bridge capital for forest-conservation activities.
Lectures and Webinars
- Tracking REDD+ Finance- This learning session from the World Wildlife Fund outlines recent progress on REDD+ forest and climate finance.
- Investments: Innovative Approaches to Financing for Inclusive Green Returns- This discussion forum from the Forests Asia Summit covers forest finance from the Center for International Forestry Research.
Freshwater and Wetlands
Introductory Materials, Case Studies, and Projects
- Mitigation Banking: How Conservation Can Thrive with Development- This video from Environmental Defense Fund provides an introduction to wetland-mitigation banking.
Lectures and Webinars
- Green Infrastructure: Using Natural Landscapes for Flood Mitigation and Water Quality Improvements- This Resources For the Future panel described green infrastructure approaches to mitigating flood impacts.
- Water in the West: How Impact Investing Can Help- This webinar from Yale University’s Nature’s Returns series covered investment strategies to address water challenges in river basins in the West and globally.
Oceans and Coasts
Introductory Materials, Case Studies, and Projects
- Sustainable Financing for Marine Protected Areas: Some Solutions to Meet the Gaps in Southeast Asia- In this video, World Wildlife Fund provides insight into how to address the financing gap for Marine Protected Areas in the Coral Triangle.
- Mangroves For The Future - Investing in Coastal Ecosystems- The Mangroves for the Future initiative is a cross-sector effort to build coastal resilience through ecosystem restoration support.
Lectures and Webinars
- A Brighter Future: Manta Rays in Peru- This is an overview of a project supported by the New England Aquarium’s Marine Conservation Action Fund.
- Sustaining MPA Management and Conservation, Chumbe Island, Tanzania- The Nature Conservancy recorded a case study of creating a financially, environmentally, and socially sustainable Marine Protected Area.
Land and Ecosystems
Introductory Materials, Case Studies, and Projects
- Madison Valley, Montana: A Model for Land & Water Conservation-This case study from The Trust for Public Land shows how conservation easements and water leases are being used in Montana.
- Establishing Conservation Easements- The Sage Grouse Initiative provided an overview of how conservation easements can support working landscapes and ecosystems.
Lectures and Webinars
- Protecting Nature: Landscape Scale Conservation in the United States- This webinar from Yale University’s Nature’s Returns series shows the trends, challenges and opportunities for landscape-scale conservation in the United States.
- Legal and Financial Innovation in Land Conservation: The Next Chapter- This webinar from Harvard University’s Ash Center covered conservation easements and land trusts.
Focus on Finance
Introductory Materials, Case Studies, and Projects
- Payment for Ecosystem Services- This is an overview from the James Hutton Institute showing how payment for ecosystem services systems works.
- Funding the Long-Term Protection of Nature- Conservation International detailed its Global Conservation Fund and associated strategies to protect valuable conservation areas.
Lectures and Webinars
- SOCAP14 - The Evolution of Conservation Finance- Social Capital Markets hosted a panel on how conservation finance has changed over time and what the opportunities are for harnessing funds.
- Risk, Return on Investment, and Incentives: Why Environmental Conservation Needs High Finance- This Amherst College lecture described how financial markets and instruments can support biodiversity protection and conservation.
- A Conversation with Matt Arnold on the Evolution of Sustainable Finance- This Yale University webinar covered the past and future trends in sustainable finance.
- From Walden to Wall Street: Frontiers of Conservation Finance- This webinar from Harvard University’s Ash Center explained how to identify innovative sources of conservation finance.
Note: Some of these videos were produced by Yale University. Harvard University, The Nature Conservancy, and The Trust for Public Land have supported Conservation Finance Network. Our supporters do not review our articles or our editorial calendar.
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