The 2024 United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, informally known as “COP 16,” was intended to focus on implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s goals to preserve 30% of the earth’s lands and waters by 2030 and secure $200B in annual commitments by 2030...
Insights Into State Conservation and Agriculture Greenhouse Gas Reduction Priorities from EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program When The Nature Conservancy (TNC) received notification of $200 million in grant funds towards improved forest management, peatland restoration, and tidal wetland enhancement in the Mid-Atlantic earlier this year, it wasn’t just the...
Author: Will Slotznick Photo: Tim Mossholder US private investors are increasingly attracted to regenerative agriculture for its economic potential and observed resistance to broader market contractions. With approximately $50 billion deployed in US sustainable farmland and regenerative agriculture projects today, this represents a significant capital infusion from the private sector...
In late April, the Conservation Finance Network hosted our 12th annual Conservation Finance Roundtable at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in Durham, North Carolina. Nearly 100 attendees came together from across the country to participate in a series of sessions on topics ranging from nature-based solutions and interim...
Nature-based solutions are defined as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural or modified ecosystems to address societal challenges, simultaneously providing benefits for people and the environment” (https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/issues/nature-based-solutions). They include actions like protecting forests, restoring wetlands, increasing carbon storage in soil through improved agricultural management, and reconnecting rivers to...
Late in 2023, the Conservation Finance Network, in collaboration with the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale University, hosted a panel discussion in New Haven, CT about new federal funding opportunities for nature-based solutions. Moderated by Walker Holmes, Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region and Connecticut State Director for the...
This past June, our team held the 17th Conservation Finance Boot Camp at Yale University in New Haven, CT in partnership with the Center for Business and Environment and the Yale School of the Environment. The event was an especially memorable event as we returned to Yale’s School of the...
Eighty-five practitioners from across the United States came to Chicago in April, 2023 to attend the Conservation Finance Network roundtable. The two-day meeting was full of presentations on innovative projects taking place at multiple scales, in different geographies, and led by nonprofit, public, and private entities. The roundtable featured a...
A green sanctuary in the heart of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, Finca Chimelb hums with the melody of melodious blackbirds and chatter among local laborers. Spanning 4,751 hectares, the farm consists of rolling hills lined with high-value crops, such as cacao, specialty coffee, and cardamom, paired with rubber trees and other...
In many parts of the world, clean water is still an untapped market – but a flow of innovative finance is beginning to change this. Currently, the United Nations estimates that between $182 billion to over $600 billion annually is needed to address the global water crisis. Worldwide, millions of...
