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The Conservation Finance Boot Camp 2023

September 13, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Blended Finance
  • Environmental Justice
  • Forest
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Funding
This past June, our team held the 17th 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...
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Chicago 2023 Conservation Finance Roundtable Recap

Katie Michels
August 23, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Cities
  • Land Conservation
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
Eighty-five practitioners from across the United States came to Chicago in April, 2023 to attend the 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...

Staking the State of Nature, With Data and Urgency

Dimitria Spathakis
March 21, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Forest
  • Fresh Water
  • Habitat
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Oceans
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
In December 2022 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) advocated urgency for an expedited 2025 timeline to more than double finance flows in nature-based solutions (NbS) to limit climate change to below 1.5°C, halt biodiversity loss, and achieve land degradation neutrality. UNEP published the second edition of its “State of...

Conservation Finance Learning Lab Recap, Part Two: Harvesting a Bumper Crop of Federal Funding

Grace Cajski
February 08, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Forest
  • Habitat
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
The available level of funding does not have recent precedent,” said Leigh Whelpton, Executive Director of the Network. This windfall of potential funding is certainly beneficial to practitioners, who often rely on initial government support to attract private investors.
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Repairing Cracks in Philly (But Not its Bell)

February 03, 2023
Source: EPA press release
This February 3 announcement trumpets a loan to replace lead service lines in the United States' fifth-largest city.
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Apply for CFN's 2023 Boot Camp, In Person at Yale University

January 20, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Impact Investing
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
CFN is pleased to announce our 17th annual Boot Camp will be held June 5-9, 2023, at the Yale School of the Environment in New Haven, CT, in partnership with the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. The Boot Camp is a week-long intensive workshop that helps mid-career professionals...
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In India, the State Plans to Set a Carbon-Price Floor

December 23, 2022
Source: Reuters
This December 21 dispatch details (a bit) how India plans to attract development finance by setting a floor on carbon prices with a "stabilization fund" to debut by 2026.
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The Only Animal That Blushes

December 16, 2022
Source: The Guardian
The United Nations' biodiversity summit didn't break down, the British lefty paper notes on December 14, but it also didn't quite hold together.
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Voters Get Green Thumbs, Approving Nearly $9 Billion for Nature

November 11, 2022
Source: The Architect's Newspaper
This November 10 summary nods at a Trust for Public Land analysis of 63 conservation or nature-focused ballot questions that voters endorsed in the United States this year.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Pain

September 05, 2022
Source: NPR
In light of public failures in Mississippi, an activist holds forth on the true cost of neglected drinking water systems.

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