Conservation Finance Network

This conference brings together practitioners to explore and highlight effective financing strategies for conservation, restoration and sustainability of land, water and other natural resources.

Althelia Climate Fund’s investment in a project to restore degraded areas of Peru’s Amazon was supposed to demonstrate how the sale of forest carbon credits could be harnessed to finance large-scale conservation and boost the livelihoods of local farmers.

A few years ago, Paul Gambill, the CEO and founder of Nori, a startup aimed at creating a blockchain-based market for carbon-removal certificates, was grappling with what he called “a simple problem” – the issue that the world was making the quest to take on climate change far too complicated.

The Network for Landscape Conservation is pleased to announce the launch of a major five-year national grant program to accelerate the pace and practice of collaborative conservation at the landscape scale.

Soil health is a pressing global issue that sits at the heart of three United Nations conventions. There is an urgent need to mobilize nature-based solutions to address the challenges of climate change.

The Forest Products Sector Guide offers a standardized decision-making framework to support businesses along the forest-products value chain in identifying, measuring and valuing their impacts and dependencies on natural capital.

This report offers a new way of thinking about the relationship between financial returns and social and environmental impact. Instead of debating whether impact objectives detract from the financial performance of a fund, it identifies the ways in which impact objectives enhance financial performance, based on transactions in the portfolios of market-rate investment managers. This concept is known as “impact alpha.”

A food systems transformation will be central to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its SDGs.

Farmers rely on the Farm Bill’s Conservation Title programs to help them make their farms more resilient and productive. Programs like the Conservation Stewardship Program and Environmental Quality Incentives Program provide the technical and financial resources for farmers to improve the soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitats on and surrounding their operations.

In November 2018, Blue Forest Conservation launched its first Forest Resilience Bond, which raises private investor capital to fund the upfront costs of forest restoration, with multiple beneficiaries sharing the cost of reimbursing investors over time. The bond is based on the idea that the value of the ecosystem services that restored, healthy forests provide - such as decreasing the severity of wildfires - exceeds the cost of restoration.