Conservation Finance Network

This March 30 report looks at new proposed standards from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, arriving in a fraught moment.

A March 24 dispatch from a radio station in Wisconsin's North Woods traces opposite trajectories in the volume of people exploring the outdoors and the volume of state funding for public lands.

This March 23 story relays a study showing that new tropical forest planting reversed 26% of the carbon harm from logging and deforestation.

This March 23 piece distills the case for and against a federal regenerative-agriculture standard.

Three British scholars summarize their paper, which sifts through over 20 nations' decarbonization plans and finds a burn line of reliance on carbon offsetting and burial.

This March 8 op/ed, courtesy Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's foundation, argues for public-private piles of capital to scale conservation as needed.

This February 27 event recap salutes the idea of building investment strategies around distributive justice.

In a bird's-eye view of the context for serious nature-based solutions, a February 19 post looks at how a high school student tracks billionaires' carbon output.

This February 23 post sifts through strengths and concerns in the soil carbon marketplace.

This February 17 op/ed from two World Bank governors argues for a steep increase in biodiversity finance.