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News focused on funding & financing
nature-based solutions
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The New Year brings with it resolutions – and of course prognostications! In place of the usual experts engaging in crystal ball gazing, the Nature Conservancy turned instead to young professionals inside and outside the organization to size up the road ahead with some illuminating results.
For the Conservation Finance Network, 2024 will be a pivotal year. We will hold our 11th Conservation Finance Roundtable at Duke University’s Nicholas School in Durham, NC on April 25 - 26 and our 18th annual Conservation Finance Boot Camp at Yale’s School of the Environment in New Haven, CT on June 3 - 7 and in between we will assist our colleagues abroad mount the 2nd Annual European Conservation Finance Boot Camp in Romania.
To help us advance this and so much else, we are pleased to announce that Katie Michels, a recent graduate of both Yale University’s School of the Environment and School of Management, recently joined the CFN as its Director of Partnerships. Welcome Katie!
Peter Howell
Executive Director
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2023 was a tough year for the voluntary carbon market as the prices of carbon credits nose-dived amid negative press and concerns about the integrity and credibility of some credits. For a perspective on the market’s travails, efforts at reform and opportunities for a rebound, read this post by a longtime market participant. (Gordian Knot)
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Sustainable investing also hit something of a speed bump last year according to the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, which found that across the globe assets under sustainable management dropped from $35T in 2020 to $30T in 2022. The explanation for the drop is said to be a result of overall decline in the US.(GSI Alliance)
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Will carbon markets go from a year of reckoning to one of redemption in 2024? After a challenging year, experts tell Eco-Business that ongoing efforts to promote high-integrity carbon credits and recent bilateral agreements have spurred hope that markets will recover this year, despite lingering uncertainties. (Eco-Business)
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Harnessing the Land Sector to Achieve U.S. Climate Goals: An all-of-society approach to meeting our climate goals and bolstering the carbon sink by 2035. A recent report anaylzes economic and ecological data to better inform policymaking and land-use management. (America is All In)
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Healey-Driscoll Administration Announces $50 Million Investment and Milestones for Forests as Climate Solutions Initiative. The Massachusetts Climate Forestry Committee issued recommendations for climate-oriented forest management practices based on the latest climate science and is now seeking public input. (Mass.gov)
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Carbon Markets, Easements, and Innovation. See a three-part webinar series on those subjects delivered by the Conservation Finance Network for the US Forest Service’s Cooperative Forestry Program. (CFN.org)
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Conservation Finance Boot Camp - Apply Here, Applications close on February 16, 2024.
Conservation Finance Network
June 3-7, 2024 at Yale University in New Haven, CT
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Program Coordinator
U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities
Greenville, NC with remote possible
Executive Director
Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Network
Southeastern USA
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