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How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

This paper examines the experience of collaborative partnerships in dealing with climate change. The examination draws from a recent online survey of landscape conservation partnerships, interviews with over 40 practitioners, web research, and email communications. The paper presents practices that appear to be most effective and makes re…

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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Working Paper
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration

ILCN e-Newsletter, July 2017

Updates from Argentina, Romania, Panama, the IUCN, and the world of finance.

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Resource Type ILCN NewsletterILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic FinanceLaw and PolicyOrganization and GovernancePrivately Protected AreasStewardship and Land Management

State of Private Investment in Conservation 2016: A Landscape Assessment of an Emerging Market

Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace

This report tracks the burgeoning field of “conservation investing” – a component of socially and environmentally conscious “impact investing.” The private sector channeled $8.2 billion (B) of private capital into investments that seek measurable environmental benefits – in addition to financial returns – between 2004 and 2015.

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Resource Type Guide/Best PracticesPartner PublicationResearch Paper
Topic Finance

Conservation Finance From Niche to Mainstream: The Building of an Institutional Asset Class

Credit Suisse et al.

A toolkit for substantially growing the investment that flows into the conservation sector, illustrated by a few concrete ideas that we deem to be scalable, repeatable, and investable.

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Resource Type Guide/Best PracticesPartner PublicationResearch Paper
Topic Finance

ILCN e-Newsletter, May 2017

International Land Conservation Network

Announcing the ILCN’s 2018 Global Congress, introducing the ELCN, World Environment Day, and more

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Resource Type ILCN Newsletter
Topic Law and PolicyOrganization and GovernanceStewardship and Land Management

Private Capital for Working Lands Conservation

The Conservation Finance Network

A new report from the Conservation Finance Network translates practitioner insight into a framework and common language to describe the way in which conservation finance markets materialize and mature. 

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Resource Type Guide/Best PracticesPartner PublicationResearch Paper
Topic Finance

ILCN e-Newsletter, March 2017

Updates from the ILCN team, new regulations in South Africa and Catalonia to advance private land conservation efforts, and more…

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Resource Type ILCN Newsletter
Topic FinanceLaw and PolicyOrganization and Governance

Report on the Workshop on Emerging Innovations in Conservation Finance

In September 2016, 63 conservation practitioners, private landowners, finance experts, and elected officials from eight counties, primarily in the Americas, gathered in Chile to build on and sharpen concepts that are making, or have the potential to make, a substantial impact on conservation finance in the Western Hemisphere and beyond. T…

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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic FinanceGreen InfrastructureLaw and PolicyOrganization and Governance

ILCN Webinar: What does the Paris Climate Agreement mean for land conservation organizations?

Join conservation finance experts to learn how land conservation organizations can engage in the Paris Climate Agreement framework.

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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute PublicationWebinars
Topic FinanceLaw and PolicyOrganization and Governance

BirdLife South Africa Tax Incentive Used

BirdLife South Africa

BirdLife South Africa’s Fiscal Benefits Project has successfully included the very first biodiversity tax incentive for Nature Reserves in an annual tax return. Section 37D allows a landowner who has declared a Nature Reserve to deduct the value of the land from their taxable income. This was achieved on behalf of a landowner for the very…

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Resource Type Partner Publication
Topic FinanceLaw and Policy

Landscape Connectivity: A call to action

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Creating landscapes with healthy, functioning ecosystems is not only key to making progress towards the environmental targets embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals, but also to addressing multiple social and economic targets that depend partly or wholly on the benefits that ecosystems provide to people.

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Resource Type Guide/Best PracticesPartner PublicationResearch Paper
Topic FinanceGreen InfrastructureLarge Landscape Conservation and RestorationLaw and PolicyStewardship and Land Management
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