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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

Impact Investing in Sustainable Food and Agriculture across Asset Classes: Financing Resilient Value Chains through Total Portfolio Activation

Croatan Institute

This paper has a specific focus on impact investing in sustainable food and agriculture across asset classes. At a time when farmers, entrepreneurs and companies are increasingly rising to the growing demand for more transparent, organic and local food supply chains, investors have a critical role to play in financing stronger links local…

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Resource Type Guide/Best PracticesPartner Publication
Topic Conservation Finance

July 2017 ILCN Newsletter

ILCN

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

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Resource Type ILCN Newsletter
Topic Conservation 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 of private capital into investments that seek measurable environmental benefits–in addition to financial returns–between 2004 and 2015. This report builds on th…

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Resource Type Guide/Best PracticesPartner Publication
Topic Conservation Finance

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

IUCN, Credit Suisse AG, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, McKinsey Center for Business and Environment, Rockefeller Foundation

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. It targets an audience of mainstream investors interested in learning more about investment structures providing a market-rate return paired with a positiv…

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Resource Type Partner Publication
Topic Conservation Finance

May 2017 ILCN Newsletter

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 Publication
Topic Conservation Finance

March 2017 ILCN Newsletter

ILCN

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 Conservation FinanceLaw and PolicyOrganization and Governance

Report on the Workshop on Emerging Innovations in Conservation Finance

ILCN

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 Conservation FinanceOrganization and Governance

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

ILCN

The Paris Climate Agreement marked a historic moment in our collective fight against climate change. Since that time, and, particularly, at the recent COP in Marrakesh, countries have been working to frame their climate change pledges.
Considering these developments, how can land conservation organizations help their countries to meet th…

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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Law and PolicyOrganization and Governance

The Fiscal Benefits Project Quarterly Update May 2017

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 th…

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Resource Type Partner Publication
Topic Conservation Finance
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