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From the Ground Up: How Land Trusts and Conservancies are Providing Solutions to Climate Change

This Policy Focus Report presents a dozen case studies that demonstrate how land trusts, conservancies, and other nongovernmental civic organizations have meaningfully addressed climate change over the past several decades. These organizations are working to protect land, biodiversity, and historic resources in more than 100 countries on ...
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Green Infrastructure Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration Privately Protected Areas Stewardship and Land Management

ILCN e-Newsletter, September 2017

ILCN

Expanding the Toolbox for Conservation, from Canada, to California, Chile and South Africa's Western Cape
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Resource Type ILCN Newsletter
Topic Finance / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Stewardship and Land Management

Beyond the Source: The environmental, economic and community benefits of source water protection

This report by The Nature Conservancy analyzes 4,000 cities to demonstrate the health, climate and biodiversity benefits of source water protection.
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Resource Type Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Green Infrastructure / Stewardship and Land Management

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

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 Practices / Partner Publication
Topic Finance

ILCN e-Newsletter, July 2017

Updates from Argentina, Romania, Panama, the IUCN, and the world of finance.
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Resource Type ILCN Newsletter / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Finance / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship 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 a...
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Resource Type Guide/Best Practices / Partner Publication / Research 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 Practices / Partner Publication / Research 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 Policy / Organization and Governance / Stewardship 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 Practices / Partner Publication / Research 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 Finance / Law and Policy / Organization 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 beyo...
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Finance / Green Infrastructure / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance