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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

Shortfalls and Solutions for Meeting National and Global Conservation Area Targets

Conservation Letters; A Journal for the Society for Conservation Biology

The existing Protected Area network needs only an additional 3.3 million square kilometers to achieve 17% global terrestrial coverage. Such extensive and rapid expansion of formal Protected Areas is unlikely to be achievable. Greater focus is therefore needed on alternative approaches, including community- and privately managed sites.
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Resource Type Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Privately Protected Areas

State of the Rainforest Report

GRID Arendal, A Centre Collaborating with UNEP

This is the third "State of the Rainforest" report published by the Rainforest Foundation Norway. It details stories of how communities actively protect their forests, and underscores that solutions for the global problem of tropical deforestation must be built on local experiences.
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Resource Type Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Green Infrastructure / Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Law and Policy / Stewardship and Land Management

Conservation Finance Moving beyond donor funding toward an investor-driven approach

Credit Suisse

This report shows that there are many unexploited private sector investment opportunities to increase conservation finance and deliver maximum conservation impacts while, at the same time, generating returns for investors.
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Resource Type Guide/Best Practices / Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance

Investigating the Scalable Models of the Future

Credit Suisse

A 2014 meeting hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco brought together leading practitioners to discuss successful conservation finance deals and innovative transactional structures. The focus was on ideas that are scalable and repeatable and that generate returns for investors. The goal of the workshop was to facilitate the ...
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Resource Type Guide/Best Practices / Other / Partner Publication
Topic Finance

Investing in Conservation; A Landscape Assessment of an emerging market

NatureVest

As the impact investment market has grown in recent years, so has the research coverage across sectors and thematic areas of focus. This report presents the first study of the market for conservation-related impact investments.
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Resource Type Guide/Best Practices / Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance

The Futures of Privately Protected Areas; Developing Capacity for a Protected Planet

International Union for the Conservation of Nature

The project arose because of a concern that privately protected areas deserve to be fully recognized, better integrated with national and regional conservation policies, encouraged and supported. This is the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) first comprehensive report on the status of privately protected areas an...
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Resource Type Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management

The Global Reach of Land Trust Organizations

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

This paper is a summary of the author’s reflections gained from the many interactions he has had over the past 18 months with land trust practitioners, academics and government agency leaders on several continents.
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Working Paper / Research Paper
Topic Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas

An Open Field: Emerging Opportunities for a Global Private Land Conservation Movement

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

This paper explores the history of the land trust movement in the US, looks at specific examples of the growing private land conservation movement around the globe, and proposes a model that includes a framework of legal, financial and organizational elements.
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Working Paper / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas

Conservation on Private Land: A Review of Global Strategies with a Proposed Classification System

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

With parks and protected areas insufficient to sustain global biodiversity, the role of private land in biodiversity conservation is increasingly significant. This paper proposes a classification system for private land conservation as a complement to IUCN's classification of global protected areas.
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Resource Type Research Paper
Topic Law and Policy / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management

Alternative Ways to Support Private Land Conservation

European Commission

This report for the European Commission extensively details current global trends occurring in private land conservation. It offers analysis of such trends and also suggests alternative methodologies for performing private land conservation in different areas of the world depending on legal, governance, and financial structures.
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Resource Type Guide/Best Practices / Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Law and Policy / Privately Protected Areas