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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

Thailand Country Profile

This report provides an overview of the status of Privately Protected Areas in Thailand.
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Resource Type Country Profile
Topic Privately Protected Areas

Venezuela Country Profile

This report provides an overview of the status of Privately Protected Areas in Venezuela.
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Resource Type Country Profile
Topic Privately Protected Areas

Vietnam Country Profile

This report provides an overview of the status of Privately Protected Areas in Vietnam.
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Resource Type Country Profile
Topic Privately Protected Areas

Greening Australia: Innovator and Collaborator in Achieving Nature-based Solutions through Restoration

ILCN

This case explores how two nature-based solutions projects came to fruition through private, government, and industry collaboration.The two cases explore nature-based solutions as vehicles to address climate goals, increase conservation funding opportunities, and address corporate sustainability goals. 
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Resource Type Case Studies / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Finance / Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration

Water Funds: Conserving Green Infrastructure for Source Water Protection

ILCN

This paper explores the application of water funds as a tool for moving financing towards upstream conservation and land management projects that can result in maintenance or improvement of water quality. In particular, this paper explores 2 cases of water funds: one operating in Quito, Ecuador beginning in 2000, and another in which bega...
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Resource Type Case Studies / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Green Infrastructure / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance

Restoration of the Lower Havel River in Northeast Germany

ILCN

The lower Havel River restoration project in northeast Germanydemonstrates that restoring an industrialized river system can provide significant benefits, including enhanced biodiversity and habitat, augmented recreational value, natural flood protection, and increased water storage capacity in the landscape. 
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Resource Type Case Studies / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Green Infrastructure / Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration

The Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation: Catalyzing Natural Climate Solutions for Coastal Resilience in the Gulf Coast

ILCN

This case explores the land conservation sector’s response to the Deepwater horizon Oil spill of 2010. It focuses on the establishment of the Partnership for Gulf Coast Conservation, and addressesthe utilization of disaster relief funding in land conservation as a green infrastructure solution. 
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Resource Type Case Studies / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance

Ant Forest: Using Financial Technologies to Advance Climate Solutions in China

ILCN

This case study explores how a Chinese financial technology giant –Ant Group –embraced the nascent idea of green finance by developing an innovative personal carbon account called Ant Forest and linking it with a variety of afforestation and nature protection programs run by non-profit partners. 
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Resource Type Case Studies / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance / Stewardship and Land Management

Addressing Critical Climate Impacts Through Landscape-Scale Partnerships: The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy's Story of Collaboration and Innovation

ILCN

This case explores how the partnerships and networks developed among land managers at organizations around Mt. Tam have led to their collective increased impact and the proliferation of similar partnerships and networks. 
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Resource Type Case Studies / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance

Sebago Source Protection: Collaboration, Conservation & Co-Investment in a Drinking Water Supply

ILCN

This case study tells the story of a partnership between ten stakeholder organizations that banded together to protect the Sebago watershed, the region's drinking water, and the myriad co-benefits the forestland provides to the greater Portland area. 
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Resource Type Case Studies
Topic Governance / Green Infrastructure / Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Policy / Stewardship and Land Management