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Events and Webinars

Practice Standards for Conservation Trust Funds Series - Technology

Practice Standards for Conservation Trust Funds Series - Technology

Please join us on Tuesday, July 20 at 11 am EDT for the seventh webinar in our series on the Practice Standards for Conservation Trust Funds. The July webinar will focus on the new cross-cutting theme of Technology. Herminia Lugo from Fondo de Conservación de Bosques Tropicales de Paraguay (FCBT) will present technological tools that FCBT is using to connect with grantees. Following the presentation, we will use breakout rooms on Zoom to hold smaller group discussions on technological challenges and solutions that are working for CTFs.


Risk Financing for Nature-Based Solutions

Risk Financing for Nature-Based Solutions

Nature plays a significant role in reducing risks for coastal communities, flooding, food security, and a range of other ecosystem services that often remain undervalued and inadequately financed in our market economy. This inspiring webinar will look at innovative ways in which the risk abatement value of nature can be monetized and maintained through innovative risk financing mechanisms that support ecosystem resilience. Presenters and panelists include Cherie Gray of Swiss Re, Mark Way of TNC, Jacq Wharton of Willis Towers Watson, and Claudia Ruiz of the MAR Fund.

Practice Standards for Conservation Trust Funds webinar series

Practice Standards for Conservation Trust Funds webinar series
Communications

When: Tuesday, March 16 at 11am EST
Where: RSVP Below

On Tuesday, March 16, please join us for the second webinar in our monthly series taking a deeper look at the 2020 edition of the Practice Standards for CTFs. February's webinar will focus on Communications.

Information on the panelists will be finalized shortly.

CFA Incubator Series: Greenfi

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When: March 3rd, 11am EST
Where: RSVP Below

Greenfi is an innovative finance technology (fintech) company that facilitates performance-based payments and other financial transactions at the community level to target a range of conservation and sustainable-use objectives. Using their deep experience in community-based natural resource management and financial services, Greenfi is able to link payments and conditional credit to an individual or community’s environmental actions. Their smartphone enabled applications, including impact accounting tools, facilitate performance-based contracting (for example, payments for ecosystem services), environmental microfinance and community savings and loans (eco-credit) incorporating environmental criteria into credit scores and cost of capital, while supporting best practices in community engagement, transparency, and governance.



Website: http://greenfi.io/

CFA Webinar: Conservation Actions and Measurements Library (CAML)

Please join us on Friday February 19th at 11am Eastern Time to learn from Nick Salafsky about the Conservation Actions and Measures Library (CAML) under development by Foundations of Success.

CAML can help practitioners find generic theory of change pathways that serve as templates for their project’s specific conservation actions and strategies. It can also help managers and funders develop standard objectives and performance indicators to report on similar actions across a portfolio of actions. It is our hope that CAML will provide the basis for systematic learning about the conditions under which different actions work.

We will discuss how we could use the CAML framework to create theory of change pathways for conservation finance solutions as a tool to increase understanding and capacity to use these tools.

See this video for more information.

WHEN: 11am ET Friday, February 19th, 2021
WHERE: RSVP Below


Nick Salafsky is Executive Director and Co-Founder of FOS. In this role, he works with conservation practitioners across the United States and around the world to define clear and practical measures of conservation success, determine sound guiding principles for using conservation strategies, and develop the knowledge and skills of individuals and organizations to do good adaptive management. Nick is also product manager for the Miradi Adaptive Management Software program (www.miradi.org).


This webinar is hosted by the Marine and Coastal Finance Working Group of the Conservation Finance Alliance. Jos Hill will chair the discussion. If you have any questions, please contact Jos at jos@oceandesignlab.com