New Resilience/Adaptation Financing Guide for SF Bay Area
A CFA member recently helped put together a resilience/adaptation financing guide for the San Francisco Bay Area Resilient by Design challenge. The guide can be found here, on the Resilient Bay Area page, or on the CFA site.
Call for Webinar Topics
Over the next few months we are aiming to host several webinar sessions presented by CFA members. If you have an idea you would like to present or a topic that you would like to see presented and discussed, please email our secretariat.
The webinars can cover a range of conservation finance topics. For an idea of what a CFA webinar session will look like, please check out the webinars page on the website for a description and recordings of our last session with Lestari Capital.
Book Recommendation Page is Now Live
For the past few weeks we have been gathering recommendations for books relating to conservation that our members might enjoy or find informative. We have compiled a list of these books that is now up on the CFA site. Each listing contains the title, a short description, and the name of the member who recommended it.
Moving forward, we would love to post more recommendations! if you have a book you would like to include on the site, please send the title and a few sentences on why you think your fellow members should check it out to our secretariat.
WWF GEF Seeks Consultant for Upcoming Project
The WWF GEF Agency is recruiting a consultant to develop the WWF GEF Project Document (ProDoc) for the Project “Land Degradation Neutrality Fund Technical Assistance Facility” (GEF PMIS #9900).
Terms of Reference are available for download here, as we all the GEF-6 Project Identification Form.
Interested parties1 are requested to email separate technical and financial proposals along with an application letter to Astrid Breuer [astrid.breuer@wwfus.org], WWF GEF Agency, 1250 24th St. NW, Washington DC, 20037, USA, no later than 5:00 PM, 15 January, 2018.
BIOFIN Webinar - Private Lands Conservation Series, Part 1: Conservation easements, the USA case
Mon, Dec 4, 2017 - 9:00am EDT
BIOFIN is launching a series of webinars on private lands conservation that will feature examples such as conservation easements, customary and collective property conservation, and Private Protected Areas (PPAs). This first session will focus on conservation easements in the US. Conservation easements are legally binding agreements between private landowners and non-profit land trusts or government to protect conservation values of a property. The webinar speaker, Andrew Seidl, is a co-author of the study and a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at CSU as well as a Senior Technical Advisor for BIOFIN.
The Webinar will focus on the main lessons learnt from the mechanism's evolution and implementation in the US. The strengths, weaknesses and risks will be presented as well as relevant examples of implementation and the return on investment of such mechanism for the region of Colorado.
Further information on the webinar is available here, and the link to register is here.
Updates from the RedLAC Assembly
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, was the host city for the 19th RedLAC Assembly on November 2017. This is one of the most important meetings about cooperation among environmental funds and financing for conservation in the region. For the first time three funds hosted the Assembly Fundacion Sur Futuro, Fondo Marena and Caribbean Biodiversity Fund.
One hundred and sixty-two attendees from four continents were able to exchange during four days information and experiences thanks to this valuable networking taking place during the Assembly.
This year’s Assembly theme was the Blue Economy, focusing in particular on the importance of coastal and marine ecosystems for sustainable development and how Environmental Funds can play a crucial role in this agenda. Thematic panels discuss the concepts of the Blue Economy, its perspectives, the relationship with the tourism sector and actions to adapt to climate change. As every year, the agenda was complemented with panels dedicated to financial, investment and environmental fund management issues.
Presentations, photos, and information from the assembly will be available on the CFA Site later this week.
New Clarmondial and WWF Report on Conservation Investments
Clarmondial and the WWF Landscape Finance Lab have produced “Capitalising Conservation”, a new report exploring how conservation organisations and their partners can mobilise private investment in conservation. The report provides a framework to guide the identification, structuring and execution of investments in conservation. It describes various roles conservation organisations can play to unlock investment capital and supports effective investor engagement.
The publication highlights how leading conservation organisations have pioneered investment strategies and structures in conservation finance, illustrated by case studies involving Conservation International, NatureVest (The Nature Conservancy), Rewilding Europe, Wildlife Conservation Society, Wildlife Works and WWF. It features a foreword by Naoko Ishii, the CEO of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the perspective of corporates and investment partners including Nespresso and Finance in Motion.
The Capitalising Conservation report is available here.
The press release regarding the report is available here.
World Wildlife Fund Seeking Senior Program Officer
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Senior Program Officer for the Northern Great Plains (NGP) Program’s Tribal Sustainable Financing Initiative. The NGP Program works across a five-state region with private, public, and tribal partners. It is a two-year full-time position, based out of Bozeman (may be negotiable for the right candidate). Please share with anyone who you think would be interested – and share widely within your networks.
Further information on the position as well as how to apply can be found on the WWFUS site.
Application is due Jan 7th.
Bhutan to Permanently Protect Network of Protected Areas
The Royal Government of Bhutan, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), donors and partners from around the world announced their commitment to create a USD $43 million fund—the first of its kind in Asia—to permanently protect Bhutan’s network of protected areas.
This funding will be combined with USD $75 million from the Bhutan government, which will be contributed over a 14-year period, to support a new program called Bhutan for Life (BFL). The program, which is supported in part by a USD $26.6 million grant from the Green Climate Fund, will ensure that there is funding forever to properly manage Bhutan’s protected areas—which constitute 51 percent of the country, the highest percentage of land designated as protected in Asia.
The press release can be found here. For further information, both WWF and USNews have provided web stories.