Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT) with Angelique Pouponneau

The Conservation Finance Alliance’s Marine and Coastal Finance Working Group recently hosted a webinar with Angelique Pouponneau, the CEO of SeyCCAT as she discusses how the Seychelles leveraged a debt conversion and the world’s first Blue Bond to support the conservation of 30 percent of Seychelles' vast marine territory. Join us as SeyCCAT’s CEO discusses the structure of the Conservation Trust Fund, execution progress and key stakeholders involved in achieving its mission. Enormous interest is growing on the opportunities presented by both blue bonds and debt conversions especially for large ocean states such as Seychelles. The presentation is followed by an active Q&A section. 

A recording of the webinar is available below:

The CFA's Marine and Coastal Finance Working Group recently hosted a webinar with Angelique Pouponneau, the CEO of The Seychelles Conservation and Climate Ad...

Biodiversity and Your Business

Date: February 13, 2020

Hosted by The Land Accelerator, over 60 entrepreneurs joined for a conversation featuring ways to ensure your company is doing its best to respect and promote biodiversity. Participants included CFA Executive Director David Meyers, Willemijn De Iongh, manager at Commonland, and Joel Houdet, principal at Biodiversity Protocol. These experts shared techniques to incorporate biodiversity into business operations, how to consider biodiversity when planning land use change associated with expanding a business’s footprint, and how to collect and report on biodiversity impact figures to customers and investors.

One of the many takeaways is that there are many routes towards supporting biodiversity, and as entrepreneurs are trying to crack the code for creating a financially and environmentally sustainable business, each project around the globe will have a unique approach to building diversity.

A recording of the webinar is available below.

A research and policy agenda for establishing a “Blue Fund” for the conservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems in Costa Rica

Date: January 15th, 2020

Time: 12pm EST

Costa Rica has ten times more marine area than terrestrial area, with a variety of marine and coastal ecosystems that provide valuable goods and services to society at many scales. Nevertheless, these ecosystems have been significantly degraded by unsustainable economic activities mainly because of the public good nature of marine and coastal ecosystem services. They are undervalued or not valued at all under current markets, and lack the appropriate institutions and mechanisms to internalize their value in order to better manage them. As a solution to this research and policy gap, the creation of the Blue Fund is proposed, a new PES scheme focused on marine and coastal ecosystems with the goal of conserving, enhancing and restoring them. To build this new scheme, a six-step process was designed.

A recording of the video is available below as well as on our Youtube Channel.

Please email the secretariat to request a copy of the powerpoint presentation (due to file size).