Conservation Finance
3-Part Webinar Series Resources
For State and Territory Agency Staff
Last Updated: December 14, 2023
Below you will find the recordings, PDF slides, and clickable resources correlated with the 3-part webinar series presented by the Conservation Finance Network and USFS Cooperative Forestry Partnership. FYI, some materials are from CFN and others are gathered from outside organizations.
Conservation Finance is a range of strategies that generate, manage, and deploy financial resources and align incentives to achieve conservation outcomes.
Funding/finance is sourced from public, philanthropic, private, and/or blended sources of capital.
If you are looking for a specific topic not listed here, don't hesitate to get in touch with us!
Conservation Finance 101
Watch a previous recording here.
Listed below are a variety of resources for topics that were discussed for Conservation Finance 101.
- Conservation Finance 101
- USFS Conservation Finance Toolkit
- Conservation Finance Glossary.
- Voluntary Surcharges.
- Ballot Measures.
- Bridge Financing.
- Bridge Loans and State Revolving Funds (video).
- Private Capital for Working Lands Conservation.
- Fact Sheet: Emerging Markets for Climate Mitigation or Forest Resilience (USFS).
- Conservation Partnerships with Water Utilities.
Carbon Markets & Easements
Carbon & Easements Panelist Discussion Summary
- Intro to Forest Carbon Offsets (NC State Extension).
- Evaluate the Contribution of Your Land Protection to a Low Carbon Future (Open Space Institute).
- Carbon Offsets in Conservation Easements (Land Trust Alliance).
- Baselines and Additionality in Forest Carbon Projects (The Climate Trust).
- How AMC is Fighting Climate Change through Carbon Credits (The Appalachian Mountain Club).
- Healthy Forests for our Future (The Nature Conservancy).
- Vermont Land Trust Aggregation Project (SIG Carbon).
- Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (National Indian Carbon Coalition).
Innovation Roundup
CFN & USFS Cooperative Forestry Program Technical Assistance Partnership Team
Peter Howell
Executive Director
The Conservation Finance Network
Mary Powers
Forest Finance Associate
The Conservation Finance Network
Liz Petruska
National Program Specialist
USFS/Cooperative Forestry
Jackson Moller
National Program Specialist
USFS/Cooperative Forestry
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CFN's Conservation Finance Roundtable is a cross-sector dialogue that brings together leading market development practitioners to address common obstacles and advance new conservation finance tools, with the goal of improving environmental performance and conservation outcomes.
Registration for the 2024 Conservation Finance Roundtable will be live in January!
The annual Conservation Finance Boot Camp is CFN's flagship training course. Since 2007, the Boot Camp has increased the ability of land and resource conservation professionals to apply innovative and effective funding and financing strategies to their work.
Apply for the next Boot Camp here! Applications close on February 16th at 6pn ET.