CFA webinar: Launch of the CFA’s “Conservation Trust Funds 2020: Global Vision, Local Action”

Date: November 12th
Time: 11am -12:30pm EST
RSVP: Required

Please join us on Thursday, November 12 for the long-awaited launch of "Conservation Trust Funds 2020: Global Vision, Local Action,"- a comprehensive analysis of Conservation Trust Funds (CTFs) over the past decade and into the future.
 
During this 90-minute webinar, authors Paquita Bath, Amilcar Guzmán-Valladares, Viviana Luján-Gallegos, and Katy Mathias will share key findings from the report.

Thierry Renaud from the MAVA Foundation and Bryna Griffin from BirdLife, donors to the project, will share some remarks.

David Meyers will moderate the panel discussion 
 

Meet our panelists:

Natalia Arango, Executive Director, Fondo Acción 
Scott Lampman, Director, Tropical Forest Conservation Act Secretariat, USAID
Sean Nazerali, Director of Innovative Financing, BIOFUND

This 10-year review was produced as a project of CFA's Environmental Funds Working Group, by a consulting team of Wolfs Company and Aligning Visions, in partnership with a highly engaged CFA Task Force. RedLAC and CAFÉ were key project partners.
 
The study was made possible through funding from Asociación Costa Rica por Siempre, Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial (FFEM), Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat, Master Capital LLC, MAVA Foundation, Trillion Trees (including BirdLife International, Wildlife Conservation Society and WWF-UK), and WWF-US.

We look forward to seeing you!

Photo credit: Jlhopgood

CFA Upcoming webinar – Release of revised Practice Standards for CTFs

As part of the upcoming RedLAC-CAFÉ Virtual Congress, the CFA together with diverse financial and technical partners will launch the revised CFA Practice Standards for Conservation Trust Funds

When?

October 8th, 2020 9AM - 11AM EDT

How to register?

Register for the RedLAC-CAFÉ Virtual Congress by clicking below!

Sustainable Finance for Conservation RedLAC / CAFÉ (Virtual Conference)

RedLAC and CAFÉ invite you to register to our joint virtual congress that will happen from October 6th to 8th, 2020, and will be focused on finding new opportunities for the planet in the post-2020 agenda.

The event will have multiple sessions with high-level speakers that will address the future of CTFs, fundraising priorities, the 30x30 goals, social and environmental safeguards, private sector engagement, and sustainable investment. There will also be opportunities for virtual networking between participants and cultural exchanges. All sessions (except for breakout rooms) will be translated to Spanish and French.

Register for free and engage with a global community of conservation finance practitioners, including environmental funds, donors, impact investors, NGOs, the private sector, and government authorities.

Beyond Tourism in Africa: Diversifying Community Livelihoods From Wildlife (Application Window Open)

The Luc Hoffmann Institute, the African Leadership University’s School of Wildlife Conservation and the WWF Regional Office for Africa are launching a global innovation challenge. This challenges aims to discover and incubate new revenue models that do not depend on tourism, but still enable local communities within African countries to obtain their livelihoods from wildlife, manage their natural resources sustainably, and improve their collective wellbeing. Participants have the chance to win a place in the African Leadership University’s incubation programme and access to seed money. 

Open from 1 September 2020 to 15 October 2020

Forum on Green Finance and Investment - OECD (Virtual Conference)

The OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment is the annual flagship event of the OECD Centre on Green Finance and Investment. Now in its seventh year, the Forum gathers senior policy makers and key public and private actors for action-oriented discussions on green and sustainable finance issues. 

When: October 6 - 9, 2020

Mobilizing Private Finance For Nature (World Bank Group)

This paper argues that governments and regulators, supported by financial institutions and multilateral development banks (MDBs), hold the key to mobilizing private finance at the scale needed to transform the way we build, produce, and consume in order to protect nature while fostering sustainable poverty reduction

The analysis looks at two key approaches to mobilizing private finance for biodiversity.

First, it assesses opportunities for ‘financing green,’ that is, the financing of projects that contribute—or intend to contribute— to the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of biodiversity and its services to people.

Second, it looks at ‘greening finance,’ that is, directing financial flows away from projects with negative impact on biodiversity and ecosystems to projects that mitigate negative impact, or pursue positive environmental impact as a co-benefit.

Full Recording of the September 16th High-Level Event!

Following the successful launch of the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR), we are pleased to provide a full recording of the high-level event for those that may have missed it. The recording can be accessed directly or through the GFCR landing page, which will be replaced by a full website in the coming weeks. The launch of the official website will be the best place to get more information on the GFCR blended finance model, news, upcoming events and projects.

Many thanks to those that attended and our many distinguished speakers!

Financing Nature: Closing the Biodiversity Financing Gap

September 17th, 2020
10 - 11 am EST

Join Hank Paulson and a panel of VIPs for the launch of a landmark report that makes the economic case for valuing nature and explores innovative financing mechanisms and policies that could help close the biodiversity financing gap.

Earth is experiencing accelerating biodiversity loss driven by humans. Climate change, also driven by human activities, is exacerbating these dramatic declines in nature.

Although we will never be able to calculate the full value of nature, we know enough to realize that the destruction of nature presents profound risks to human societies.

Reversing this worrying trend will require a transformational shift in the way markets, and the discipline of economics more broadly, value nature. And this shift needs to be reflected across public and private sectors as well as the general public.

Directors for the CORB Fund

The Cubango-Okavango River Basin is one of the jewels of Africa, recognized globally as one of the world’s greatest natural wonders – with a unique inland delta teeming with wildlife and epitomized by its status as a Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) and UNESCO’s 1,000th World Heritage Site. The countries of Angola, Botswana and Namibia jointly established the Cubango-Okavango River Basin Fund (CORB Fund), as a Company Limited by Guarantee in Botswana to sustain the integrity of this vast and important ecosystem together with the people who live within it. The CORB Fund is a fully independent hybrid fund that aims to enhance livelihoods, improve ecosystem resilience and provide equitable benefits to the riparian states of Angola, Botswana and Namibia, in their shared river basin. The Fund now seeks four highly motivated and experienced people to join the Board of Directors and help to protect the culture and nature of the Okavango and ensure the endurance of its people. The invitation for consideration to join the Board is now available on the OKACOM website and all individuals interested in becoming a part of this exciting and important new member of the conservation finance community can find the information for the Director positions at this web link:

BIOFUND Mozambique demonstrates the added value of CTFs, making 3 million USD available for a conservation response to COVID-19

This support is intended to help maintain the jobs of up to 950 of the 1,600 rangers in the National System of Conservation Areas, so as to guarantee the preservation of the country’s biodiversity during a phase in which the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are seriously affecting the conservation sector.