On World Environment Day, conservation organization Everland announced the launch of the HALO (Holistic Alignment for Lasting ...

Broadly defined, conservation finance is the raising of capital to support the conservation of land, water and resources. This concept started with “debt for nature” swaps during the 1980s and 1990s ...

In New Mexico, the health of forests, headwaters, and aquifers determines whether farmers and ranchers can graze, plant, irrigate and harvest. Wildfire, flood and drought cascade from headwaters into ...

Conservation finance is a relatively new concept in impact investing circles that looks to create financial returns from conservation activities. The Freshwater Trust is a key player in this promising ...

In early 2013, Gunnela Hahn, head of responsible investment for the €725 million ($811 million) portfolio overseen by the Church of Sweden, convinced her board of directors to take a leap of faith.

Conservation finance got a boost in December when the Global Environmental Facility (made up of 18 agencies) allocated over $8 million to the Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation (CPIC).

The climate crisis is global, but its impacts are deeply local. In Africa, communities at the frontlines of climate change are not only among the most vulnerable, but also among the most innovative in ...

Bringing together donors, nations, UN agencies, foundations, NGOs, and private investors, ‘blended finance’ can align private investment with public monies to fund conservation. A new commentary by ...

The news from Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia this year about widespread deforestation probably made a lot of Costa Ricans recall the 1980s. That was the decade when their country was slashing hectares ...