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Subject: Financing Conservation Course - July 7, 2025
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Our planet, including our atmosphere, forests, water, and other living entities, are fundamental to human survival. Yet these services have been vastly undervalued and under-resourced. Studies estimate a US$900 billion gap in annual funding needed for conservation critical to maintaining biodiversity and climate outcomes. The field of conservation finance aims to address this massive financing gap as well as the multitude of ways global markets and policies shortchange nature. Conservation finance umbrellas a variety of concepts, including (but not limited to) payments for ecosystem services, nature-based solutions, and environmental markets. In this course, we will focus on key concepts, tools, and challenges in this space. The course will be multidisciplinary, much like the field itself, which reaches across the intersections of ecology, economics, policy, finance, and human rights.
KEY QUESTIONS
What is conservation finance and what is its role in biodiversity, water, and climate?
What are the range of existing finance strategies and tools?
What bottlenecks hold back conservation finance?
What are examples of conservation finance in the field?
How does policy drive or shape or omit conservation finance?
What are the different roles of public and private financing?
Course materials are available for 3 months (July 7–October 8).
Live meetings (also recorded) July 9-Aug 20 on W at 12:00-1:30 ET
See TOPICS & LEARNING OUTCOMES for the details about guest lecturers each week.
(Early bird* savings of $75 ends June 7).
https://www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/conservation-finance
Center for Wildlife Studies <education@centerforwildlifestudies.org>
Friday, May 09, 2025