The WWF&C Conservation Finance Group works with a growing community of conservation finance practitioners in the United States and around the world, sharing innovative finance mechanisms for funding land protection and applying them in ways that will conserve more land more effectively.

With recent federal legislation focused on climate change mitigation, there is the potential for a significant increase in funding for natural climate solutions in New England. This influx of funding has the potential to propel long-awaited, vital conservation projects. Now more than ever, conservation organizations, municipalities, landowners, and businesses need to understand the barriers and opportunities so that funding can be applied in the most efficient and impactful ways. Our funding initiatives focus on building and sharing this understanding to help garner strong public and private financial support for conservation projects from a broad spectrum of sources throughout the region.

Funding Initiatives

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A report including a collection of data on public conservation funding at the federal, state, and local levels for all New England states. It is a reference for conservationists working in New England and a foundation for conversations about current and future avenues for increased conservation funding in the region.
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The Conservation Economics initiative helps to communicate the economic value of land conservation and refute claims of negative impacts, to facilitate new funding streams for land conservation. This initiative aims to grow the pool of available funding for land conservation by obtaining the support of non-traditional conservation partners.
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The Conservation Finance Network (CFN) advances land and resource conservation by expanding the use of innovative and effective funding and financing strategies.
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The New England Conservation Finance Roundtables bring together regional and national thinkers representing NGOs, foundations, investment advisors, state and federal agencies, universities, and landowners to explore new strategies to confront a troubling upward trend in forest and farmland conversion to development coupled with slowing rates of land protection.
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A coalition of organizations conserving forests in the Sebago Lake watershed to protect water quality, wildlife, and way of life.