Relevant Conservation Finance Links

Posted here will be relevant and interesting Conservation Finance links.

www.biodiversityeconomics.org -  An extensive background site with more than 1300 links to publications (380) and other web sites (670 pages) dealing with business, finance, incentives, trade, assessment and valuation. This website has also been recently redesigned! It now includes a spider that allows you to search relevant documents from a selection of other sites as well as a Basics section for people new to biodiversity economics and includes introductory texts and summary papers.

http://www.iisd.ca/linkages - Linkages is provided by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and is designed to be an electronic clearing-house for information on past and upcoming international meetings related to environment and development policy. For example, they have proceedings and the Plan of Implementation from the recent World Summit on Sustainable Development.

www.gefweb.org - The Global Environment Facility website with information on the GEF's medium-sized projects and small grants programs as well as a "How do I?" page that explains GEF procedures. The website http://sgp.undp.org/ has information just on the Small Grants Programme.

http://www.biodiv.org/financial/sources.asp - These pages on the Convention on Biological Diversity website point to sources for funding, institutions involved in sustainable financing for conservation  and other useful references on financial resources for conservation.

http://www.earthcouncil.com/earthcouncil/ - The Earth Council Learning Center for Sustainable Development is dedicated to hosting courses on topics of global importance such as climate change, world trade, and sustainable development. The courses are aimed at professionals from all spheres working on these issues. and courses are open to all organizations working on sustainable development issues. 

www.frameweb.org - FRAME is a gateway that links you to sources of information, tools and expertise on environment and natural resource issues in Africa. It is an internet-based resource that provides access to relevant technical information, networks and analytical mechanisms to facilitate engagement by African partners in using those resources in strategic planning and decision-making. Its key components include the FRAME website, which is not only a library of technical reports and country data, but also a gateway to other databases and mechanisms that help you sort through the mountains of data and analyze it in ways that suit your needs. It also helps connect you with others with experiences to share.

www.ecofondos.net - Ecofondos.net is a webportal full of information on the financing of nature conservation and sustainable development. It is Ecofondos' hope that people in Latin America who are developing programs and projects related to environmental conservation and sustainable development (government officials, NGO staff, university professors, etc.), as well as others who are just interested in these issues, will visit this site to get information on sources of funding and on writing grant proposals and will also join their listserv.

www.a-p-e-x.org - Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange (APEX) is devoted to promoting ecosystem health and ecological economics and to halting the globalization of unsustainable economic policies. Focusing on the vital areas of toxics, forests, fisheries and global trade policy, they achieve their goals through organization, education and advocacy. APEX works through two main projects: The Basel Action Network (BAN) and the Center for Applied Ecological Economics (CAEE). BAN is an international network of activists seeking to put an end to economically motivated toxic waste export and dumping -- particularly hazardous waste exports from rich industrialized countries to poorer, less-industrialized countries. CAEE builds on the work of APEX by identifying the ecological economic aspects of established APEX projects, by building the relationship between the growing academic circle and studies of ecological economists with environmental decision makers, and by educating stakeholders on ecological economics.

www.iied.org/eep/pubs/MarketsforEnvironmentalServicesseries.html - The International Institute for Environment and Development has available a series of reports on Markets for Environmental Services, which focus on the financial, environmental and poverty impacts of recent initiatives to develop markets and other financial compensation mechanisms for environmental benefits (services) in rural areas of the developing world.

http://www.gefweb.org/ResultsandImpact/Monitoring___Evaluation/Working_Paper__11.pdf - Recent review of Financial Arrangements in GEF-supported Biodiversity Projects. All Annexes and Appendices to this report are available at: http://www.gefweb.org/ResultsandImpact/Monitoring___Evaluation/Evaluationstudies/
evaluationstudies.html.

http://www.cites.org/eng/prog/economics.shtml - A page on the CITES website that contains the agenda and documents from the recent Workshop on Economic Incentives and Trade Policy, as it affects endangered species. This workshop took place in Geneva, in December 2003.

http://www.biodiv.org/meetings/cop-07/press/ - The COP-7 Press Page contains summaries of the daily events which took place during the Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP-7) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Malaysia, February 2004.

http://www.icbgpanama.org - The International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups' website for Panama describes a bioprospecting project in Panama.

http://www.yale.edu/environment/publications/bulletin/099.html - Bulletin 99, entitled "The Ecotourism Equation: Measuring the Impacts," published by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, has downloadable articles on measuring the impacts of ecotourism, defining its success, and successful design and implementation of ecotourism projects.

http://www.fonafifo.com - website of Costa Rica's Fondo Nacional de Financiamiento Forestal (National Forest Financing Fund) which adminsters their well known Payment for Environmental Services program. It also provides new innovative conservation financing schemes such as the Certificates for Environmental Services. The site is in Spanish with some English sections.

http://www.alear.org - the website for the Latin American  and  Caribbean  Association  of Environmental and Resource Economists (ALEAR - Asociación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Economistas Ambientales y de Recursos Naturales). ALEAR is an NGO that assembles institutions and professionals interested in environmental and natural resource economics - its research, application and dissemination - in order to contribute to the sustainable development of Latin American countries.

http://www.scidev.net/biodiversity - the website of the Science and Development Network, which has created a new biodiversity dossier. The dossier explores how concerns over biodiversity can be reconciled with the needs of developing countries. See the current debate posted: "Conservation and Development: are they compatible?"

http://www.undp.org.cu/eventos/eventos6.html - Proceedings from an LAC workshop on long-term financing for National Systems of Protected Areas, sponsored by UNDP-GEF, Cuba, July 2004.

http://www.redlac.org (website is available in both Spanish and English) - RedLAC is a network of national environmental trust funds operating in Latin America and the Caribbean, whose mission is to set up an effective system of learning, strengthening, training, and cooperation, in order to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of nature in the LAC region.

http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com - The Ecosystem Marketplace provides a coordinated and informative platform for users and providers of ecosystem services to meet and communicate, in order to capture the value associated with ecosystem services. The site publishes the latest information and news regarding ecosystem services.

http://www.katoombagroup.org - The Katoomba Group is an international working group composed of leading experts from forest and energy industries, research institutions, the financial world, and environmental NGOs, all dedicated to facilitating strategic partnerships that can launch green forest products in the market place.

http://www.environmental-finance.com/index.htm - Environmental Finance is a monthly magazine that covers the impact of environmental issues on the lending, insurance, investment and trading decisions affecting industry. Each month, industry specialists and journalists write articles on a broad range of environmental issues including weather risk management, renewable energy certificates, emissions markets and "green" investments.

http://www.foresttrends.org/whoweare/publications.htm - The organization Forest Trends publishes a number of number of papers on their website on the valuation of goods and services from forest ecosystems.

http://www.id21.org/index.html - id21is a free development research reporting service which showcases that latest U.K. research on development issues, and provides policy lessons on major development issues. Check out their Natural Resources and Aid pages.

http://www.flowsonline.net/ - This is the online site for the FLOWS Bulletin, which provides a monthly review of selected topics related to the effectiveness of payment arrangements for watershed services and lessons being learned. The bulletin highlights gaps between theory and practice, the science and policy interface, and relevant information from diverse areas of knowledge.

http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meeting.aspx?mtg=PAWG-01 - Official documents and information from the first meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Protected Areas, which took place from June 13 - 17, 2005 in Montecatini, Italy. One  Convention on Biological Diversity will hold the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Protected Areas, June 13-17 in Montecatini, Italy. Issues discussed were sustainable financing of national protected area systems. 

http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meeting.aspx?mtg=PADONORS-01 - The agenda and information about the recent Convention on Biological Diversity “Meeting of donor agencies and other relevant organizations to discuss options for mobilizing new and additional funding to developing countries for the implementation of the programme of work on protected areas,” June 20-21 in Montecatini, Italy.

The Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) is made up of U.S.-based international conservation organizations with field-based activities in Africa. ABCG and the CFA recently held a joint meeting on Sustainable Financing and Business Planning for Protected Areas. See the presentations here!

http://www.nric.net/index.htm - USAID's Natural Resources Information Clearinghouse has developed some new online resource libraries about USAID's natural resources work. These libraries include information about USAID’s natural resources management projects, documents produced by these projects, and links to related Web resources. Projects included are those dealing with natural resources management, tourism and GIS.

http://wce.wikidev.net/Main_Page - Using the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia as a model, Richard Forrest, in collaboration with IUCN, is developing an online encyclopedia on world conservation. "The goal of the WCE is to document knowledge useful for global sustainable development, and to provide an integrated set of resources useful to practitioners and students of conservation, sustainable development, and related issues."

http://www.wwf-efn.org/funding.cfm - World Wildlife Fund's Russell E. Train's Education for Nature Program maintains a funding source database with information on more than 150 grants, scholarships and fellowships for conservationists throughout the world.

http://www.unep.org/dec/support/mdg_meeting.html - Mainstreaming Environment beyond MDG 7: a high-level brainstorming workshop held in July 2005 in Kenya, sponsored by UNEP/Division of Environmental Conventions. The Workshop aimed at identifying possible future common activities between UNEP, Secretariats of multilateral environmental agreements and development agencies in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Meeting documents, presentations and background documents are available on the site.

http://www.unep.org/dec/support/mdg_meeting_lon.htm - Creating Pro-Poor Markets for Ecosystem Services: a high-level brainstorming workshop held in October 2005 in England, sponsored by UNEP/Division of Environmental Conventions in conjunction with the London School of Economics. This workshop considered the opportunities and possible perverse effects resulting from the creation of markets for ecosystem services especially in the form of exclusion of the poor. One of the objectives of the workshop was to explore ways for the MEAs to support and contribute to pro-poor markets for ecosystem services, if such markets are deemed desirable. Meeting documents, presentations, speeches, and background documents are available.

http://www.enn.com/wild.html?id=275 - a short article on how $650,000 was raised for Madidi National Park, Bolivia, through the auction of the right to name a new monkey species.
http://www.wcs.org/sw-around_the_globe/latinamerica/centralandes/nwbolivia/madidimonkey also has additional information on the auction and National Park.

http://www.gbf.ch/ - This website explains what the Global Biodiversity Forum is and has information on past sessions.

http://www.greenfacts.org - Greenfacts is an organization whose mission it is to make complex scientific reports on health and the environment accessible to non-specialists. Their website provides faithful summaries of such reports. Currently they have a summary of the Millennium Assessment Biodiversity Synthesis Report.

http://www.fao.org/forestry/cpf-sourcebook - The online CPF Sourcebook on Funding for Sustainable Forest Management
has been developed to help users efficiently locate global funding sources for sustainable forest management projects.
The sourcebook, developed and maintained by UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with the Collaborative Partnership on Forests Network (CPF) and the National Forest Programme Facility. compiles information on funding sources, policies and delivery mechanisms, with particular focus on projects in developing countries. Its contents come from various sources: donor agencies and countries, CPF members, international forest-related organizations and instruments, developments banks, private sources, regional processes, foundations and international non-governmental organizations. A major component of the sourcebook is the database of funding sources which contains information on over 600 funds and is a valuable starting point in the search for funding opportunities. You can download a pdf version, or search it online.

http://new.sourceoecd.org/factbook - The OECD Factbook 2006 - Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics provides a global overview of world economic, social and environmental trends.  It is a standard statistical source and reference volume for social sciences/comparative politics.  

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/biodiversity/current_biodiversity_policy/biodiversity_com_2006/index_en.htm - A new EC Biodiversity Communication which gives prominence to the instrumental values of biodiversity (it is subtitled Sustaining ecosystem services for human wellbeing).

http://topshare.wur.nl/naturevaluation - The overall aim of the Nature Valuation and Financing Network (NV&F) is to stimulate the development and exchange of practical tools for proper valuation of the goods and services provided by ecosystems, so that decisions concerning economic development are made with the full understanding of all the costs and benefits involved. The site offers important features such as a publication database which gives the users the opportunity to both download and upload information, a case study database allowing users to scroll through ongoing case studies, discussion platforms where users can communicate through an online platform and national platforms, specifically tailored to a certain country.



 

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