Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services
By The Yale Center for Business and the Environment
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Description
In the Spring of 2012, the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale launched a special webinar series, Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services. This series of free, public webinars featured an introduction to the topic of Ecosystem Services and the perspective of practitioners in the field from the NGO side and the investment community.
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| 1 | VideoLarge Scale Landscape Restoration: The Investment Case for Ecological and Regenerative Farming | Large scale landscape restoration: the investment case for ecological and regenerative farming | 16 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | Video[Nature's Returns] Protecting Nature: Landscape Scale Conservation in the United States | Peter Howell shares his insight on current trends regarding conservation in the United States. | 2 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | Video[Nature's Returns] Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making: Frontiers in Research and Policy | Highlighting the overarching mission of NatCap and the tools developed to realize its vision, Daily showcases projects where NatCap's work has influenced decision-making around the world. | 2 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making: Frontiers in Research Policy | Gretchen Daily presents the NatCap and its practical, science-based approach towards ecosystem service valuation. | 19 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bright Spots for Resource Mobilisation: Regional Initiatives | The speakers talk about the Micronesia Challenge and the Caribbean Challenge Initiative. | 19 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoA Green Broker Network: Coyote Verde | This week we feature the 2014 winners of the International Society of Tropical Foresters' (ISTF) Forest Finance Innovation Prize, Scott Landis and Yadira Molina Cruz. | 3 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoStrategic Financing Initiatives: Increasing Financial Flows to Locally Controlled Forestry | Chris Meyer, Director of Business Development at Planting Empowerment. Planting Empowerment manages a complex mix of multiple products, species, and financial sources to facilitate increased financial flows to locally controlled forestry. | 6 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoInvesting for Superior Returns and Conservation Value | Peter Stein discusses how Lyme Timber utilizes financial streams such as working forest conservation easements, New Market Tax Credits, wetland mitigation, advantageous debt arrangements, etc. | 6 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoBridging the Gap: Securing High Conservation Value Forests for Future Generations | Brian Dangler, Director of the New Forest Fund at the Conservation Fund, speaks on "Bridging the Gap: Securing High Conservation Value Forests for Future Generations" as part of 'Nature's Returns'. | 20 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoSilvicultural and Financial Innovation for Large Scale Restoration in the Mississippi Delta | Chandler Van Voorhis, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of C2I, LLC, a conservation bank, will kick off our fourth mini-series addressing Leadership Domestic Forest Finance. | 31 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoNational Ecosystem Services: How the USDA Facilitates and Participates in Conservation Incentives | Robert Bonnie discusses how the USDA is using incentives to improve the economic viability and environmental integrity of agriculture. He reviews the risks and opportunities for public lands in ecosystem services transactions. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoEcosystem Services: Perspectives from an Environmental Market Participant | Jeff Reamer, Managing Director of Corporate Business Development with Evolution Markets, discusses the future of private sector engagement/investment in green markets, clean energy, and ecosystem services. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoInvesting in Conservation: Market-Based Approaches | Carrie Sanneman and Todd Gartner discuss how emerging incentive programs for ecosystem services provide a mechanism to restore resilient ecological systems by building connections between people who manage land and water and those who invest. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoFinancing Mechanisms for Watershed Payments | Genevieve Joyce Bennet and Katherine Hamilton discuss the second installment of the ‘State of Watershed Payments’ series, an effort to globally track the size, scope and directions of Investments in Watershed Services. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoThe Role of Forests and Forest Owners in National Ecosystem Services Markets | Laurie Wayburn Co-founder, Co-CEO, and President, Pacific Forest Trust, discusses how her organization, is currently exploring ecosystem services markets and payments as a tool to promote forest conservation in the West. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoEngaging US Producers in Conservation and Ecosystem Management | Featured speaker Jimmy Daukas, Acting VP of Programs, American Farmland Trust, discusses how and where American farmers are benefitting from ecosystem services transactions. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoMitigation Banking: The Business Case for Protecting US Wetlands | George Kelly, Founder of the Environmental Banc and Exchange (EBX) discusses the business case for restoring our nation’s critical ecosystems through mitigation banking. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoEcosystem Services and Corporate Strategy: The Nature Conservancy and The Dow Chemical Company | Jennifer Molnar, Director of Sustainability Science, The Nature Conservancy, discusses a partnership with The Dow Chemical Company recognizing the value of ecosystem services in corporate strategy. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoInternational Investments in Sustainable Forestry and Environmental Markets | Radha Kuppalli, Director of Investor Services, New Forests, discusses the growing timberland asset class. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | VideoConservation Investment and Restoration in the American West | Robert Keith, Principal, Beartooth Capital Partners, discusses how to structure projects which create financial, ecological, and community value through restoration of natural resources on ranchlands. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | VideoLending for Ecological, Family, And Economic Resilience in the Pacific Northwest | Brad Hunter continues the Ecosystem Services and Community Development mini-series by discussing how his firm strengthens economic, ecological, and familiy resilience in the Pacific Northwest through investments in local businesses and non-profits. | 18 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | VideoCommunity Forests and Regional Economic Development | Joe Short, Vice President of Northern Forest Center, continues the Ecosystem Services and Community Development mini-series by discussing community forest management and regional economic development. | 5 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | VideoSoil to Soul: Investing in Land and Supply Chains | Caroline MacGill, Managing Director of Armonia, LLC, speaks about how Armonia considers approaches to transforming grass-fed beef supply chains to support sustainable land management in the American West and beyond. | 22 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | VideoHow The Nature Conservancy Utilizes Conservation Finance Notes and Other Mechanisms | Charlotte Kaiser, continues the Innovative Financial Tools mini-series by discussing TNC's use of Conservation Notes and other mechanisms to support conservation activities and organizational management. | 14 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | VideoInnovative Financial Tools for Conservation: Local Business, Voluntary Surcharges, and Conservation Outcomes | Molly Murfee, Executive Director, 1% for Open Space, discusses "Local Business, Voluntary Surcharges, and Conservation Outcomes" in Gunnison County Colorado. | 13 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | VideoInvestments in Green Infrastructure: Green Infrastructure Tools in the Nation's Capital | The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) is currently implementing a Long Term Control Plan (LTCP or DC Clean Rivers Project, DCCR) to control combined sewer overflows to Washington, DC's waterways. | 16 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | VideoInvestments in Green Infrastructure: Urban Stormwater Management in the Chesapeake Bay | John Campagna, President of Restore Capital, continues the Green Infrastructure mini-series by discussing stormwater financing policy, advancing new business strategies for Chesapeake Bay restoration, and financing options for water quality projects. | 16 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | VideoInvestments in Green Infrastructure: Private Investment in Green Infrastructure | Ricardo Bayon, Partner & Co-Founder of EKO Asset Management Partners, discusses private investment in natural infrastructure and the opportunities of ecosystem services markets in built environments. | 16 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | VideoIntroduction to Ecosystem Services | Katherine Hamilton (’06 M.E.M.) of EcosystemMarketplace.com presents a primer on the topic of Ecosystem Services and takes questions from the audience. | 4 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | VideoEcosystem Services: An Investor’s Perspective | Cliff Sunda, Resident Forester with Working Lands Investment Partners, LLC presents his work and that of WLIP in the field of Ecosystem Services and especially wetland mitigation banking, plus takes questions from the audience. | 4 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | VideoEcosystem Services: An NGO Perspective | Sheila Walsh, Senior Scientist with The Nature Conservancy’s Sustainability Science Program presents her work and the approach taken by TNC and NGO’s in the field of Ecosystem Services, plus takes questions from the audience. | 2 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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