Yale Conservation Finance Camp

The Center for Business and the Environment at Yale University is hosting 2008 Yale Conservation Finance Camp, its second annual weeklong course on conservation finance, June 16 to June 20, 2008.

Co-sponsored by the Land Trust Alliance and limited to twenty participants, “the course provides a framework for analyzing and packaging a wide range of cutting-edge sources of private and public conservation finance, including new types of philanthropic funds, public capital and private investment. The focus is on useful, hands-on tools for conservation practitioners. The course will feature many experienced conservation financiers as presenters, along with a knowledgeable core faculty. Speakers will describe case studies in such emerging topics as ecosystem service payments, conservation investment firms, public bond initiatives and natural resource damage assessments.”

Camp faculty includes Story Clark, conservation consultant, author of A Field Guide to Conservation Finance (2007), and a director of the Tuckernuck Land Trust.