We’ve partnered with CPIC to amplify their sectoral work through landscape approaches to finance.
Since launching in September 2016, the Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation (CPIC), a global multi-stakeholder initiative, has focused on enabling private, return-seeking investment in conservation projects. Now, EcoAgriculture Partners is teaming up with this powerhouse to help its members work out how to take a landscape approach to conservation finance.
Comprised of researchers, private and public sector financial institutions, and leading civil society organizations, the Coalition develops investment models that yield solid financial and environmental returns.
These models, or ‘blueprints’, are crafted in CPIC’s Working Groups which focus on five priority investment sectors: coastal resilience, forest landscape conservation and restoration, green infrastructure for watershed management, sustainable agricultural intensification, and sustainable coastal fisheries.
Addressing interconnections to scale impact
With years of expertise developing tools that facilitate landscape dialogue and measure impact at a landscape scale, EcoAgriculture Partners recognized the importance of landscape framing in generating multiple objectives from conservation-focused investments. We joined with other CPIC partners including IUCN Netherlands and WWF’s Landscape Finance Lab to launch a new working group within CPIC to focus on these important issues, and work to scale the impact of the other five sectoral working groups.
The Landscape working group was announced at the CPIC members meeting on January 10th, and its first in-person meeting took place on January 11th at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City.
Work plan set, task forces formed, all aboard
At the inaugural meeting, as priorities were defined and task forces were formed, participants affirmed that this group could be very supportive of CPIC’s other working groups as they think through the investment implications of the context in which their ‘blueprints’ operate. They will also work to identify successful coordination strategies for multi-project landscape investment.
By getting CPIC members to think critically about the landscape context and learn more about integrated investment models at the landscape scale, the working group has the potential to substantially advance the field of conservation finance so that it is more successful in both its financial and conservation objectives.