Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Written by: Sean Penrith This is the fourth in a five-part Innovative Finance for National Forests (IFNF) Insights Brief Series produced by Gordian Knot Strategies, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, and the U.S. Forest Service. Each brief distills a core lesson…
Welcome to the May edition of the Virtus newsletter! This month, we follow the money – from record-breaking carbon pricing revenues to sovereign green bonds in Africa, and from a landmark reforestation close to one of the most innovative blended finance structures we’ve seen all year. In Our Take, Sean Penrith continues the IFNF Field…
In conservation finance, “community engagement” has become almost reflexive. Projects mention it in their opening paragraphs, check the box in their logic models, and schedule a round of stakeholder meetings before implementation begins. Yet across the Innovative Finance for National Forests (IFNF) program, this language often masked a deeper problem: communities were being informed about decisions, not invited to shape them.
Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Written by: Sean Penrith This is the third in a five-part Innovative Finance for National Forests (IFNF) Insights Brief Series produced by Gordian Knot Strategies, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, and the U.S. Forest Service. Each brief distills a core lesson…
Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Written by: Jay Tipton Back in March, we introduced our partnership with City Forest Credits and made the case for why urban forest carbon is one of the most underrated assets in carbon markets. Well, we have a proud milestone to share. The…
