Conservation Finance at IUCN

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Conservation Finance at IUCN
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• What is IUCN Doing?
• knowledge, empowerment and governance
• Protected Areas Program which has a focus on
  protected areas finance
• New Conservation Finance Program
• -- former donor relations group, now looking
  at raising funds for nature on a union-wide basis
  
• Business and Biodiversity Initiative

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Business Biodiversity Initiative
Bringing the IUCN Mission to the Private
Sector
1. Corporate Biodiversity Strategies work --
Business Biodiversity Handbook 2. Biodiversity
Business Investment -- Kijani, European
Conservation Farming Initiative (ECFI) and
Biodiversity Capital Fund. 3. Business Plans
for Nature -- ex. WCPA Initiative, Komodo,
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Kijani Promoting biodiversitybusiness in Africa
Kijani focuses on African ventures which
generate sustainable returns for investors
conserve biodiversity.
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Key Features of Kijani

• The Kijani Bio-Service
• pre-investment support forAfrican
  bio-entrepreneurs
• The Kijani Bio-Fund
• capital for sustainable African biodiversity
  business ventures

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• New Project
• Financial Strategies for Protected Areas and
  Sustainable Landscapes
• Policy dialogues
• Pilot projects
• World Parks Congress Park
• Finance Program

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Geographic internationalSector Business, park
systems Mechanisms investment funds,
ecotourism fees, concessions

• Focus

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Delivery System Staffing 3 in house plus
consultants Expertise envir. econ, business
management, policy analysis, finance Tools
pipeline development, feasibility
analysis, biodiversity business plans, market
assessments, biodiversity economics.org Gaps
legal, marketing
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Role in the Conservation Finance
Alliance Needs identification of potential
sites for pilot projects and potential
biodiversity investments Contributions Lessons
learned from investment funds and protected areas
finance initiatives