Identifying and Prioritizing a Portfolio of Marine and Coastal Conservation Finance Solutions

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Presenters: David Meyers of the Conservation Finance Alliance, John Bohorquez of the Blue Economy Solutions Lab and the Conservation Finance Alliance, and Jos Hill of the Conservation Finance Alliance Marine & Coastal Working Group

Description: Coastal and marine ecosystem management and governance institutions face a wide array of choices when it comes to conservation finance mechanisms. A new tool provides a systematic method for brainstorming, defining, and prioritizing suitable finance solutions. This approach is rooted in the definition of conservation finance as "mechanisms and strategies that generate, manage, and deploy financial resources and align incentives to achieve nature conservation outcomes." In most cases, consistent and adequate funding is a critical but insufficient component of a project's conservation finance portfolio. This approach seeks to take the practitioner through a range of perspectives to generate ideas on how to solve their conservation challenges and respond to opportunities. The idea generation…