[Coral-List] Upcoming EBMTools / OCTO Webinar

[Raye Evrard]

Hi Coral List, 

I hope everyone is doing well. OCTO along with The Reef Resilience Network will be hosting a webinar that could be of interest to this group. The webinar will be an hour long (40min presentation, 20min Q&A). There will be a recording available afterwards on the OpenChannels.org/webinars <http://openchannels.org/webinars> site. This webinar is the third of our coral reef conservation finance series. Though you will not have had to attend the two previous. If you are interested in watching the previous presentations, links will be supplied below. A description for the upcoming is also below. The webinar will be presented twice to optimize time zones, please choose the one that fits you best! 

Financing Coral Reef Conservation and Management: Conservation Trust Funds and Impact Investing

Webinar: Financing Coral Reef Conservation and Management: Conservation Trust Funds and Impact Investing

Presented by: Kathryn Mathias of the Conservation Finance Alliance and WWF and Nicolas Pascal of Blue finance

This webinar will be offered at two different times:

Viewing 1: Wednesday, October 2, Noon US EDT/9 am US PDT/4 pm UTC <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DJrJb9gOTTODg_ajVS5EyA>
Viewing 2: Wednesday, October 2, 9 pm US EDT/6 pm US PDT (Thursday, October 3, 9 am Australian WST/11 am Australian EST/1 am UTC) <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_reEKuuJVT4KAHoWjPJVM9g>
Description: Coral reefs provide enormous economic value to humanity and are gaining increasing attention from donors, philanthropists, and governments. This webinar will explore the use of Conservation Trust Funds and Impact Investing to support coral reef conservation. Conservation Trust Funds (CTFs) are private, legally independent institutions that provide sustainable financing for biodiversity conservation. Impact Investing is investing in companies, organizations, and funds with the intention of generating measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Specifically, the webinar will discuss how protected area, national, and regional CTFs can raise, manage, and invest financing for coral reef conservation and restoration. The webinar will also review how impact investing can be used to manage coral reef areas through public private partnerships. This webinar is sponsored by the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), an informal partnership which strives to preserve coral reefs and related ecosystems around the world, as part of its collaboration with the Conservation Finance Alliance for promoting innovative financing for coral reef conservation.

Co-sponsors: OCTO (OpenChannels, The Skimmer, MPA News, EBM Tools Network) and the Reef Resilience Network

Register:

Viewing 1: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DJrJb9gOTTODg_ajVS5EyA <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DJrJb9gOTTODg_ajVS5EyA>
Viewing 2: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_reEKuuJVT4KAHoWjPJVM9g <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_reEKuuJVT4KAHoWjPJVM9g>

Previous webinars: 

Webinar 1: Finance Tools for Coral Reef Conservation: An Overview

https://www.openchannels.org/webinars/2019/finance-tools-coral-reef-conservation-overview <https://www.openchannels.org/webinars/2019/finance-tools-coral-reef-conservation-overview> 

Webinar 2: Financing Coral Reef Conservation and Management with Tourism-Related Tools

https://www.openchannels.org/webinars/2019/financing-coral-reef-conservation-and-management-tourism-related-tools <https://www.openchannels.org/webinars/2019/financing-coral-reef-conservation-and-management-tourism-related-tools> 

Hope to some you may attend!

Best, 
Raye


Raye Evrard, MMA
Project Manager 
OCTO | Open Communications for The Ocean
https://www.octogroup.org | https://www.openchannels.org
raye at octogroup.org
Seattle, Washington, USA (UTC-7)