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World Wildlife Fund Center for Conservation Finance. Presentation for Conservation Finance Retreat Melissa Moye February 11, 2002. WWF Center for Conservation Finance. Created in 2000 based on conservation finance unit – operating since 1980s - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
World Wildlife FundWorld Wildlife Fund
Center for Conservation Center for Conservation FinanceFinance
Presentation for Conservation Finance Retreat
Melissa Moye
February 11, 2002
WWF WWF
Center for Conservation Center for Conservation FinanceFinance
Created in 2000 based on conservation finance unit – operating since 1980s
Mission is to dramatically increase the amount of sustainable, long-term funding for global conservation
Primary client base: WWF’s worldwide network
Budget: $1 million +
ObjectivesObjectives
To consolidate the gains WWF has already made with conservation finance mechanisms such as debt-for-nature swaps and conservation trust funds, and to promote their broader application in WWF’s priority ecoregions, species conservation program, and global threats program
ObjectivesObjectives
To create new financial instruments and sources to support the sustainable funding of these conservation programs, including their testing under field conditions
FocusFocus
Geographic: worldwide based on WWF 200 ecoregions in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America and US
Sectoral: forestry, marine, species, climate
Mechanisms: Planning Mechanisms: Planning InitiativesInitiatives
Program Management Plans (3)– Brazilian Amazon– Terai Arc (Nepal)– Meso-American Reef (Belize, Guatemala,
Honduras, Mexico)
Central Africa Forests Financing Study– Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic,
Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon
Mechanisms: Conservation Mechanisms: Conservation Trust FundsTrust Funds
15 – 20 candidates Active (8):
– Madagascar– Namibia– Terai Arc– Vietnam– Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef– Argentina (Missiones)– Amazon Region Protected Areas– Kamchatka
MechanismsMechanisms
Debt-for-Nature Argentina Russia
– Tropical Forest Conservation Act and Coral Reef Coastal Marine Conservation Act
Peru (TFCA - 2002) Philippines (TFCA - 2002) Future priorities: Belize, Colombia, Ecuador,
Gabon, India, Indonesia, Paraguay, Thailand
Mechanisms: Investment Mechanisms: Investment FundsFunds
Asian Conservation Corporation (Philippines)
Green Investment Fund (Russia)
Mechanisms: Tourism TaxesMechanisms: Tourism Taxes
– Tubbataha dive fee– Bali – airport or dive fee– Maldives – airport or dive fee
Mechanisms: Communities Mechanisms: Communities and Poverty Reductionand Poverty Reduction
Successful Communities– integrating community development, health,
education with conservation in the Eastern Himalayas
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)– Integrating the environment into Poverty
Reduction Strategies in HIPC countries
New Mechanisms: Carbon, New Mechanisms: Carbon, WatershedWatershed
Evaluating sitesBuilding expertiseDeveloping guidelinesAnalyzing fundraising potential
StaffingStaffing
6 full-time, 1 part-time staff in Washington3 affiliated staff in Washington and
CaliforniaConservation finance consultant in
YaoundeConservation finance consultant in Moscow
ExpertiseExpertise
Banking: commercial and investment (2)Conservation management (3)Languages: Chinese (1), French (4),
Japanese (1), Portuguese (1), Russian (1), Spanish (6)
Legal: domestic (2), foreign (2)Specialized: carbon, corporate finance, debt
swaps, trust funds, user fees
Tools and GapsTools and Gaps
Quarterly Review Program Day– Internal review
Consultations within WWF Network– Participation in planning meetings– Large-scale Program Management Task Force
Creation of private sector advisory board– Brainstorming– Fundraising
NeedsNeeds
Training guide (especially case studies)Targeted capacity building for selected sites
or regions (China, Central Africa)Promoting a common policy agenda
– Setting standards for carbon deals– Promoting TFCA and coral reef debt swaps
Sharing information about new mechanismsCollaboration on projects on selective basis
ContributionsContributions
Case studiesField testing of mechanisms in variety of
settingsTools developed through large-scale
program managementLegal modelsWorld-wide network