Landscape and Seascape Finance: Scale and Sustainability

It has long been understood that conservation must work at scale and achieve long-term sustained impacts to assure desired outcomes. Landscape and seascape approaches can reach the needed scale but pose unique challenges for sustained finance including institutional complexity, ecosystem diversity, conflicting interests of stakeholders, and multiple governance jurisdictions, among others. There are several active initiatives that seek to address these challenges and to secure finance at the landscape and seascape scales. This session will introduce the participants to these innovative approaches that include efforts to finance the 30x30 protected areas agenda through integrated multiple use landscape management finance.