Conservation Finance for Bushfire Risk Reduction: An Introduction to Blue Forest

​Australia is facing a growing bushfire crisis, and status-quo approaches to funding resilience are insufficient to meet the mounting challenges.

​Join Blue Forest for an introductory webinar exploring how conservation finance can unlock new capital and new partnerships to reduce bushfire risk across Australian landscapes.

​Blue Forest is a conservation finance non-profit founded in California that works with mission-aligned partners to adapt proven conservation finance models and approaches to new contexts to achieve landscape-scale resilience. In this session, we’ll introduce our vision and mission, share the story behind the Forest Resilience Bond (FRB), a financial model that has leveraged over USD $20M in private capital to reduce wildfire risk across the Western United States. We hope this will serve as the spark for many dialogues with you, experts working in Australia's bushfire and land management space, about your biggest challenges, where you might see conservation finance as a useful tool, and what you think is limiting landscape-scale resilience.

​What we'll cover:

• ​Who Blue Forest is and how we define conservation finance

• ​The Forest Resilience Bond: what it is, how it works, and the need it addresses

• ​An open conversation examining the critical challenges limiting the pace and scale of restoration efforts in Australia, and identifying what's needed to address them

• ​How to get involved: opportunities to collaborate, connect, and learn more

​This webinar is designed for Australian stakeholders and professionals who work on or care about wildfire risk reduction, as well as those interested in innovative finance as a tool for environmental impact. Whether you represent a government, a community, an industry, a conservation sector, or an investment community, we'd love to have you in the conversation.