Earlier this year, Gabe Watson and EmmaLi Tsai participated in a workshop hosted by Defenders of Wildlife to help researchers create better maps at the intersection of environmental justice and conservation. Decisions from the workshop resulted in this user guide & website, which walks users through a more collaborate and inclusive approach to conservation that considers biodiversity, climate change, and environmental justice. To put the framework and shared principles into practice, the guide also features a case study using the National Wildlife Refuge System to show where future land acquisition should be prioritized.
At the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), our goal is to advance ecological restoration at scale, yet permitting costs consume up to ⅓ of project budgets. We need money to go to nature, not paperwork. Over the past two years, EPIC has quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed policies and processes related to restoration project permitting. Here we provide a case study of adoption of e-permitting technology that ameliorated many permitting bottlenecks.
Tim Male, Executive Director of EPIC, co-wrote an article in Ecosystem Marketplace with Mariana Sarmiento and Charles Bedford on how to close the biodiversity finance gap.
How could Maryland legislators build a sandbox for nature to accelerate restoration?
The US Department of Agriculture has contracted at least seven RCPP projects that used performance-based payments to buy environmental outcomes. This report profiles their challenges and successes.
Sand County Foundation and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center evaluate the successes, challenges, and immediate opportunities for watershed partnerships in the Midwest.

Pennsylvania’s Utilization of the Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) IIJA Funding

Funding Nature Not Paperwork 2.0: A Synthesis of Permitting Issues, Reforms, and a Strategy for Moving Forward

Ecosystem Marketplace: How We Harness an Infrastructure Boom to Close the Biodiversity Finance Gap
Tim Male, Executive Director of EPIC, co-wrote an article in Ecosystem Marketplace with Mariana Sarmiento and Charles Bedford on how to close the biodiversity finance gap.

Scaling Ecological Restoration & Nature-Based Solutions: A permitting innovation agenda for the next presidential administration

Biodiversity Credit Principles

Building a Thriving Biodiversity Credit Market

The Time it Takes for Restoration 2024 Update

Sandboxing Nature in Maryland Handout
How could Maryland legislators build a sandbox for nature to accelerate restoration?

A Revolving Loan Fund Could Help Protect Watersheds, Biodiversity and Public Access in America’s National Forests

A Balancing Act: Optimizing Payment Schedules in Environmental Pay for Success Contracts

How Government Grants Can Use Innovative Contracting Methods to Open Rivers for Fish

Funding Nature Not Paperwork - Policy and Programmatic Pathways to Speed Restoration Permitting

A riparian forest buffer outcomes fund for the Chesapeake Bay

Comment Letter on NOAA’s Equitable Climate Service Delivery RFI

Comment Letter on NEPA Implementing Regulations Phase 2

The Time it Takes for Restoration Companion Report: A Qualitative Analysis of Factors that Speed and Slow Mitigation Bank Approval Timelines

Conservation Banking in California: A Review of CDFW Approval Timelines and Insights from Stakeholders

Procurement doesn’t need to be a choke point

Biodiversity Net Gain: Understanding the Most Ambitious Biodiversity Policy in the World
