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.
A report on the progress of nine Iowa cities that have signed memoranda of understanding with the state Department of Natural Resources to establish watershed partnerships.
This report describes how to proliferate connections between point and nonpoint sources of nutrients to meet permit requirements and improve water quality.
This report, published with New Jersey Future, looks at the New Jersey Water Bank (NJWB), which has provided over $9 billion in low-cost financing for water and wastewater infrastructure projects in the state. The report analyzes NJWB awards (i.e. low interest loans and principal forgiveness) over a 5-year period and also assesses the underlying policies governing how New Jersey defines disadvantaged communities.
The report’s ten recommendations would increase the equity and effectiveness of the NJWB program and ensure that communities with the greatest needs receive adequate assistance.
An analysis of incentives driving forest management decisions by Maryland landowners and the current state of their coordination
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A Balancing Act: Optimizing Payment Schedules in Environmental Pay for Success Contracts
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Maryland Forest Stewardship Disalignment Report
An analysis of incentives driving forest management decisions by Maryland landowners and the current state of their coordination
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Maryland’s Conowingo Pay for Success Program Preliminary Information
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Procurement doesn’t need to be a choke point
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Case Study: Modernizing Restoration - Advancing restoration benefits tracking
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Biodiversity Net Gain: Understanding the Most Ambitious Biodiversity Policy in the World
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Chesapeake Currency: A current snapshot of private investment flowing into watershed conservation and restoration
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Pay for Success: Analyzing and Evaluating an Emerging Way of Government Contracting
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Pay for Success 101 Resource Guide
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Comment Letter on the National Nature Assessment
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The Time it Takes for Restoration: An Analysis of Mitigation Banking Instrument Timelines
Moving Wildlife
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Purchasing Environmental Progress
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Tribal Compensatory Mitigation
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WOTUS Explainer
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Promoting Tribal Roles in Providing Compensatory Mitigation Offsets
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Clean Water Act: Priorities for Offset Policies that Benefit the Environment and Communities
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A look at four new natural resource procurement bills
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Delivering Faster Restoration with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Funding
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