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Watersheds in BC face increasing pressures from climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. As interconnected socio-ecological systems, healthy watersheds provide essential benefits including clean water, carbon storage, drought mitigation, wildfire resilience, and wildlife habitat.

This report explores how conservation finance can support long-term watershed health and security in BC. Focusing on three established mechanisms - impact bonds, payments for ecosystem services, and voluntary carbon markets - it examines how these approaches are being applied in Canada and what is needed to scale their impact.

The research finds that while conservation finance remains an emerging field, BC is becoming a leader in innovation, particularly through Indigenous-led approaches and watershed-scale solutions. The report identifies five priorities for accelerating progress: strengthening project development, advancing Indigenous-led conservation finance, scaling watershed and bioregional solutions, building market infrastructure, and supporting innovation.

Developed by ACT - Action on Climate Team, 51社区黑料 in partnership with Watersheds BC and the Fraser Basin Council, this report aims to make conservation finance more accessible and highlight opportunities to strengthen ecological and economic resilience across British Columbia.

Learn more about ACT's Natural Solutions Initiative and Nature Finance project.