Overview An Exploration of Green Financing Strategies and Instruments for the Environmental & Conservation Sector on Southern Vancouver Island. Why This Conversation? Grants and philanthropy alone cannot meet the scale of conservation need across Southern Vancouver Island and the Capital Regional District. Emerging green finance and conservation finance instruments offer exciting possibilities - but navigating this landscape requires shared learning, local knowledge, and collaborative design. This interactive session brings together conservation practitioners, impact investors, catalytic philanthropists, and non-profit leaders to explore how blended finance tools can be deployed locally. Green financing instruments include many options, including but not limited to biodiversity credits, impact bonds and ecosystem services payments. Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT) has been working alongside UVic's BIOSCAN and Balance Co-Lab programs, plus other local partners to support the SC'IȺNEW̱ Nation in exploring the development of a Tribal Park. One goal of this research is to investigate various financing, governance, and monitoring programs that might be implemented. Case Study & Supporting Partners