Absolutely. It's where, actually, the magic can happen.
My organization uses all the available information to look at where the most important places are to do conservation work for the outcomes we want. When we work with our industry partners, we already know that they also want to have good outcomes in the communities they're working in. They have some financial requirements that they're going to have to invest in offsetting in some cases, and in other cases, they just know it's good business sense. They're actually going above regulatory requirements in order to make sure they're doing the right thing in their communities.
What we can do together, though, is to take that and blend financing. This is something that we really have not unlocked in this country: being able to take philanthropic dollars from private donors who want conservation outcomes. If they can get it through blending finance of public dollars and other private investments, and having a big conservation outcome, that is a fabulous way to leverage financing.
