Conservation often relies on short-term, project-based funding, a model that limits long-term planning, capacity building, and sustained results for biodiversity, climate, and communities. Yet lasting conservation success requires a more stable and programmatic approach to finance.

LLF’s upcoming Expert Talk, “A Dollar is Not Just a Dollar,” will bring together leading voices from across the conservation and finance sectors to discuss what additionality long-term financing can bring, and how its impact can be measured.

The session will explore questions such as:

• Impact of additionality of longer-term conservation finance security for conservation
• What mechanisms help balance long-term funding security and flexibility with accountability?
• How to measure and report this additionality?

Speakers from organizations including the Campaign for Nature, Wildlife Conservation Society, Fauna & Flora International, Arcadia, and IUCN will share perspectives on the call for long-term funding, lessons from implementation on the ground, donor expectations, and approaches to measuring additionality.

By gathering experts and practitioners, LLF aims to better understand how financial security over time can drive more durable conservation outcomes, and how to reflect these insights in its impact reporting framework.