Innovating Conservation LLC (ICONS)
a B-corporation
Where Business Bonds with Biodiversity
ICONS
Innovations in Conservation
ICONS provides consulting and training in climate resilience and nature-based solutions for businesses, financial institutions, government, NGOs, foundations, indigenous and local communities, and civil society. Our mission is to ensure a world with ecologically and financially resilient and enduring ecosystems. We work closely with clients to manage risks and connect decisions and actions that connect business, working landscapes, and nature.
Our diverse network of consultants with deep professional experience across more than 60 countries allows us to integrate the work of climate adaptation and mitigation, conservation finance, sustainable business development, and biodiversity conservation to produce a unique 21st century approach to conservation practice.
Services
Biodiversity and Climate Resilience
Conservation Project Design, Management, and Evaluation
Leadership Training and Coaching
Product Feasibility and Evaluation
Strategic Planning and Sustainable Finance
Conservation Trust Fund Design, Implementation, and Operations
Public and Private Blended Finance Strategies and Alliances
Sustainable Banking Practices and ESG Standards
“The 20th Century gave us great conservation leaders who inspired us to go outside and save what was left of our big wild places. Now we need a 21st Century conservation that will produce new leaders from the worlds of civil society, business, and finance to create economies that value these wild places in every transaction.”
Jim Tolisano, ICONS Co-Founder
Recent Projects
Egypt - red sea conservation trust
We are leading a public/private effort to establish and empower an independent Egyptian non-profit foundation to bring together government, local communities, and private sector organizations to conserve the globally significant Red Sea coral reef ecosystems and ensure sustainable, green development in surrounding areas.
First Nations - Conservation Finance Strategy
We work in collaboration with the Coastal First Nations, Nanwakolas Council, and Coast Funds, a unique indigenous conservation trust to support the financial sustainability of the world’s first indigenous-led network of marine protected areas and nature-based economic development for indigenous communities within the Northern Shelf marine ecosysems in coastal British Columbia.
Barbados - environmental sustainability find
ICONS provides training and technical support to the Inter-American Development Bank and the Government of Barbados in the design, implementation, and operationalization of the newly established Barbados Environmental Sustainability Fund (BESF) and associated Marine Spatial Planning process.