ICONS
Where Business Meets Biodiversity
ICONS
Innovations in Conservation
ICONS provides consulting and training in climate resilience and nature-based solutions to 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 deep professional experience across more than 60 countries and diverse network of consultants 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
Leadership Training and Coaching
Conservation Project Design, Management, and Evaluation
Messaging and Marketing
Environmental Impact Assessment and Evaluation
Biodiversity Mitigation and Offsets: Ecosystem Services Project Development
Strategic Planning
Leadership Training and Coaching
Sustainable Banking Practices and ESG Standards
Government and Private Conservation Finance Strategies
Conservation Trust Fund Design, Implementation, and Operations
“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
Current Projects
Eastern Africa - Strategic and Business Planning
ICONS facilitated the development of an innovative strategic plan and business plan to guide the work of Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA), the leading marine science institution serving east and south African and Indian Ocean nations.
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.
U.S.A. (New York) - Land Conservation Planning
The ICONS team developed a comprehensive conservation plan for the Rensselaer Land Trust, a private land conservation trust in the Adirondacks region of New York State.