Strategy Development for Innovative Finance of Riparian Forest Buffer Programs
CompleteThe proposed Riparian Forest Buffer Outcomes Fund would help overcome barriers and create new incentives to plant more buffers.
Description
The Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chesapeake Bay Trust, and Chesapeake Bay Program, developed an innovative financing strategy to incentivize greater riparian forest buffer planting to meet the Forest Buffers goal in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. The proposed Riparian Forest Buffer Outcomes Fund would help overcome barriers and create new incentives to plant more buffers.