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CBI works at all levels—local, state, regional, national, and international. Below you can find out more about our work at different scales.

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  • Beyond Oil: Promoting Inclusive Development in Nigeria

    Beyond Oil: Promoting Inclusive Development in Nigeria

    CBI launches a national, multi-stakeholder forum to catalyze the diversification of Nigeria’s economy and government revenue sources in support of broad-based, sustainable development.

    October 23, 2025

    Supported by the Ford Foundation, and in partnership with the New Nigeria Foundation, CBI convenes a multi-stakholder Forum for Inclusive Nigerian Development (FIND). FIND works with national and state leaders and citizens to drive the use of oil and gas revenue for sustainable, inclusive development.

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  • Bolstering Palm Oil Value Chain Sustainability

    Bolstering Palm Oil Value Chain Sustainability

    CBI created a positive impact through a comprehensive palm oil reporting guidance initiative.

    October 23, 2025

    CBI and Ceres bring together a coalition of organizations and investors, working to advocate for and support implementation of corporate non-deforestation palm oil commitments, to align on a shared set of expectations for greater transparency and consistent reporting on palm oil value chain sustainability.

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  • Bringing the Tools of Consensus Building to Sustainable Heritage Management Practice

    Bringing the Tools of Consensus Building to Sustainable Heritage Management Practice

    CBI serves as consultant to the Getty Conservation Institute on improving heritage professionals' capacity engage stakeholders on sustainable heritage management.

    October 23, 2025

    CBI serves as consultant to the Getty Conservation Institute on a project to improve heritage professionals' capacity to constructively engage stakeholders around the sustainable management of cultural heritage places.

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  • Building a Northeast Oceans Regional Plan

    Building a Northeast Oceans Regional Plan

    CBI helped stakeholders create a plan for coordinating multiple uses of Northeast waterways.

    October 23, 2025

    CBI facilitates public forums across New England to provide citizen input into how to develop shared data and methods, and coordinate effectively among federal and state agencies for wide-ranging uses of U.S. territorial waters in the northeast Atlantic for the Northeast Regional Planning Body.

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  • Building Capacity for Mediation with the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board

    Building Capacity for Mediation with the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board

    CBI helps the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board build its capacity for mediation by providing customized trainings, revising their policies, and evaluating program effectiveness.

    October 23, 2025

    CBI helps the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board build its capacity for mediation by providing customized trainings, revising their policies, and evaluating the effectiveness of their program.

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  • Building Consensus on Improving Cape Cod Water Quality

    Building Consensus on Improving Cape Cod Water Quality

    CBI used public engagement and stakeholder input to improve water quality planning in a vulnerable coastal region on Cape Cod.

    October 23, 2025

    The Cape Cod Commission asks CBI to facilitate citizen engagement in a process to develop a regional plan to address the region's wastewater management problems, and generate a more effective and efficient regulatory environment for watershed plannng.

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Partial List of Convenors/Clients

  • Boston Harbor Now

  • Boston Planning and Development Agency

  • Boulder County

  • Bridgestone Americas

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs

  • Bureau of Land Management

  • Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

  • California Department of Water Resources

  • Cape Cod Commission

  • Cargill Incorporated

  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Casa de la Paz

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Chesapeake Bay Funders Network

  • Chesapeake Bay Trust

  • Chevron