The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace

TOP STORY

The downward flow of water from Africa's Eastern Arc Mountains powers much of Tanzania's energy grid and provides drinking water for Dar es Salaam's four million people. Logging and agriculture, however, have disrupted the natural ecosystems that support the ancient catchments – resulting in torrents in the wet season and trickles in the dry. Can valuing those ecosystem services lead to their salvation? Second in a Series

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Carbon Mid-price* [3 month]

*CCX - 2008 | EU ETS - 2008 | NSW - Spot

09/03/2008 - 09/05/2008
Africa Carbon Forum 2008
Dakar, Dakar
Senegal
09/09/2008 - 09/10/2008
Harvested Wood Products in the Context of Climate Change Policies
Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva
Switzerland
09/10/2008 - 09/11/2008
Capitalising on Natural Resources. New Dynamics in the Financial Markets
Rueschlikon, Zurich
Switzerland

PROFILE

Jessica Salas: the Human Watershed For more than two decades, Jessica Salas has been helping the people of her native Philippines preserve the watersheds on which they are dependent. Along the way, she's learned a few things about what works and what doesn't. The Ecosystem Marketplace examines her career.

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FEATURED ARTICLES

Is the Future of Forest Offsets Already Here?

Many environmentalists believe the carbon market has the potential to promote healthy forest management in the United States, and the ...

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Keeping Abreast of BBOP Consultation Process

You can't offset what you can't measure, which is why the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program (BBOP) is asking for ...

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Mark Tercek: Investment Banker Brings Market Finesse to Conservation

The new head of the Nature Conservancy is a 24-year Goldman Sachs vet who thinks big and acts globally. ...

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The Dean of Dung is Back – and Full of Gas!

Self-described "manure trader" Peter Hughes made headlines for harnessing water quality trading to turn chicken dung ...

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Last Chance to Chime in on the Limits of Biodiversity Offsets!

To offset or to mitigate? That is the question being put to market practitioners in the first consultation phase ...

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Gold Standard Releases Version 2, Sets Deadline for Version 1 Applicants

The Gold Standard Foundation on Friday launched an upgraded version of its certification scheme, which it says "better enforces the ...

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VCS Opens Can of Registries

For nearly as long as there's been talk of a Voluntary Carbon Standard, VCS supporters have been haggling over how ...

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Chesapeake Vet Nees to Run Water Fund

When the Chesapeake Clean Water Fund launches later this year, its goal will be to jump-start a mosaic of water ...

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Making Wildlife Pay in Northern Tanzania

Ecotourism and sustainable trophy hunting have delivered verifiable conservation benefits in parts of Africa, but scaling up has proven difficult. ...

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PUBLICATIONS

Climate Change and Forestry: a REDD Primer

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over how to tackle climate change is the role of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in market-based mitigation strategies. The Ecosystem Marketplace summarizes the key issues.

EDITORIALS

Aguajales in Loreto, Peru: Environmental Services of the Aguajales and the Opportunities for a Global Business for the LoretoRegion
Angel Salazar of the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (Iquitos) has written an article on aguajales, palm tree forests that occupy 5.3 million hectares in the Peruvian Amazon and sequester large amounts of carbon. They play a role in the local economy through providing employment opportunities for local communities and by satisfying the high consumer demand for their fruit. Salazar's article describes the potential benefits offered by aguajales harvesting and calls for increased efforts for improved management of aguajales as well as for linking these ecosystems to environmental services payment schemes.