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By Mark Nicholls
Barely four weeks after the launch of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the market has already gone through one collapse in the price of carbon allowances. The Ecosystem Marketplace takes a look at the EU ETS, its teething troubles, trading strategies, rain gods, and the weather in Scandinavia.
By Nat Gillespie
In the US, there has been experience with wetland mitigation banking for well over a decade. Now, mitigation is being increasingly applied to certain types of wetlands--streams and rivers--that carry with them some very specific problems and issues. As the practice of stream mitigation grows in the US, the Ecosystem Marketplace takes a look at the problems and the potential.
By Mark Poffenberger
Community Forestry International
As the concept of paying for the various services provided by ecosystems gains global acceptance, there are some questions surrounding how these markets will affect the rural poor. Based on his organization's experience in Asia--and India in particular--The Ecosystem Marketplace asked Mark Poffenberger to look at these issues, to draw some lessons, and to make some recommendations on how markets for ecosystem services can help communities at the same time that they help protect the environment.
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