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 Vol. 2, No. 5: June 2, 2006
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by Alice Kenny
The one-year old European Emissions Trading Scheme received its first annual report card on May 15, 2006. The Ecosystem Marketplace asks the experts to weigh in on the market's successes and failures in the wake of the report.
Researchers Find Payments for Ecosystem Services Present Challenges, Opportunities in Southeast Asia
by Alana Semuels
A team of researchers is working to refine payments for ecosystem services (PES) in Vietnam and Thailand. The Ecosystem Marketplace checks in on their progress.
by Teddy Krolik
The Argentine Carbon Fund was the first carbon fund launched in the developing world in 2005. The Ecosystem Marketplace checks in to see how the Fund is progressing.
by Erik Ness
After years of planning, Pennsylvania is finally poised to begin water quality trading. The Ecosystem Marketplace checks in with one business eager for the bell to ring.
by Steve Zwick
The World Bank says sales of CER projects have helped developing countries raise billions for clean development projects and offset the equivalent of 374 million tons of CO2 in the past year and a half, with Europe and Japan accounting for 90% of the buying. The Ecosystem Marketplace reviews the findings.
by Charis Anderson
April 2006 was a big month for climate change policy in California. In the third article of a series about climate change policy in the United States, the Ecosystem Marketplace checks in to find out what went on in the Golden State.
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OPINION
by Bradley I. Raffle
In a guest editorial for the Ecosystem Marketplace, Bradley I. Raffle of the Texas-based law firm, Baker Botts LLP, argues that if we are to save much of the U.S.'s suburban and peri-urban land, then we need to look at ways that mitigation and conservation banking approaches can be refined to provide meaningful incentives for conservation on private land.
PROFILE
by Cameron Walker
More than a century ago, Gifford Pinchot began managing U.S. forests as the first chief of the Forest Service. Since then, the agency's protected areas have grown from 56 million acres to 193 million acres. The Ecosystem Marketplace finds out how Sally Collins, associate chief of the Forest Service, is turning all this land into a living lab for studying ecosystem services.
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