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Vol. 1, No. 1: April 24, 2006
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The Ecosystem Marketplace's Community Forum
Connecting people to ecosystem markets
We are pleased to launch a targeted newsletter for suppliers of ecosystem services around the world. The Community Forum was created for ecosystem service providers and all those who work and interact with them. The Ecosystem Marketplace currently has (and will continue to develop): tools, features, profiles and other content related to improving the capacity of community providers of ecosystem services. This newsletter will link you to that content, developing a global network of ecosystem service providers that will help make the work of communities and their support institutions more effective.
Translations of the community-related content of the Ecosystem Marketplace into Spanish and Portuguese are in process, and environmental service experts in the burgeoning Regional Katoomba Groups will continue to improve the "community face" of The Ecosystem Marketplace. Stay connected and feed in to the process!
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Carina Bracer
Beto Borges
Amanda Hawn
Ricardo Bayon
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by Ree Strange Sheck
A new system devised by the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) pays cattle farmers to adopt silvopastoral practices that increase the production of both cattle and ecosystem services. The Ecosystem Marketplace takes a look.
by Jennifer Austin
More and more agencies are expressing interest in the concept of payments for ecosystem services (PES) in rural Africa. The Ecosystem Marketplace finds out whether or not they are on to something.
by Cameron Walker
Since 2002, an innovative program has been working to offer the upland poor better options to improve their livelihood and protect the environment. RUPES – Rewarding Upland Poor for Ecosystem Services They Provide – works intensively at six action research sites in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Nepal. The Ecosystem Marketplace takes a trip through Asia.
by Stephanie Saline
When people and big predators share the land, economic and social costs can complicate species conservation. The Ecosystem Marketplace spotlights a Defenders of Wildlife program that puts the organization's money where its mouth is.
by Alana Semuels
As increasing numbers of Central and Eastern European countries join the European Union, an era of transition is afoot for rural landowners in the Danube River Basin. Hoping to lock in positive environmental changes, rather than negative ones, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is using the period of transition to promote payments for ecosystem services along one of Europe's most historic rivers. The Ecosystem Marketplace takes a look.
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by Ricardo Bayon
For years forestry carbon--paying for the carbon sequestered by trees--has been the subject of intense debate among those interested in the world's carbon markets. Critics claim these projects are all about greenwashing, naysayers say they are difficult to monitor and skeptics charge they lead to large plantations of eucalyptus. But, while the debate around forestry carbon rages, a forestry carbon project in Uganda has benefited local communities, local biodiversity and local businesses while, arguably, helping the global climate. The Ecosystem Marketplace profiles Beatrice Ahimbisibwe, one of the program's local participants.
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by Toby Janson-Smith
On March 29th, 2006, the World Bank convened a group of policymakers to review options for including forestry credits in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Toby Janson-Smith, Director of the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance, gives the Ecosystem Marketplace an insider's take on the discussions.
by Sissel Waage
Forest Trends recently conducted a study of the obstacles impeding the uptake of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the developing world. The Ecosystem Marketplace asks Sissel Waage, consultant with Forest Trends, what these obstacles are and what is needed to overcome them.
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An Excel based macro-driven project calculator from The Nature Conservancy. The purpose of the calculator is to allow the user to estimate the potential carbon tonnage sequestered from a specific ecosystem project area and the associated costs of creating and maintaining the project. The calculator is intended to produce "first cut" estimates for a forty-year project feasibility study. Outputs include: carbon sequestered annually and over project term, project investment required and capital reserve required to offset market volatility, etc.
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Taller Regional Compensación de Servicios Ambientales y Alivio de Pobreza en América Latina. Quito, Ecuador.
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