Forging a New Frontier: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2008
By Ecosystem Marketplace & New Carbon FinanceOTC volume of voluntary emission offsets nearly tripled in 2007, and Ecosystem Marketplace has once again teamed up with New Carbon Finance to crunch and analyze this fascinating market. The full report is now available for download. Subtitled “Forging the Frontier” to highlight the emergence of more than twenty independent standards for verifying and validating […]
Forests: Taking Root in the Voluntary Carbon Markets
By The Ecosystem Marketplace TeamOver the past year, the term 'REDD' (reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation) has risen from obscure acronym to hot-button issue for policymakers, conservation groups, investors and academics across the globe, with good reason: deforestation accounts for roughly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions—more emissions than the transportation sector world-wide. While the role of REDD […]
The Matrix: Mapping Ecosystem Service Markets
By Nathaniel Carroll & Michael JenkinsThe once-radical concept of saving the environment by documenting the economic value of environmental services and then getting industry to pay is finally catching on – but how is one to keep track of all the new methodologies and concepts? The Ecosystem Marketplace presents The Matrix, a new tool for surveying the ecosystem services landscape. […]
Diving into Water Markets
By Ecosystem MarketplaceThe use of markets and market-based mechanisms to conserve and pay for ecosystem services is a growing global trend that has gained a solid foothold through both the regulated and voluntary carbon markets and is rapidly gaining traction in the water markets. Furthermore, it is a trend that is no longer solely important to environmentalists […]
Setting Buffer Sizes for Wetlands
By James M. McElfish, Jr., Rebecca L. Kihslinger, and Sandra Nicholssee PDF file for full text
Planners Guide to Wetlands Buffers for Local Governments
By Environmental Law Institutesee attached PDF file for full text
Why Invest in Ecosystem Services: A Business Brief from Forest Trends
By Jackie Prince RobertsGrowing recognition of the value of ecosystem services creates strategic risks and opportunities for companies. Forest Trends' "Why Invest in Ecosystem Services: A Business Brief from Forest Trends" provides a short overview of these emerging issues, and discusses how investments in ecosystem services can be used as a management tool and can create an array […]
Mitigation News v2.3
This daily conference newsletter was produced to provide participants with feature articles on relevant issuses and to provide summary and insight on the previous day’s sessions.
A New Markets for Environmental Services: A Corporate Manager's Guide to Trading in Air, Climate, Water, and Biodiversity Assets
The natural environment provides society with essential services—such as clean air and reliable flows of clean water—which are increasingly being valued in financial terms. Environmental markets— some regulatory and others voluntary—are now trading credits as well as derivatives. Regulatory environmental markets are operating in Europe, the U.S., Australia and other countries around the world. Voluntary […]
Business and Technical Support Services for Project Implementation
By Forest TrendsA listing of existing support services for different elements of project implementation.