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Florestas: O Setor Florestal nos Mercados Voluntarios de Carbono, Segunda Edição

By The Ecosystem Marketplace

Esta publicaçí£o visa apresentar os mercados de carbono aos usuí¡rios, em particular os mercados voluntí¡rios, e o atual clima para reflorestamento, florestamento e projetos REDD que geram créditos de carbono. Trata-se de uma coletí¢nea de artigos e um capí­tulo de livro encomendado pelo Ecosystem Marketplace.

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Além do Carbono: Mercados de Água e Biodiversidade

By The Ecosystem Marketplace

Este livro pretende servir de contexto e apresentar um hist’orico para a confer^encia Katoomba: “Evitando o Desmatamento na Amaz^onia por meio de Mercados de PSE”, realizada em Mato Grosso, Brasil em 2009. A confer^encia ‘e a d’ecima quarta de uma s’erie de confer^encias Katoomba planejadas para incentivar e fortalecer os mercados ambientais no mundo todo.

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Setting Buffer Sizes for Wetlands

By James M. McElfish, Jr., Rebecca L. Kihslinger, and Sandra Nichols

see PDF file for full text

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Planners Guide to Wetlands Buffers for Local Governments

By Environmental Law Institute

see attached PDF file for full text

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Conservation & Biodiversity Banking

By Nathaniel Carroll, Jessica Fox, & Ricardo Bayon

Conservation and Biodiversity Banking is the first comprehensive book on species mitigation banking. It provides practical guidance, tools, case studies, analysis, and insights into endangered species banking in the United States and abroad, and serves a handbook for a broad audience including private landowners, complying industries, regulating agencies, policy makers, bank developers, and interested general […]

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Forging a New Frontier: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2008

By Ecosystem Marketplace & New Carbon Finance

OTC 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 […]

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Forests: Taking Root in the Voluntary Carbon Markets

By The Ecosystem Marketplace Team

Over 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 […]

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The Matrix: Mapping Ecosystem Service Markets

By Nathaniel Carroll & Michael Jenkins

The 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. […]

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Diving into Water Markets

By Ecosystem Marketplace

The 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 […]

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Why Invest in Ecosystem Services: A Business Brief from Forest Trends

By Jackie Prince Roberts

Growing 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 […]