Charting New Waters
State of Watershed Payments 2012
By Genevieve Bennett, Nathaniel Carroll, Katherine Hamilton View PublicationState of Watershed Payments 2012 is the second installment of the most comprehensive inventory to date of initiatives around the world that are paying individuals and communities to revive or preserve water-friendly features of the landscape. The number of initiatives that protect and restore forests, wetlands, and other water-rich ecosystems has nearly doubled in just four years while total investments topped $8.2 billion, according to the report, produced by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace.