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Katoomba VI: Beyond Carbon: Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services

Rüschlikon, Switzerland

The Katoomba VI workshop focused on frameworks for ecosystem service markets, including the roles of political institutions, bilateral and multilateral institutions as well as industry leadership through new initiatives such as the Equator Principles and the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative. Sector specific workshops explored the exposure of industries such as food and agriculture, mining, oil and […]

Katoomba IV: Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services

Kew, United Kingdom

The integrity of natural ecosystems is now recognized as being crucial to the health of global financial and capital market systems. Bringing together appropriate investors, buyers and sellers will help to maintain ecosystem services and assets, and will ensure continuing global prosperity and environmental security. A number of markets already have started to trade waste […]

Agriculture Water

Webinar: State of Private Investment in Conservation

Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace is pleased to announce the release of its newest report, State of Private Investment in Conservation 2016: A Landscape Assessment of an Emerging Market. This new report builds upon the 2014 report by EKO Asset Management Partners (now Encourage Capital) and The Nature Conservancy’s NatureVest, Investing in Conservation: A Landscape Assessment of […]

Webinar: Business and Deforestation – Are Companies Going to Meet Their Supply Chain Commitments?

Two years remain in the timetable for deforestation commitments laid out by the likes of the Consumer Goods Forum, the New York Declaration on Forests, and We Mean Business. While there is growing evidence that companies are setting goals to manage deforestation within their commodity supply chains – with now nearly 450 companies profiled on […]

Communities

Launch of Ashaninka Environmental Services Protocol in Acre, Brazil

Iorenka Atame Center , Marechal Taumaturgo, Brazil

Forest Trends’ Communities Initiative is excited to announce the launch of the Environmental Services Protocol of the Ashaninka People from the Kampa land of the Amí´nea River. The launch event will take place at the Iorenka Atame Center in Marechal Taumaturgo-Acre on April 8th at 16:00 ACT.  With this protocol, the Ashaninka reaffirm their role […]

How business can tackle deforestation: Asia under the lens

Unilever's Four Acres Singapore, Singapore

As a Supporting Partner, Forest Trends and Supply Change invite you to join us at the Innovation Forum conference bringing together multi-stakeholders in discussion around the latest trends and challenges companies face in removing deforestation from their supply chains, and to debate what measurable actions moving forward will be. Major corporations like Unilever, Sime Darby, […]

Agriculture Communities

Webinar! From raw materials to finished products

Global, Webinar

Canopy Bridge y Forest Trends te invitan al webinar “De materias primas a productos elaborados: ¿Vale la pena para pequeños y medianos productores?” este próximo Jueves 21 de Abril a las 10:00 am (hora en Quito, Bogotá, México D.F), con panelistas desde el Programa de Bosques Andinos, Kallari Chocolates y Universidad de Sao Paulo. Este […]

Water

IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition

Brisbane, Australia

The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition is the global event for water professionals. It offers new insights into how pioneering science, technological innovation and leading practices shape the major transformation in water management that is underway. It draws over 5,500 of the top water, environment and related professionals from more than 100 countries from […]

Biodiversity

2016 National Mitigation & Ecosystem Banking Conference

Omni Hotel & Convention Center, Fort Worth, USA

Headed to Texas in 2016, the National Mitigation Banking Association invites you to join them at its incredible conference on mitigation, conservation & ecosystem banking! Entering its 19th year, this Conference is well established as a “must attend event” for those in ecosystem banking, offering sessions for the very advanced to those new to banking. […]

Agriculture

2016 Global Sustainability Standards Conference

George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States

Join leaders in sustainability standards at the 7th annual conference from the ISEAL Alliance, from May 10 to 12, 2016 in Washington, D.C., to explore the theme of Growing Impacts: Innovation and Evolution. The 2016 Global Sustainability Standards Conference is the leading global event for those who support the uptake of credible sustainability standards. Bringing […]