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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 […]

Biodiversity

Valuing Ecosystem Services on Conservation Lands 101 Webinar

Webinar, Washington D.C., United States

Scientists, governments, and businesses are gaining a greater understanding of the economic benefits derived from protecting and enhancing natural ecosystems. Landowners have a significant opportunity to derive additional revenue by selling credits from the natural benefits that conservation easements create into the ecosystem service markets. This webinar will provide an introduction to this emerging area […]

Climate

Webinar – Buying In: Taking Stock of the Role of Offsets in Corporate Carbon Strategies

Washington, D.C., United States

Join Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace and IETA for a free webinar to explore the findings of our newest report, Buying In: Taking Stock of the Role of Offsets in Corporate Carbon Strategies. Ecosystem Marketplace has been tracking the carbon markets for over a decade, and this new report complements this research with a deep-dive into the […]

Communities

Launch of the Yawanawa Life Plan in Acre, Brazil

Ceremonial Center Tuinkuru, São Vicente, Brazil

Forest Trends’ Communities Initiative is excited to join the Yawanawa people of Acre, Brazil as they celebrate the launch of their Life Plan. The event will take place in the village of São Vicente, Tarauacá-Acre on April 3rd at 16:30 ACT. The Yawanawa Life Plan establishes how land should be managed in order to preserve their forests and the […]

Talks on Ecosystem Services and Communities

São Paulo & Belém, Brazil

The practice of payments for ecosystem services (PES) can be a strategy to ensure environmental preservation. PES has a social and environmental role, but there needs to be safeguards in place to ensure the protection of traditional and local communities’ rights, and the environment.  In 2015, Forest Trends established the Brazil Matrix, which mapped existing […]

Water

World Water Week

Stockholm City Conference Centre, Stockholm, Sweden

World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. It is organized by SIWI (Stockholm International Water Institute). This year was the jubilee year for both the Week and the Stockholm Water Prize. The theme was Water for Development. In 2015, over 3,000 individuals and close to 300 convening […]

Deforestation forum: How business can tackle deforestation

Pew Conference Center, Washington, DC, USA

As part of a broader, global series of meetings, including London and Singapore, this forum will bring together key corporate practitioners, NGOs and governmental representatives for a post COP21 outlook, to discuss and debate how far we have come in tackling deforestation risks, implementing policies and collaborating effectively. There will be focused debates and practical […]