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Water

Webinar: Water Footprinting

Water Footprinting and the Water Footprint Assessment are increasingly used by businesses and governments to assess their water risks, dependencies, and impacts. Now, some of its most advanced users are taking the next step and considering strategies and actions for reducing their water footprint and making it more sustainable. These water users, including companies like Nestlé and […]

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Climate

Global Webinar – Supply Change: Tracking Corporate Commitments to Deforestation-free Supply Chains, 2016

Washington, D.C., United States

Join leading experts on commodity deforestation for a panel discussion co-hosted by Forest Trends and Innovation Forum featuring the new report, Supply Change: Tracking Corporate Commitments to Deforestation-free Supply Chains, 2016.  Register for the webinar here. Tuesday, July 12, 2016 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT In this informative webinar, leading experts on commodity deforestation will discuss […]

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Water

Webinar: Alliances for Green Infrastructure

Forest Trends is pleased to invite you to a free webinar to explore findings from our latest report: Alliances for Green Infrastructure: State of Watershed Investment 2016. The report summarizes data from Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace’s semi-annual global survey of program developers to estimate the size, scope, and scale of market mechanisms for green infrastructure. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress

Hawaii, USA

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Council has selected Hawaii, United States of America, as the host of the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress – the world’s largest conservation event. Held every four years, the Congress brings together leaders from government, the public sector, non-governmental organizations, business, UN agencies and indigenous and grass-roots […]