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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]