Events

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: 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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]