<<Initiative Home << All Initiatives A new movement, linking food, conservation and communities is taking shape in the Amazon. Forest Trends, Canopy Bridge and some of Latin America’s best-known and most influential chefs are looking to use the Amazon’s vast cornucopia of healthy ingredients and traditional cuisines to bring the flavors and nutrition […]
Peru’s National Service of Natural Protected Areas (SERNANP), in co-management with the Asociación para la Investigación y Desarrollo Integral (AIDER) and with financial support from Althelia Ecosphere, is implementing the REDD+ Tambopata Bahuaja-Sonene Project as part of the Partial Administration Contract for the Tambopata National Reserve (RNTAMB) and the Bahuaja-Sonene National Park (PNBS), both NPAs […]
Update: In this interview with SUNASS, Peru’s national water regulator, Forest Trends Founding President and CEO Michael Trends explains the objectives of Katoomba Marketplace: Latin America. Forest Trends, the Katoomba Group, the National Superintendency of Sanitation Services of Peru (SUNASS), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation are pleased to host Katoomba Marketplace […]
Oportunidades de Inversión en Infraestructura Verde América Latina Casa Andina Private Collection, Miraflores Los usuarios del agua, los operadores de agua potable y los gobiernos reconocen cada vez más la importancia de los servicios que ofrecen los ecosistemas, como filtración, regulación, y recarga, a sus cuencas y sistemas de agua potable. Por su lado, los […]
Governments and businesses around the world have recognized the urgent need to act on climate change, and scientists have identified powerful tools to mitigate and adapt to its effects. Now, the challenge is finding the funding necessary to translate political will and technical know-how into effective climate action. Bolstering our planet’s first line of defense […]
Healthy ecosystems not only reduce greenhouse gas pollution storing carbon; they also help us adapt to the intensifying effects of a changing climate. This holistic strategy for mitigation and adaptation requires a coordinated approach at multiple levels: international, national, and subnational (e.g., states and cities), as well as the private sector. Strong public policy is […]
30 October 2017 | Environmental NGOs, major banks, and strategic consulting groups rarely agree on anything, but almost all agree that our governments haven’t allocated nearly enough money to meeting the climate and conservation challenge – certainly not enough to slow or reverse the trends, and definitely not enough to roll with the calamitous changes that […]
New Video Nestled deep in the Brazilian Amazon along the Peruvian border, the state of Acre contains about 15 million hectares of land – most of which remains pristine virgin rainforest. It’s also home to thousands of indigenous people, who serve an invaluable role as stewards of the Amazonian rainforest. Supporting these communities is essential if […]
10 October 2017 | US Environmental Protection Agency boss Scott Pruitt is set to withdraw from the Obama era’s Clean Power Plan today, and he says it’s because the plan is an expensive, unfair, and unprecedented intrusion by government into energy markets. He’s wrong, of course. The Power Plan, which slashes greenhouse-gas emission from the […]
13 September 2017 | US Environmental Protection Agency boss Scott Pruitt says that anyone who mentions climate change in these times of imminent crisis and danger is putting the people of Florida at risk. Seriously. He said it after leading climate scientists wrote that higher temperatures and higher water levels certainly ratcheted up the intensity […]