Ecosystem Marketplace publisher Forest Trends has named eight new FT Fellows for 2015. These individuals are recognized for their efforts to promote collaboration among all segments of the environmental community, from businesses to governments to civil society.
Partnership is at the heart of Forest Trends’ mission; it’s “in our DNA.” Since Forest Trends was founded in 1998, the organization has strived to remain at once small, global, and nimble – able to respond quickly to emerging opportunities and challenges in the conservation arena. Our versatility in large part depends on our ability […]
The global water crisis will hit everyone from brewers to bakers hard, but it’s still the rare company that steps up to conserve watersheds. Several participants at a World Water Week event last week highlighted the need to entice private actors into partnerships with public entities by spreading both awareness and risk.
In the past half-century, mankind has destroyed half our planet’s tropical rainforests to harvest timber and make way for cattle, palm, and soybean farms. But forests yield an incredible array of fruits and fibers not found anyplace else, and we don’t have to destroy the forest to harvest them. In fact, “gastronomic tourism” is emerging as a new way to save the forests – and it has a surprising pedigree.
Bettina helped launch EFM Investments and Advisory and joined as CEO in 2008. EFM has over $200M in capital under management and advisement and manages 130,000 acres in the western US on behalf of investors for carbon sequestration, biodiversity, water protection, timber production, rural job creation and tribal land repatriation, as well as advising on […]
World Water Week opened this week on August 23 which means sustainable water management is on a lot of minds and on Monday, several attendees attempted to pinpoint the true value of water. They found that valuation of water is on the rise as multiple sectors, including the financial, are seeking to understand its role and risks better.
This Sunday marks the beginning of World Water Week 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 1991, the event has brought together experts, practitioners, policymakers, and business actors from around the world to explore critical issues around water. In that time, water stress and water scarcity have emerged as some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. The UN estimates that by 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population may be living under water stressed conditions. As our global community strives to curb and adapt to climate change, it is increasingly urgent that we work together to develop innovative solutions to water challenges; World Water Week provides a crucial springboard for sharing ideas to help solve these problems.
Since June, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has received a flurry of climate plans as the climate talks in Paris loom ever closer. And while these carbon-cutting plans are complex and varied, many of them include concrete objectives regarding forests and land use.
From Lima to Jakarta to the Hague, angry citizens are using courts to hold governments and companies accountable for climate change. That’s good for the climate, and maybe good for carbon markets – as companies become more and more sensitive to the risk of doing nothing.
More than 200 major brands use carbon offsets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent Ecosystem Marketplace report. Representatives from two of those companies, Volcom and Intuit, spoke at Sustainable Brands about how they’re promoting offsetting from within.