The Carbon Disclosure Project’s Global Water Report 2013 reports more disclosure from companies than ever but also warns businesses are still not accounting for risks at the watershed level. Meanwhile the Ecosystem Marketplace water team is putting together a briefing for business on watershed investments.
Project developers responding to our just-released 2013 State of the Forest Carbon Markets report estimated that they could deliver 1.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions reductions in the next five years. However, demand on this scale would have to come from compliance markets – markets that hinge on methodologies currently being hashed out in Warsaw.
Indigenous people have long been among the world’s most responsible land stewards, and they are well-positioned to gain from programs that harness carbon payments to save endangered rainforest. Leaders in Warsaw argue, however, that such programs will only work if they incorporate indigenous values and realities.
Representantes de alianzas indígenas de América Latina presentaron en el arranque de la COP19 en Varsovia, Polonia sus perspectivas sobre REDD Indígena y el camino hacia la solución climática mundial. COICA y AIDESEP hablaron de sus acciones y las que esperan ver en este encuentro internacional, así como sus pasos hacia la COP20 en ‘su […]
Siempre líder en el desarrollo de compensaciones de carbono forestal, el recientemente publicado reporte anual de Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace sobre el Estado de los Mercados de Carbono Forestal 2013, Cubriendo Nuevos Suelos, reveló que en América Latina, este mercado ha sufrido en torno a temas de falta de claridad de tenencia de tierra, políticas […]
Key findings from Ecosystem Marketplace’s State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2013 report, which was published last week, includes market growth by 9% while the global average price for forestry offsets decreased. However, it was still higher than prices paid by voluntary buyers across all offset project types. The report tracked forest carbon management over a land area larger than Ecuador.
28 October 2013 | The American Tea Party hates Obamacare. They hate it with a visceral passion because it’s a government program that may – just may – succeed where the private sector failed. Such a success would invalidate basic Tea Party tenets, so they fight it with everything they have: a few rational points […]
Ecosystem Marketplace’s annual State of the Forest Carbon Markets report is due out November 6 and with it the latest findings on forest carbon projects’ structure, standards and finance. Focus points include the changing dynamics of forest finance and global market activity. Join Ecosystem Marketplace in London for a presentation on these findings. RSVP today!
The past month saw movement in the green infrastructure space with an assessment on green infrastructure valuation tools and a $50 million fund slated to implement natural infrastructure upgrades in Chicago. Also this month, two papers from Forest Trends offering thoughts on the social impact assessment of investments in watershed services programs.
A Peruvian sociologist dedicated to poverty alleviation has helped implement a version of payments for watershed services projects in impoverished nations like Guatemala, Peru and Indonesia with the help of WWF. The initiatives have led to a host of benefits for the local populations and ecosystems and now have the Chinese government as well as other nations interested in the model.