… three-part webinar series, "Nature's Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services". Featured presenter Sheila Walsh , Senior Scientist at The Nature Conservancy's Sustainability Science … and bring their worth onto the market. Public and private funds exist to help attach cash flows to the public benefits provided by landowners that responsibly manage their land. … and bring their worth onto the market. Public and private funds exist to help attach cash flows to the public benefits provided by landowners that responsibly manage their land. …
… second year of Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services, a webinar series that addresses the growing importance of ecosystem service valuation and investment. The benefits … gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and pharmaceutical … receive for free. A recent wave of efforts to monetize the value of Ecosystem Services presents an opportunity to both protect these assets and bring their worth onto the market. …
… Carbon markets are a promising mechanism to help finance sustainable forest management practices and conservation projects, yet transaction costs and market structure have limited improved forest management carbon offset projects to large scales. In this webinar, Brian Kittler , … attempting to overcome transaction costs and scale the carbon market down for family forest owners. 2707 Equity and Justice Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions …
… second year of Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services, a webinar series that addresses the growing importance of ecosystem service valuation and investment. The benefits … gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and pharmaceutical … receive for free. A recent wave of efforts to monetize the value of Ecosystem Services presents an opportunity to both protect these assets and bring their worth onto the market. …
… for Business and the Environment and the Conservation Finance Network, a program Island Press. Our second featured speaker Joe Short , Vice President of Northern Forest Center, will continue the Ecosystem Services and Community Development mini-series by …
… Social justice. Economic development. Global equality. These priorities shape our present and the way we respond to them will define our shared future. The Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit is a two day event bringing together change makers from diverse spheres to share effective models of sustainability and build skills for action. YESS aspires to …
… ecosystem services and play an integral role in policy-making. Gretchen Daily, senior fellow at Stanford University and co-founder of the Natural Capital Project, will begin the … with her talk on Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making: Frontiers in Research and Policy. During this webinar, Daily will present the Natural Capital Project … ecosystem services and play an integral role in policy-making. Gretchen Daily, senior fellow at Stanford University and co-founder of the Natural Capital Project, will begin the …
… Watch the full recording here! Urban trees and forests are often overlooked in our fight against climate change and yet they cumulatively represent a significant carbon sink. More than that, they provide a wide array of co-benefits … and new financing mechanisms are urgently needed. Join our webinar to engage with City Forest Credits ' Executive Director, Mark McPherson, as he walks us through promising new …
… investments. The first in this mini-series will feature a talk on Bright Spots for Resource Mobilization: Regional Trusts by Willy Kostka of the Micronesia Conservation Trust … funding for biodiversity conservation. They will also detail how countries within their respective regions have capitalized on their natural resources to generate revenue for the trust funds. Interested in reading more before our …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companies signed an agreement to end deforestation, development of peat lands and exploitation of locals not only with their own … For environmental NGOs, the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (as the agreement was named) represented a dramatic advance in their decades-long efforts to protect the Indonesian rainforest from further destruction. One year later the situation appeared to have reversed. …