… Please join us for the 2013-2014 season of, “Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services”, coordinated by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and the Conservation Finance Network, a program Island … for the Nature's Returns webinars will be sent as the dates approach. Visit the CBEY website for up-to-date information regarding these and other events. Thriving Food …
… 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 , Director of the Western Regional Office at the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, will review lessons and insights from a recent project in the Pacific …
… Watch the full recording here! Please join the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) for the next webinar of the 2016-2017 season of Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem …
… The Business Case for Protecting US Wetlands Featured speaker George Kelly , Founder of the Environmental Banc and Exchange (EBX), will discuss the business case for restoring our nation’s critical ecosystems through mitigation banking. Using his … and development on multiple scales. The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is pleased to announce the second year of Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem …
… Over the course of the webinar, Leigh Madeira (Blue Forest Conservation) and Nathalie Woolworth (U.S. Forest Service) will provide invaluable insight from the field on current and prospective investment strategies aimed at growing the health and resilience of forests – an especially relevant topic today. Leigh will kick off the webinar featuring the …
… Ecosystem Services". Featured presenter Katherine Hamilton '06 M.E.M , Managing Director at Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace, will provide a primer on Ecosystem Services before taking questions from the audience. The Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY) is pleased to announce a special series of webinars on investing in the services …
… USDA Facilitates and Participates in Conservation Incentives Robert Bonnie, Senior Advisor for Environment and Climate, United States Department of Agriculture Featured speaker Robert … and environmental integrity of agriculture. He will review the risks and opportunities for public lands in ecosystem services transactions. The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is pleased to announce the second year of Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem …
… Director & Investment Officer at Commonfund. She is also an Advisory Board Member, CBEY and Lecturer in Forest and Ecosystem Finance at Yale. Seating is limited, so please register to reserve … Spalding is a Managing Director & Investment Officer at Commonfund, an investment manager for endowments, foundations, and public pension investors. Prior to that, Spalding was …
… Rates of mental health concerns for children and adolescents are high across the United States and potentially rising as, simultaneously, young people are spending less time outdoors than ever before. These trends are especially pronounced for children of color and low-income urban youth, who face multiple barriers to accessing …
… most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja family (operators of the Sinar Mas business group), GAR became the holding company for the family’s agribusinesses, including its Indonesian subsidiary PT SMART. The company … concerned environmentalists. Palm oil plantations had been carved out of precious rainforest and peat land, resulting in the release of carbon into the atmosphere and the loss of …