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Reminder: Next BBOP Consultation Deadline is August 22!
You can't offset what you can't measure, which is why the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program (BBOP) is asking for feedback on how to calculate both the amount and type of biodiversity that a given development will destroy and the degree to which biodiversity offsets will rectify the loss. The Ecosystem Marketplace tells you how to express your views.

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PROFILE

Jessica Salas: the Human Watershed For more than two decades, Jessica Salas has been helping the people of her native Philippines preserve the watersheds on which they are dependent. Along the way, she's learned a few things about what works and what doesn't. The Ecosystem Marketplace examines her career.

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FEATURED ARTICLES

Mark Tercek: Investment Banker Brings Market Finesse to Conservation
The new head of the Nature Conservancy is a 24-year Goldman Sachs vet who thinks big and acts globally. ...
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The Dean of Dung is Back – and Full of Gas!
Self-described "manure trader" Peter Hughes made headlines for harnessing water quality trading to turn chicken dung ...
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Last Chance to Chime in on the Limits of Biodiversity Offsets!
To offset or to mitigate? That is the question being put to market practitioners in the first consultation phase ...
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Gold Standard Releases Version 2, Sets Deadline for Version 1 Applicants
The Gold Standard Foundation on Friday launched an upgraded version of its certification scheme, which it says "better enforces the ...
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VCS Opens Can of Registries
For nearly as long as there's been talk of a Voluntary Carbon Standard, VCS supporters have been haggling over how ...
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Chesapeake Vet Nees to Run Water Fund
When the Chesapeake Clean Water Fund launches later this year, its goal will be to jump-start a mosaic of water ...
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Making Wildlife Pay in Northern Tanzania
Ecotourism and sustainable trophy hunting have delivered verifiable conservation benefits in parts of Africa, but scaling up has proven difficult. ...
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Bay Stakeholders Look to Offset Nutrient Footprints
Several market-based programs are in the works to promote actions designed to reduce the amount of nutrients entering the Chesapeake ...
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In the Year 2035 – if Ecosystem Markets Keep Man Alive…
The new book Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America, is an environmental cautionary tale with a hopeful ...
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PUBLICATIONS

Climate Change and Forestry: a REDD Primer

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over how to tackle climate change is the role of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in market-based mitigation strategies. The Ecosystem Marketplace summarizes the key issues.


EDITORIALS

Aguajales in Loreto, Peru: Environmental Services of the Aguajales and the Opportunities for a Global Business for the LoretoRegion
Angel Salazar of the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (Iquitos) has written an article on aguajales, palm tree forests that occupy 5.3 million hectares in the Peruvian Amazon and sequester large amounts of carbon. They play a role in the local economy through providing employment opportunities for local communities and by satisfying the high consumer demand for their fruit. Salazar's article describes the potential benefits offered by aguajales harvesting and calls for increased efforts for improved management of aguajales as well as for linking these ecosystems to environmental services payment schemes.


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