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Carbon Market Sees Long Game in AU "Link and Scrap" Decision
In the long run, Australia’s move to link its ETS with the EU ETS in 2015 and scrap its price floor ...
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The Matrix: Mapping Ecosystem Service Markets
The once-radical concept of saving the environment by documenting the economic value of environmental services and then getting industry to pay ...
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Payments for Ecosystem Services: Download the Primer
Payments for Ecosystem Services encourage entities that benefit from ecosystem services to pay for maintaining those ecosystems – but how? ...
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Suing to Stop Climate Change
While governments drag their feet on climate change, to what extent can nuisance lawsuits and other types of legal actions fill ...
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On the Blog: Is Papua New Guinea too Risky for the Carbon Market?
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare has reportedly denounced voluntary carbon schemes as being too risky.  The message, however, is ...
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How Drought Promotes Entrepreneurship
Ecosystem Marketplace believes that nature's ability to filter our water, cleanse our atmosphere, and regulate our climate has economic value. ...
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Building the Ecosystem Marketplace
The global financial crisis has reduced last year's raging torrent of hot capital to a glacial mound of indecision and caution. ...
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Painting the Town REDD: Merrill Lynch Inks Massive Voluntary Forest Deal
In a major demonstration of confidence in the viability of voluntary carbon offsets as a strategic investment, Merrill Lynch is raising ...
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Biodiversity Banking: A Primer
Mitigation Banking makes it possible for real estate developers to turn biodiversity into an asset instead of a liability – which ...
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Voluntary Carbon Market Doubles in Size
Volume on the world's voluntary carbon markets surged from 65 million tonnes in 2007 to 123 million tonnes in 2008, according ...
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Bonn Talks Open with REDD Agenda
Deforestation accounts for 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and the UN bodies charged with mapping out the role of forestry ...
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Environmentalists, Financiers Commemorate Decade of Forest Trends
Former US Vice President Al Gore and a diverse group of conservationists, indigenous people, financiers, policy-makers, and civil servants ...
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EKO-ECO: the Ecosystem Services Blog
When Ecosystem Marketplace launched in 2005, the idea of preserving nature by incorporating its value into our economic system was mostly ...
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The Five Keys to Constructing Successful Water-Quality Schemes
Scores of water quality trading schemes are up and running around the world, and the World Resources Institute has published a ...
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EM Podcast: Making Biodiversity Offsets Work
The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program (BBOP) has published an exhaustive library of resources four years in the making and designed ...
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UN Aims to Streamline Cost of Developing Forestry Offset Projects
It's expensive to develop carbon offset projects that reduce emissions by capturing carbon in trees, and one reason is that every ...
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EM Cheat Sheet: The Biochar Debate
Land-use practices – including forestry and agriculture – are responsible for nearly 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions, which is why ...
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Australians Think Locally, but Will They Be Allowed to Act?
Broad but not deep, Australia's new mandatory cap-and-trade regime limits the emissions of industries responsible for 75% of all greenhouse gas ...
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Methodologies Tame Forest Carbon Jungle
As forests convert carbon dioxide in the air to carbon stored in woods, leaves and roots, a range of organizations are, ...
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Bonn 'Informals' Dedicate New REDD+ Subgroup
Deforestation accounts for 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and sloppy agriculture accounts for another 18%. Improving land-use practices could ...
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