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In Our World:
Food, Water And Mining
The International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) has collected key environmental news stories that include Brazil's rejection of gold mining ...
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In Our World: A Global
Wrap Of Economy And Ecology
Mainstream news and science publications have been digging deeper and deeper into concepts central to environmental finance, and the International Institute ...
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Low-Flying Eyes In The Green, Green Sky
Remote sensing is a critical but expensive tool for verifying and validating the impact of land-use improvement projects, especially when using ...
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Remote Sensing: A Primer
Nearly all types of environmental finance – whether mitigation banking, payments for watershed services, or REDD – involve some form of ...
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Watershed Payments Topped
$8.17 Billion In 2011
Today marks the release of Ecosystem Marketplace's State of Watershed Payments 2012 report and with it some significant findings that include ...
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How Two Different Studies
Found Consensus On Emissions
From Tropical Deforestation
When researchers from two separate institutions measured carbon emissions from deforestation using different techniques, they came to the same number: 3.0 ...
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REDD+ And The Future Of
Climate-Safe Agriculture
REDD+ emerged from the Doha climate talks well ahead of overall negotiations, despite disagreement over how to verify and validate emission-reductions. ...
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Soil Carbon Lands Market Opportunities
Through New Offset Methodology
The Verified Carbon Standard recently approved The Earth Partners’ soil carbon methodology for use on agricultural offset projects. The methodology, while ...
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Should Israel Embrace Biodiversity Financing Programs?
Israel’s biodiversity is under threat from a list of sources that include urbanization, water scarcity and habitat loss. To beat this ...
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Valuing the Arc: Five-Year Experiment Draws to a Close
The downward flow of water from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Africa generates up to half of Tanzania's power and provides ...
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Canadians Explore REDD Potential for Indigenous Groups
Indigenous groups around the world stand to benefit from emerging carbon markets, but only if they have clear legal rights to ...
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First-Ever African Soil-Carbon Deal Signed at Hague Investment Fair
Small-holder farmers in Kenya are changing their farming practices and earning carbon credits. This is a result of the first ...
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The New FCP Helps Forge the Global Forest Carbon Community
Marketplaces have long provided a place where buyers and sellers can swap not only bids, offers, and products, but also ideas.  ...
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Want the Money? Learn the Language!
Financial markets aren't getting the glory these days, but they still control access to the green – and if payment for ...
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Breaking News: Three VCS Registries Open – On Their Own
The three carbon registries supporting the Voluntary Carbon Standard's "meta-registry" have begun listing Voluntary Carbon Units, but they aren't yet communicating ...
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Seeing the Forest for the Carbon – From Space
Brazil may lead the world in deforestation, but it's also a leader in using technology to try and reverse the process. ...
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Can Index-Linked Bonds Save the Carbon Market?
The greatest risk embedded in carbon credits isn't that governments won't agree on long-term reduction targets, but that they won't have ...
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Climate Change to Slash Carbon Capacity of Forests: Study
Deforestation accounts for 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and the ability of forests to extract carbon from the atmosphere is ...
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Guaraqueçaba: Where the Buffalo Roamed
If efforts to save the tropical rainforests by Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) ever yield large-scale results, it will ...
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EM Podcast: Market-Based Watershed Protection in North and South America
Market-based watershed restoration and protection schemes are up and running across the Americas - from the Chesapeake Bay in the United ...
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