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Selling Forest Environmental Services
This volume outlines a wide-ranging sample of cases in which ecosystem services are finding real markets and real revenue flows from Brazil to India, and Australia to the United States.
People, Plants, and Justice: the politics of nature conservation
This book probes the social and environmental concequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes.
A New Agenda for Forest Conservation and Poverty Reduction: Making Markets Work for Low-Income Producers
The authors of this title lay out a set of strategies to promote forest market development in ways that positively contribute to local livelihoods and community development in low- and middle-income countries.

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WRI Database of Carbon Sequestration Projects
This database, created by WRI in 2002, includes descriptive and contact information for more than 80 carbon sequestration projects around the world.
Midwestern U.S. Forest Restoration Climate Action Project
The Midwestern forest restoration project involves the restoration of almost 1,000 acres of forest in Ohio and Indiana.
WRI Database of Carbon Sequestration Projects
This database, created by WRI in 2002, includes descriptive and contact information for more than 80 carbon sequestration projects around the world.

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Designing a Greenhouse Gas Offset System for Canada
The Government of Canada is currently undertaking work on the design of a Canadian offset system for greenhouse gases (GHGs) as envisioned in the 2005 climate change plan for Canada – Moving Forward on Climate Change: A Plan for Honouring our Kyoto Commitment.
New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme
The Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme for Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), commenced on 1 January 2003 and remains in force until 2012.
European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
In January 2005 the European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) will commence operation as the largest multi-country, multi-sector Greenhouse Gas emission trading scheme world-wide.

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NCSE's 7th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment:
02/01/2007 - 02/02/2007
Washington , District of Columbia
United States of America
Emerging Issues Along Urban/Rural Interfaces:
04/09/2007 - 04/12/2007
Atlanta , Georgia
United States of America
National Mitigation & Conservation Banking Conference
04/10/2007 - 04/13/2007
St. Louis , Missouri
United States of America

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Program of Payments for Forest Environmental Services in Costa Rica
This paper looks at the Costa Rican Payments for Environmental Services Program (PESP).
Factors to Consider in Choosing Instruments to Promote Environmental Services
This presentation describes the range of instruments available to promote environmental services of forests, including regulation and markets.
Constructing Markets for Ecosystem Services
This paper examines the economics of development interventions in the peripheral areas of endangered ecosystems.

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Financing Environmental Services: The Costa Rican Experience and its Implications
This article provides a snapshot of a fascinating, rapidly evolving experiment in progress: markets for the environmental benefits of forests.
Markets for Biodiversity Services
A great overview of the markets for biodiversity services, the authors explain that it is essential to find new mechanisms by which resourse owners and managers can realize the economic value created by good stewardship of biodiversity.
No, Air, Don't Sell Yourself
This document argues that 'environmental services' provide the means of taking privatisation to a new level - a means of privatising many things that have as-yet been unavailable for privatisation: air, water and all sorts of other ecological processes.