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Coverage of the Global Business of Biodiversity Conference - July 13th 2010
July 13, 2010 Comment
Business and biodiversity experts from across the EU (and globally) are gathering in London to discuss the intersection of business and biodiversity. Below, we provide highlights of the conference. Opening Session The conference opened with a message from none other...
Déjà vu All Over Again - IPBES
July 1, 2010 Comment
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Report is supposed to be the 'Stern Report' for biodiversity. Well now we have the 'IPCC' of biodiversity: the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The IPBES is meant...
Web 2.0 Biodiversity Projects
July 1, 2010 Comment
Three new projects are keeping biodiversity fresh in this International Year of Biodiversity. The first, 'Biking for Biodiversity' recounts a bike adventure three guys took to figure out why biodiversity was important in the Danube watershed in Europe. Their trip...
The Buzz on Biodiversity Banking in Europe
July 1, 2010 Comment
Europe is looking to be the biggest new thing in biodiversity offsetting. First, a little scene-setting... most of the TEEB report researchers/writers are based out of Europe, so there's been general hubbub about the value of ecosystems and biodiversity building...
PODCAST: US Practitioners Give their Advice on Setting up and Running Markets for Ecosystem Services
June 28, 2010 Comment
Ecosystem Marketplace recently attended a US conference (see coverage of the event in previous posts) and asked market players what advice they would give to other practitioners working at a practical level on various types of Payments for Ecosystem...
Coverage of the AFF/WRI Environmental Markets Conference - June 24
June 24, 2010 Comment
Ecosystem markets practitioners from across the US are gathering in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina (eg - Raleigh-Durham) for a national gathering of folks working not at a theoretical level, but at a practical level - on various...
Coverage of the AFF/WRI Environmental Markets Conference - June 23
June 23, 2010 Comment
Ecosystem markets practitioners from across the US are gathering in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina (eg - Raleigh-Durham) for a national gathering of folks working not at a theoretical level, but at a practical level - on...
US Ecosystem Markets Conference
June 11, 2010 Comment
Our good friend and partner Todd Gartner of the American Forest Foundation writes... "With only a little over a week to go before *the* ecosystem markets event of the year hits North Carolina, our excitement barometer has just hit 100%....
'Conservation Credits' Idea in the UK
June 2, 2010 Comment
...The new party wants it, one private company has it, and Big Carbon says make it a global market The UK is taking big strides in developing its idea of 'conservation credits,' but does it know where it's going?...
Australia: New South Wales Announces its First Official BioBank
June 2, 2010 Comment
If you've heard of the 'BioBanking' scheme in New South Wales (NSW), it may surprise you to know that it has been in pilot phase up until the fall of 2009, and it has only just now announced its first...
Sneak Peek: TEEB's Upcoming Business Report
April 21, 2010 Comment
Review: IUCN's Time for Biodiversity Business Toolkit
September 10, 2009 Comment
Article Summary: Protecting Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in the World's Watersheds
August 24, 2009 Comment
Article Summary: Why Bartering Biodiversity Fails
August 20, 2009 Comment
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