Becca Madsen: Archive
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Foreign Aid for Biodiversity: Tyrants Need not Apply
August 13, 2010 Comment
Interesting research reported at July's Society for Conservation Biology meeting concluded that aid money abhors corrupt governance ("Eco-minded tyrants need not apply"). The research was based on a new foreign aid database called AidData.org that logs over $18 billion of...
Survey Says... Biodiversity is the Next Big Thing
August 13, 2010 Comment
A global survey of over 1,500 company executives found mixed results for biodiversity (McKinsey Global Survey 2010). On the one hand, biodiversity is seen as an opportunity or a risk for over half the respondents, with Water scarcity leading the...
PWS in the US
August 2, 2010 1 Comment
Ecosystem Marketplace caught up with Todd Gartner (with World Resources Institute, previously with American Forest Foundation) to find out about a pilot Payment for Watershed services scheme that is being developed in two watersheds in the Northeast US. Todd...
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
'Conservation Credits' Idea in the UK
June 2, 2010 Comment
Sneak Peek: TEEB's Upcoming Business Report
April 21, 2010 Comment
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