Biodiversity: Archive
A Tale of Two Markets
May 10, 2013 Comment
We're bringing you live coverage all week from New Orleans of the 2013 National Mitigation & Ecosystem Banking Conference. Check back often! Thursday morning's Alternatives to Mitigation session found Craig Denisoff taking the podium to talk about habitat credit trading...
Overheard at the National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference
May 9, 2013 Comment
"One of the priorities of the National Mitigation Banking Association is to try to get some teeth into the [Endangered Species Act]. If all regulators had to require conservation and mitigation measures, we'd have a thriving market. The agencies that...
"We could use a little more Silicon Valley, and a little less old-school utility."
May 8, 2013 Comment
We're bringing you live coverage all week from New Orleans of the 2013 National Mitigation & Ecosystem Banking Conference. Check back often! March 8 President & CEO of The Conservation Fund Larry Selzer opened his keynote address at the opening...
What's Next for the Mitigation Banking Industry?
May 8, 2013 Comment
We're bringing you live coverage all week from New Orleans of the 2013 National Mitigation & Ecosystem Banking Conference. Check back often! March 8, 2013 This conference marks the passing of the torch, with presidency of the National Mitigation Banking...
The ACES & Ecosystem Markets Conference
December 18, 2012 Comment
Last week's conference in Ft Lauderdale has been a near reflection of its host city - domestic with a splash of international flavor, and seeing a rebound from the financial crisis but still searching for market demand. Here are a few conference highlights, gathered by Ecosystem Marketplace staff attending the conference.
Coverage of the Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference
August 7, 2012 3 Comments
August 2 Practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, and educators in the ecosystem services field have arrived from all over the world (47 countries if you're counting) in Portland, Oregon for the 5th Annual Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference. Ecosystem Marketplace's Genevieve Bennett is...
Coverage of the Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference
August 3, 2012 Comment
August 1 This morning I attended a working group hosted by Jeanne Christie of the Association of State Wetland Managers, Andrew Warner of The Nature Conservancy, David Conrad of the Clean Water Network, and David Batker of Earth Economics looking...
Coverage of the Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference - July 31
August 1, 2012 Comment
The afternoon has been a bit of a blur, with five hours of parallel five-minute oral presentations. This meant having to choose between a lot of great work being presented. I spent most of my time in the 'Policy' and 'Quantifying' rooms. Some highlights:
Coverage of the Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference - July 31
August 1, 2012 Comment
The opening plenary this morning was given by Bob Costanza, of Portland State University, and Dolf de Groot of Waginengen University, welcoming attendees to the conference. Costanza spoke about ecosystem services' growing profile in scholarship. He also showed a few fascinating slides illustrating the complex networks of co-authorship around the world in published research on ecosystem services. The slides draw on an Ecosystem Services journal paper currently in press but you can view them here.
Coverage of the National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference - May 11
May 9, 2012 Comment
Conference coverage courtesy of Becca Madsen of Madsen Environmental. ...continuing coverage on the National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking conference in Sacramento, California from May 8-11. Friday, May 11 Breakfast Plenary - Legislative and Regulatory Update Regulations are the true driver...
Stream Exposé
June 24, 2011 Comment
A Round-Up of Business and Biodiversity News
June 21, 2011 Comment
BEF's Water Restoration Certificates On Stage at TEDxRainier
December 20, 2010 1 Comment
On Tap at the 2010 ACES Conference
December 7, 2010 Comment
Blog Coverage of the CBD COP10 in Nagoya, Japan
November 8, 2010 Comment
Service Area Boundaries - How Does the US ACE Determine these in Different Districts?
September 10, 2010 Comment
Corps Responds to Letter on Data Accessibility; RIBITS Update
September 9, 2010 Comment
Round-up of Biodiversity News
September 8, 2010 Comment
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