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TOP STORY

Forestry credits and land-use credits in general received a major boost today with the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) launching new protocols for four categories of Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU), including Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).

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11/25/2008 - 11/26/2008
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Finance
London, London
United Kingdom
11/25/2008 - 11/26/2008
The Future of Carbon Markets
London, London
United Kingdom
12/03/2008 - 12/04/2008
Corporate Water Footprinting
San Francisco, California
United States of America

PROFILE

George Jambiya: Bridging Theory and Practice Ecosystem service payments can, in theory, be a boon to Africa's economy and environment, but the reality falls well short of the potential. This week's Katoomba Meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, aims to help fix that, and the Ecosystem Marketplace talks to WWF-Tanzania Policy Officer George Jambiya about bridging the gap between theory and practice. Third in a Series

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FEATURED ARTICLES

EM Readers Weigh in on Economy

More than 75% of Ecosystem Marketplace readers responding to a recent survey believe the global economic slowdown will hurt voluntary ...

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Looking for Carbon in Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Credits are designed to spur the development of renewable energy by selling the rights to its environmental benefits. ...

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Social Carbon Joins the Party

Brazilian NGO Ecológica has been promoting the social benefits of carbon projects since long before "non-carbon" attributes became fashionable. ...

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Jeff Hayward: Quantifying Carbon, Communities, and More

The debate over Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) hinges on how to verify the amount of carbon captured ...

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Pineywoods: One Big (and Potentially Lucrative) Filtering Forest

The Conservation Fund has spearheaded an effort to preserve a swath of rare and endangered river-swamp forest by cashing in ...

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EM Survey: The Credit Crunch

Participation in this Ecosystem Marketplace survey is now closed. ...

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In Search of the Missing Bobolink

We used to find these little birds nurturing their young in the prairie grass of North America, but now we're ...

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EU: Elbow to Offsets, Nod to Trees?

The European Parliament's Environment Committee on Tuesday called for tighter post-Kyoto emission caps than previously proposed and the recognition of ...

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Building Biodiversity Business

Markets haven't been kind to biodiversity - largely because its value lies outside our economic system. The Ecosystem Marketplace ...

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PUBLICATIONS

SpeciesBanking.com: for all your species needs!

Real estate developers use species banks to offset their damage to nature by paying for newly-protected habitat. It's the ultimate "green" industry, and one worth nearly $400 million per year – despite the lack of a centralized information hub. The Ecosystem Marketplace hopes to bring the field into the 21st Century with SpeciesBanking.com.

EDITORIALS

Voluntary Carbon: a Buyer's Guide
Voluntary carbon offsets long ago ceased to be the exclusive province of a few pioneering companies and instead have become a training ground for entities that will one day face mandatory emission caps. Understandably, a slew of training manuals have emerged to help companies get it right, and this week the Ecosystem Marketplace examines Environmental Data Services' 2008 Guide to Carbon Offsets.