2008 GLOBAL KATOOMBA MEETING DEVELOPING AN INFRASTRUCTURE FUND FOR THE PLANET
04.30.08 - Leído 53 veces. Enviar esta notaJune 9-10, 2008
Come join a global group of finance, business, community, environment and government experts and discuss the latest developments in ecosystem markets and how they are being created and utilized to help solve some of our most critical environmental challenges
The services provided by our natural infrastructure - forests, aquatic systems, biodiversity, carbon and nutrient cycles - have long gone unnoticed and unpriced.
However, ecosystem service payments and markets in carbon, water and biodiversity are quickly becoming a key solution to ensuring nature’s services are not overwhelmed by human and economic activity.
Recent developments in the US - such as the Lieberman-Warner bill – and internationally - with REDD emerging through the Kyoto process as well as new water-quality trading schemes - point to the rapid development of market-based innovation, and the challenges and opportunities for conservation, business and community.
MEETING TOPICS:
* Report on the current state of U.S. and global ecosystem markets
* What is next for the already $60 billion carbon markets
* How water quality trading markets are helping address the world’s growing water crisis
* The emergence of biodiversity markets and how they can be optimized for superior results
* How to bridge the gap between current challenges and future economic and environmental solutions
* Create an infrastructure fund for the planet that will invest in our vital natural services
For speakers, registration, and program visit:
* http://www.katoombagroup.org/chesapeake
PARTNERS
The Smithsonian
World Resources Institute
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation
CURRENT SPONSORS
The Packard Foundation
The Linden Trust for Conservation
EPRI
U.S. Forest Service
U.S. Aid for International Development
The Natural Resource Conservation Service
The Environmental Protection Agency
Wildlands, Inc.
ORGANIZED BY
Forest Trends and the Katoomba Group
Phone: (202) 298-3000
chesapeake@katoombagroup.org
