Forest Trends' Activities

News, Analysis, & Research

Forest Trends

Forest Trends seeks to shift the economic paradigm to use markets to recognize the value in all natural ecosystems.

Ecosystem Marketplace

Daily news, data, and analytics describing environmental markets and payments for ecosystem services.

Valorando Naturaleza

Ecosystem Marketplace's Spanish-language companion site tracking payments for ecosystem services in Latin America.
Forests, Carbon & Finance

Forest Carbon Portal

Tracking news and finance for forest and land use carbon projects.

REDDX Tracking

Tracking REDD+ finance from donors to in-country recipients to REDD+ projects on the ground.

Forest Trade & Finance

Encourage sustainable forest management and forest trade policies, raise transparency and accountability, improve practices by financial institutions that fund forestry investment.
Water & Marine

Watershed Connect

Projects, maps, and news about water projects around the world. Now in English, Spanish, and Chinese.

MARES

The Marine Ecosystem Services program provides research & materials for ocean ecosystems

Water Initiative

Protecting crucial ecosystem services by harnessing markets and incentives to complement conventional management and safeguard human well-being.
Biodiversity

Species Banking

News, resources, and a global project inventory on species and habitat banking and compensation.

BBOP

The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program helps companies offset their biodiversity impacts.
Communities & Outreach

Community Portal

Provides news, how-to's, and introductions to ecosystem services for local and indigenous communities.

Katoomba Group

A forum to exchange ideas and strategic information to promote payments for ecosystem services.

Katoomba Incubator

Have a potential offset project you want to implement? The Katoomba Incubator helps you plan, finance, and certify your offset and mitigation projects.

Ending Global Deforestation: Policy Options for Consumer Countries

Ending Global Deforestation: Policy Options for Consumer Countries

This report examines deforestation policies around the world. The past decade or so has seen many governments banning international trade in illegal timber. Yet, the primary cause of deforestation is not the timber markets, it's forest clearance for agriculture. The report examines the potential for similar trade policies to limit unsustainable agricultural products.

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Release Date	November 2013
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File Size	2003KB