Ecosystem Marketplace

The Ecosystem Marketplace "seeks to become the world's leading source of information on markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services; services such as water quality, carbon sequestration and biodiversity. We believe that by providing solid and trust-worthy information on prices, regulation, science, and other market-relevant issues, markets for ecosystem services will one day become a fundamental part of our economic and environmental system, helping give value to environmental services that have, for too long, been taken for granted...

"The idea for this information service arose at a meeting of a group that involved all these sectors of society; a group that calls itself "The Katoomba Group". The work of The Katoomba Group was launched by Forest Trends, a DC-based environmental non-profit.

"From its inception in the mountains surrounding Katoomba, Australia, in 1999, the group has expressly included more than just environmentalists and regulators, more than the "usual environmental suspects". Instead it has included forest product companies, businesses, bankers, grassroots activists, and journalists. And it has been truly global. It has brought together people from Australia, Mexico, Colombia, Sweden, Canada, U.K., Brazil, Indonesia, China, Japan, Uganda, the US, and dozens of other countries."

Staff
Accessed December 2008:


 * Michael Jenkins
 * Katherine Hamilton
 * Steve Zwick
 * Nathaniel Carroll
 * Tracy Stanton
 * Carl Lucero
 * Allison Shapiro
 * Deborah McKay
 * Bryan Straathof
 * Becca Madsen

Advisory Committee
Accessed December 2008:


 * Ben Vitale - Sr. Director, Ecosystem Markets and Finance Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, Conservation International
 * Kerry ten Kate - Director Investor Responsibility, Insight Investments
 * Mario Monzoni - Coordenador Adjunto, Escola de Adminitracao de Empresas de Sao Paulo
 * Gretchen Daily - Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
 * Todd Sedgwick - Chairman, IO Energy LLC
 * George Thomas - Managing Director, Triloka Global Advisors
 * John Forgach - Research Affiliate, Yale University
 * Jim Salzman - Professor of Law, Duke University
 * Eugene Linden - Writer
 * Martha Isabel Patti Ruiz Corzo - Director, Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve
 * David Brand - Director of Carbon Programs, Hancock Natural Resources Group

Sponsors
Accessed December 2008:


 * ABN AMRO
 * BioCarbon Fund
 * Conservation International
 * Citigroup
 * David and Lucille Packard Foundation
 * Department for International Development
 * Forest Trends
 * The Katoomba Group
 * The Nature Conservancy
 * PROFOR
 * Redlac
 * US Forestry Service

Contact

 * Web: http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com