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This workshop explored the potential of emerging markets for carbon sequestration, as well as payments for habitat restoration and offsets, focusing on their implications for biodiversity conservation and rural development.

What are Markets for Ecosystem Services?
Michael Jenkins, Forest Trends and the Katoomba Group

Carbon Payments for Biodiversity Conservation
Moderator: John Niles, Climate Community Biodiversity Alliance
James Gasana, InterCooperation
"Selling Carbon Services: A View from the San Nicolas Project in Colombia"

Kathryn Shanks, BP
"The Buyer’s Approach to Carbon Payments"

Watershed Payments and Biodiversity
Moderator: Adam Davis, Solano Partners

Gerardo Segura, CONAFOR (Comisión Nacional Forestal, Mexico)
"Public Payments for Watershed Services in Mexico"

Al Appleton, Regional Planning Authority, New York
"How New York City Used an Ecosystem Services Strategy Carried out Through an Urban-Rural Partnership to Preserve the Pristine Quality of Its Drinking Water and Save Billions of Dollars and What Lessons It Teaches about Using Ecosystem Services"; "China and Working Landscapes"

Direct Payments for Habitat and Species Conservation
Moderator: Carlos Young, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Dave Shelton, CSIRO Australia
"Direct Payment for Habitat in Australia"

Ken Chomitz, The World Bank
"Using Environmental Service Payments to Catalyze Biological Corridors"

Related Documents

Draft minutes (37 Kb)

summary conclusions (16 Kb)

The Buyer’s Approach to Carbon Payments (509 Kb)

China and Working Landscapes (52 Kb)

Markets for Ecosystem Services. Direct Payment for Habitat in Australia (715 Kb)

Ecosystems for sale in an unequal world (68 Kb)