Ecosystem Marketplace

Ecosystem Marketplace, an initiative of Forest Trends, is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, that focuses on increasing transparency and providing information for ecosystem services and payment schemes.
The idea of launching Ecosystem Marketplace was borne out of meeting by members of The Katoomba Group, an international working group composed of leading experts from forest and energy industries, research institutions, the financial world, and environmental NGOs dedicated to advancing markets for some of the ecosystem services provided by forests – such as watershed protection, biodiversity habitat, and carbon capture and storage. Both Ecosystem Marketplace and The Katoomba Group are initiatives under Forest Trends. Ecosystem Marketplace specializes in market-based approaches to environmental protection—in the public and private spheres—regarding greenhouse gases, water, biodiversity, and conservation.
This is why it is perceived as an organisation that pushes for neoliberal biodiversity conservation.
Ecosystem Marketplace's website states: "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."

WWW Official Site 𝕏 ecomarketplace

Market coverage

Ecosystem Marketplace has covered information on a number of areas, including the following:
Carbon
Relevant material can be accessed via the main Ecosystem Marketplace website, the carbon markets landing page, and the Forest Carbon Portal.

Kyoto-related carbon markets
Voluntary over-the-counter markets
North American state and regional markets
Payments for terrestrial carbon sequestration

Water
Relevant material can be accessed via the main Ecosystem Marketplace website and Watershed Connect.

Water quality and nutrient trading
Schemes to pay for watershed services
Nitrogen offset programs

Biodiversity
Relevant material can be accessed via the main Ecosystem Marketplace website and the Species Banking Portal.

Conservation banking in the U.S.
Wetland/stream mitigation banking in the U.S.
Australian biodiversity offset programs
Voluntary biodiversity offsets

Communities
Relevant material can be accessed via the main Ecosystem Marketplace website and the Communities Portal.

PES program design
community ecosystem management
community buyer relations
poverty equity
community as buyer
payments compensation
land tenure rights

''State Of'' Reports

Biodiversity

Madsen, Becca, Nathaniel Carroll, and Kelly Moore Brands. '. Ecosystem Marketplace, 2010.
Madsen, Becca, Nathaniel Carroll, Daniel Kandy, and Genevieve Bennett. '. Ecosystem Marketplace, 2011.

Forest carbon

Hamilton, Katherine, Unna Chokkalingam, and Maria Bendana. '. Ecosystem Marketplace, 2010.
Diaz, David, Katherine Hamilton, and Evan Johnson. '. Ecosystem Marketplace, 2011.
Peters-Stanley, Molly, Katherine Hamilton, and Daphne Yin. Ecosystem Marketplace, 2012.

Voluntary carbon

Hamilton, Katherine, Ricardo Bayon, Guy Turner, and Douglas Higgins. '. Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Carbon Finance, 2007.
Hamilton, Katherine, Milo Sjardin, Thomas Marcello, and Gordon Xu. '. Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Carbon Finance, 2008.
Hamilton, Katherine, Milo Sjardin, Allison Shapiro, and Thomas Marcello. '. Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Carbon Finance, 2009.
Hamilton, Katherine, Molly Peters-Stanley, and Thomas Marcello. '. Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 2010.
Peters-Stanley, Molly, Katherine Hamilton, Thomas Marcello, and Milo Sjardin. '. Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 2011.
Peters-Stanley, Molly and Katherine Hamilton. '. Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 2012.

Water

Stanton, Tracy, Marta Echavarria, Katherine Hamilton, and Caroline Ott. . Ecosystem Marketplace, 2010.

Other publications

General

EM Market Insights. '. Ecosystem Marketplace, 2009.
EM Market Insights. '. Ecosystem Marketplace, 2009.
Carroll, Nathaniel and Michael Jenkins. "", 2012.

Forest Carbon

EM Market Insights. . Ecosystem Marketplace, 2009.
Asare, Rebecca. "." Ecosystem Marketplace, 2010.
Richards, Michael. "." Ecosystem Marketplace, 2010.

Voluntary Carbon

Bayon, Ricardo, Amanda Hawn, and Katherine Hamilton. '. Ecosystem Marketplace, 2007.
Peters-Stanley, Molly. '. Ecosystem Marketplace, 2012.