New Role for Forests in the Green Economy International Working Group Kick-off Meeting
April 10-12, 2000 | Sydney | Katoomba, Australia

The purpose of the one-day conference was to disseminate cutting-edge knowledge and experience on markets and market-based instruments for forest services from around the world to the Australian finance/conservation community. The conference included presentations by government officials, private...

Developing Markets for Environmental Services of Forests
October. 4-6, 2000 | Vancouver, British Columbia

Fourteen presenters from the financial sector, NGO groups, and First Nations as well as 200 attendees participated in learning more on: the status of markets for forest ecosystem services in Australia, perspectives of leading investors and private industry on these emerging markets, the status of...

New Markets for a Green Economy: Carbon Credits and Environmental Services of Forests
March 23, 2001 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Since early 2000, Forest Trends has sponsored an international working group to spur the development of markets and market-based instruments for forest ecosystem services. The name comes from the place where the first working group meeting took place in Katoomba, Australia. Katoomba is said...

Finance and Nature New Market Opportunities and Growing Risks: The Financial Impact of the Natural World
March 14-16, 2002 | Kew, UK

The integrity of natural ecosystems is now recognized as being crucial to the health of global financial and capital market systems. Bringing together appropriate investors, buyers and sellers will help to maintain ecosystem services and assets, and will ensure continuing global...

Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services: Developing Markets for Environmental Assets
November 5-6, 2002 | Tokyo, Japan.

A public meeting involving investors, multilateral agencies, governments, and NGOs, took place to discuss potential markets for enviromental services. ...

Beyond Carbon: Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services
October 29 – 30, 2003 | Rüschlikon, Switzerland

The Katoomba VI workshop focused on frameworks for ecosystem service markets, including the roles of political institutions, bilateral and multilateral institutions as well as industry leadership through new initiatives such as the...

Ecosystems for Sale in an Unequal World
November 19, 2004 | Bangkok, Thailand.

The Katoomba Group hosted a one-day Global Synthesis Workshop in conjunction with the World Conservation Congress entitled, "Ecosystems for sale in an unequal world." The session explored emerging markets in watershed protection, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity conservation and addressed...

Building Foundations for Pro-Poor Ecosystem Services in Africa
19-22 September, 2005 | Kampala, Uganda

In recent years, markets and payments for ecosystem services (PES), such as carbon sequestration, watershed protection and biodiversity conservation, have emerged in several African nations as a viable method for maintaining ecosystems and rewarding responsible environmental management. These...

Making the Priceless Valuable: Jumpstarting Environmental Markets
June 7–9, 2006 | Portland, Oregon

The Pacific Northwest is increasingly ripe for a regional conference to further spur and galvanize emerging efforts to form conservation banks, carbon markets, water quality trading schemes, and other attempts to improve environmental conditions through market mechanisms. A recent climate...

Valuing Environmental Services: Securing the Natural Capital of Present and Future Generations
October 3-4, 2006 | São Paulo, Brazil

The time is ripe to invigorate discussions on ecosystems services in Tropical America. The Katoomba Network is designed to create an enabling environment for local actors to take critical steps towards the development and improvement of payments for ecosystem services-”PES”...

Catalyzing Payments for Ecosystem Services in Africa A Meeting of the East and Southern Africa Katoomba Group
November 8-10, 2006 | Cape Town, South Africa

In Africa, there is growing potential for markets and payments for the ecosystem services (PES), including deals related to carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation and watershed protection. These emerging markets and payments have the potential to encourage sustainable land...

Designing Payment and Compensation for Ecosystem Service Schemes (PyCES) and REDD
October 2-4, 2007 | Iquitos, Peru

Over one hundred and twenty people from the local government, local, national and international NGOs, and communities, convened in Iquitos, Peru from October...

ERT/TAKG/Winrock Symposium Leveraging multiple environmental markets to support conservation projects in Latin America
February 18-19, 2007 | Cartagena, Colombia

Environmental Resources Trust (ERT), Winrock International and the Tropical America Katoomba Group (TAKG) share the pleasure to host the symposium: Leveraging multiple environmental markets to support conservation projects in Latin America.

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Avina Foundation PES Workshops
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Durante el año 2007, la Fundación AVINA ha lanzado una secuencia de talleres de formación en Mercados de Servicios Ecológicos (llamado así enfatizar el carbono pero no excluir los de biodiversidad, biomasa y agua) destinada a socios y miembros de la organización.

La implementación de estos...

Global Katoomba Meeting Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet
June 9-10, 2008 | Washington DC, United States

The Global Katoomba meeting brings together leading policy makers, major financial institutions, business leaders, the environmental community and local indigenous groups to...

Taking Stock and Charting a Way Forward for Payments for Ecosystem Services in Africa A Meeting of the East & Southern Africa Katoomba Group
September 16-18, 2008 | Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania

Previous regional Katoomba meetings in Uganda (2005) and South Africa (2006) demonstrated that Africans have become increasingly interested in market-based...

Desarrollo de Productos Ecosistémicos en Áreas Naturales Protegidas Un taller sobre areas naturales protegidas con salida al campo
15 al 16 de mayo del 2008 | Querétaro, Mexico

La Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, la LV Legislatura del Estado de Querétaro y Centro Tierra Sierra Gorda organizaron el Foro “Desarrollo de Productos Ecosistémicos en Áreas Naturales Protegidas”, para promover el desarrollo de productos ecosistémicos en ANP´s, para su promoción y...

Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet
June 9-10, 2008 | Washington, DC

Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet explored how ecosystem service payments and markets in carbon, water and biodiversity are quickly becoming a key...