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- Peru
April 2014 Climate, Forests,
- Iguazu Falls, Brazil
March 19-20, 2014 Katoomba
- Beijing, China
May 16, 2013 Katoomba XVIII:
- Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
9 - 12 November, 2010 Environmental
- Hanoi, Vietnam
June 23-24, 2010 Katoomba XVII -
- La Paz, Bolivia
November 11-13 El I Congreso de
- Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA
February 9-10, 2010 Katoomba XVI -
- Accra, Ghana
2 - 3 July 2009 SCOPING STUDY OF
- Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
1-3 March 2009 SCOPING STUDY OF
- Quito, Ecador
18 de septiembre 2009 Seminario-Taller:
- Accra, Ghana
October 6-7, 2009 Katoomba XV -
- Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, Brasil
April 1 - 2, 2009 Katoomba
- Turrialba, Costa Rica
October 27-31, 2008 Designing REDD
- Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania
September 16-18, 2008 Taking Stock and
- Lugares Multiples
Fechas Multiples Avina Foundation PES
- Cartagena, Colombia
February 18-19, 2007 ERT/TAKG/Winrock
- Iquitos, Peru
October 2-4, 2007 Designing Payment and
- Cape Town, South Africa
November 8-10, 2006 Catalyzing Payments
- São Paulo, Brazil
October 3-4, 2006 Valuing Environmental
- Portland, Oregon
June 7–9, 2006 Making the Priceless
- Kampala, Uganda
19-22 September, 2005 Building Foundations
- Rüschlikon, Switzerland
October 29 – 30, 2003 Beyond Carbon:
- Tokyo, Japan.
November 5-6, 2002 Capturing the Value
- Kew, UK
March 14-16, 2002 Finance and Nature
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 Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet
Washington, DC June 9-10, 2008

Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet explored how ecosystem service payments and markets in carbon, water and biodiversity are quickly becoming a key solution to the urgent environmental problems of climate change, fresh water pollution, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, and destruction of our coastal and marine systems.
Moderated sessions among policy makers, major financial institutions, business leaders, the environmental community and indigenous groups from within the region and around the world discussed the current state of ecosystem markets and their many challenges, and pointed to some creative solutions. These discussions, in addition to breakout sessions, shed some light on bridging the gap between large-scale investment interest and local capacity for projects, the right balance between the marketplace and regulation, the role for land conversion and the ecosystem services in relation to escalating energy and food demand, and the gap between the beneficiaries of these services (often affluent urban dwellers and businesses) and the low-income rural producers.
The final panel session explored how to develop an infrastructure fund for the planet both metaphorically and concretely. How much investment will it take to protect the planet's natural infrastructure - our forests, our coral reefs, sea grasses and mangroves, our rivers and wetlands, our biological diversity? The nascent area of environmental investment has enormous scope, demonstrated by the 65 billion dollar, three-year young carbon market. But today these ecosystem services are dwarfed by capital flows into infrastructure and development, agribusiness and energy projects, all drawing down this natural capital. What are the emerging opportunities and pathways to channel much-needed investment into our natural infrastructure? How do we measure the risk of the low-income communities that will suffer disproportionately from the impacts of climate change? How do we measure the long-term profits of a healthier planet to society?
This meeting was Katoomba's first major public event in Washington, DC. Katoomba's goal is to create an ongoing effort to stimulate and nurture ecosystem market development, and to ensure that capacity is built so these new markets deliver real conservation outcomes and benefits to local communities and developing countries.
The conference was hosted by The Katoomba Group, Forest Trends, and the Smithsonian Institution.
THE KATOOMBA GROUP seeks to address key challenges for developing markets for ecosystem services, from enabling legislation to the establishment of new market institutions, to strategies of pricing and marketing, and performance monitoring. It seeks to achieve the goal through strategic partnerships for analysis, information-sharing, investment, market services and policy advocacy. The Katoomba Group includes over 180 experts and practitioners from around the world representing a unique range of experience in business finance, policy, research and advocacy. http://www.katoombagroup.org
FOREST TRENDS is an international non-profit organization that works to expand the value of forests to society; to promote sustainable forest management and conservation by creating and capturing market values for ecosystem services; to support innovative projects and companies that are developing these new markets; and to enhance the livelihoods of local communities living in and around those forests. We analyze strategic market and policy issues, catalyze connections between forward-looking producers, communities and investors, and develop new financial tools to help markets work for conservation and people. http://www.forest-trends.org
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION is one of the unique organizations in the world. Founded in 1854 for the “increase and diffusion of knowledge” it now comprises 19 museums and galleries, globally significant research organizations ranging from the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory to the Smithsonian Tropical Research institute. Its vast collections, over 143 million objects, are primarily a research tool, helping scholars understand the past and the present to explain the patterns and processes of nature and human organization. From its inception it has been looking at the concerns of “ecosystem services” with major research and outreach programs on weather, nature, the cosmos, and human civilization and evolution. Current research programs at the National Museum of Natural History, the National Zoo, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural History and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute all bring new data, information and insights into ecosystem services. http://www.si.edu

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