The Ecosystem Marketplace – the world’s premier online source of information on environmental markets – announced publication of its first Mitigation Mail, a bi-weekly electronic publication focusing specifically on private wetlands mitigation and conservation banks in the U.S.
“Wetlands mitigation and conservation banks in the U.S. represent the most developed market-based approach in the world for conserving species and ecosystems,” stated Ricardo Bayon, Director of the Ecosystem Marketplace. “Regulators, communities, conservation groups and the business community are looking closely at this successful environmental market to see how it can offer conservation, business and investment benefits in the U.S. and in other countries. We saw the need for a publication that provides news, features and analysis that will serve all of the current and potential players in this booming market.”
While no figures exist on the overall size of the wetlands mitigation and conservation banking markets in the U.S., experts in the field estimate that these markets trade more than $1 billion a year. Australia recently launched a “Biodiversity Banking” initiative modeled after the U.S. system, and similar systems are being explored in France, Latin America, South Africa and elsewhere.
The Ecosystem Marketplace’s Mitigation Mail is offered at no cost and is written for a broad audience including policy-makers, the business community, investors and investment advisors, non-government organizations and individual consumers. Headlines from this week’s issue include:
To view the Mitigation Mail or for your free subscription, go to http://ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/static/signup.php
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Established in 2004, the Ecosystem Marketplace provides the first transparent source of information on emerging environmental markets (markets for carbon, water quality, water quantity, and biodiversity) including comprehensive news, regulatory information, market analysis and price tracking for users throughout the world. The Ecosystem Marketplace harvests the knowledge and ingenuity of over 150 worldwide business and environmental experts and can be found at www.ecosystemmarketplace.com. The Ecosystem Marketplace is an initiative of Forest Trends, www.forest-trends.org.
