SHORT INFO — Does it help conservation to put a price on nature? — article and related LinkedIn discussion

What’s it about in short: arti­cle and related LinkedIn dis­cus­sion on the ben­e­fits and risks of eco­nomic val­u­a­tion of nature (with some ref­er­ences to bio­di­ver­sity off­sets) When was it released: Sep­tem­ber 11, 2015 By whom: Roger Har­ris, Bio­di­ver­sity Pro­fes­sion­als More info: … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — Should conservation organizations treat nature as natural capital? — An opinion piece by Jacob Salcone

What’s it about in short: opin­ion piece on the role of nature con­ser­va­tion orga­ni­za­tions in the dis­cus­sion about eco­nomic val­u­a­tion of nature (Nat­ural Cap­i­tal) When was it released: Sep­tem­ber 3, 2015 By whom: Jacob Sal­cone, IUCN More info: http://www.iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/oceania/?21849/Should-conservation-organizations-treat-nature-as-natural-capital—An-opinion-piece-by-Jacob-Salcone … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — The Nature Conservancy’s Development by Design global program

What’s it about in short: launch of the web plat­form of The Nature Conservancy’s Devel­op­ment by Design global pro­gram When was it released: Sep­tem­ber 15, 2015 By whom: Bruce McKen­ney and Joe Kiesecker, the Nature Con­ser­vancy More info: http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/urgentissues/smart-development/index.htm … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — First ‘Avoided Forest Conversion’ Offsets Purchased in the California Market

What’s it about in short: arti­cle on car­bon off­sets from avoided for­est con­ver­sion and sus­tain­able for­est man­age­ment When was it released: April 23, 2015 By whom: Kasey Krifka, Triple Pun­dit More info: http://www.triplepundit.com/2015/04/purchase-first-avoided-forest-conversion-offsets-california-market/ … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — El determinante papel del capital natural

What’s it about in short: arti­cle intro­duc­ing a video on nat­ural cap­i­tal of the Mekong river/region (in Span­ish, video in Vietnamese/English) When was it released: Sep­tem­ber 4, 2015 By whom: Mer­ca­dos de Medio Ambi­ente More info: http://www.mercadosdemedioambiente.com/actualidad/el-papel-del-capital-natural/#gdQ0MZjdW0v2g4DB … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — Land, biodiversity and extractive industries in southern Africa

What’s it about in short: “Min­ing com­pa­nies are some of the heav­i­est pol­luters and they are bound to com­ply and pay for clean-up and envi­ron­men­tal reme­di­a­tion.” says report on extrac­tive indus­tries in South­ern Africa. When was it released: Sep­tem­ber 17, 2013 By … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — Can CSR Provide Biodiversity Finance in India?

What’s it about in short: blog post on the role of the pri­vate sec­tor in financ­ing bio­di­ver­sity con­ser­va­tion in India When was it released: March 22, 2015 By whom: Divya Narain More info: https://divyanarain.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/can-csr-provide-biodiversity-finance-in-india/ … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — New Paths for Conservation: A Debate with Peter Kareiva and Clive Spash

What’s it about in short: Peter Kareiva and Clive Spash debate on new paths for con­ser­va­tion at ICCB con­fer­ence 2015 in Mont­pel­lier When was it released: August 2, 2015 By whom: Joce­lyne Sze More info: https://storify.com/jocelynesze/iccb-2015-kareiva-vs-spash … Con­tinue read­ing

Early bird deadline (September 4) for 8th World Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) conference in South Africa from 9–13 November 2015

This is  a guest post by Joël Houdet who holds Senior Research Fel­low­ships at the African Cen­tre for Tech­nol­ogy Stud­ies (Nairobi, Kenya) and the Albert Luthuli Cen­tre for Respon­si­ble Lead­er­ship (Uni­ver­sity of Pre­to­ria, South Africa). This guest post is the … Con­tinue read­ing

Devel­op­ing Busi­nesses for Bet­ter Envi­ron­men­tal Stew­ard­ship — a guest post by Derrick Wilkinson on market based instruments

This is  a guest post by Der­rick Wilkin­son who is an econ­o­mist and direc­tor of the UK based con­sul­tancy DG Wilkin­son. This guest post is the expres­sion of the author’s thoughts and expe­ri­ences and as such is acknowl­edged as a … Con­tinue read­ing