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June 8, 2010
The Seventeenth Katoomba Meeting will be more global than any of its predecessors, with streaming audio of all presentations and video snippets of interviews with presenters and practitioners. Over the next three weeks, we'll be providing background reports and brief interviews with key thinkers who are directly and indirectly involved in K-17. This week, Winnie Lau, Ricardo Bayon, and Joe Heffernan all share their views via skype.
4 June 2010 | Ben Metz has been skyping people whose ideas will be on display at this month's Katoomba Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam (see Katoomba XVII Online, right). Not all of them can make it to the meeting, and perhaps you can't either. That's why we're posting all the material here, and why we've created a dedicated web site for K-17 material.
Ricardo Bayon, EKO Asset Management Partners
Ricardo Bayon is a Partner and co-founder of EKO Asset Management Partners. Before that, he co-founded Ecosystem Marketplace.
In this short interview he gives us a overview of why Ecosystem Marketplace was founded, why he moved on to co-found EKO Asset Management Partners and what he considers the big issues are for environmental markets in SE Asia.
Winnie Lau, Program Manager of MARES
Winnie Lau, Manager of MARES Program provides us a basic outline of this new Forest Trends program. MARES aims to protect crucial marine ecosystem services by harnessing markets and private sector investment, in order to complement conventional coastal and marine management and safeguard human well-being.
Winnie will be leading a session on coastal and marine ecosystems in Hanoi and here she also outlines the objectives of this session.
Joe Heffernan, Fauna & Flora International
Joe Heffernan, REDD coordinator for Fauna and Flora International, outlines FFI’s work across SE Asia and tells us a little about what he considers the burning carbon related issue for the region: one of capacity…
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Katoomba XVII Online
A diverse array of policymakers, investors, businessmen, academics, and environmentalists will be meeting in Hanoi on June 23 and 24 for the Seventeenth Katoomba Meeting. Their mission is to develop various means of protecting nature across Southeast Asia by incorporating the value of nature’s services into the region’s growing economy. Drawing on the success of past Katoomba Meetings, Ecosystem Marketplace will be streaming content from the event to make this a truly global forum.
We have also created a mirror site that will exclusively carry content related to this exciting forum. Feel free to visit us here over the coming weeks as we upload interviews with key participants and preview some of the issues that Katoomba XVII will address.
For a more interactive experience, visit our dedicated pages on LinkedIn and FaceBook, where you’ll be able to participate in discussions before, during, and after the event.
And don’t forget to keep visiting EM, where we will be posting feature stories designed to break complex issues down for a more general audience in an effort to foster informed debate involving as many stakeholders as possible. These stories will also be posted on the mirror site.
