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US Senate Leaves Massive Body of Legislation – and Countless Landowners – in the Lurch with Climate Cop-Out
July 26, 2010
Maria Bendana, Pinchot Institute for Conservation

The US Senate’s failure last week to even consider a climate bill hurts us all – and not just because of continued damage to the atmosphere.  Rainforest people around the world will suffer lost income, as will US farmers and forest landowners.  Here is a overview of all the legislation left in the lurch.

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The New FCP: Forging the Global Forest Carbon Community
February 22, 2010
Maria Bendana

Market squares and meeting halls have long provided places for buyers and sellers to swap not only bids, offers, and products, but also ideas. Now Ecosystem Marketplace’s Forest Carbon Portal does the same, with a user-generated community-oriented upgrade that puts control in the hands of participants.


 

 

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Environmentalists, Financiers Commemorate Decade of Forest Trends
May 23, 2009
Forest Trends

Former US Vice President Al Gore and a diverse group of conservationists, indigenous people, financiers, policy-makers, and civil servants met in Washington, DC, at the end of April to commemorate the first decade of Forest Trends, which was launched in 1999 to help preserve the world's ecosystems by fostering an understanding of nature's true value to our global economy.

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