And the family of Forest Trends programs, including
MAP LEGEND
Global Katoomba Events
Workshops
Upcoming Events
Brief details for each event are available by hovering your mouse over an event listing on the map above. For detailed information, resources, agendas, and registration details, click the marker you are interested in.
The purpose of the one-day conference was to disseminate cutting-edge knowledge and experience on markets and market-based instruments for forest services from around the world to the Australian finance/conservation community. The conference included presentations by government officials, private...
Fourteen presenters from the financial sector, NGO groups, and First Nations as well as 200 attendees participated in learning more on: the status of markets for forest ecosystem services in Australia, perspectives of leading investors and private industry on these emerging markets, the status of...
Since early 2000, Forest Trends has sponsored an international working group to spur the
development of markets and market-based instruments for forest ecosystem services.
The name comes from the place where the first working group meeting took place in
Katoomba, Australia. Katoomba is said...
The integrity of natural ecosystems is now recognized as being crucial to the health of global
financial and capital market systems. Bringing together appropriate investors, buyers and sellers
will help to maintain ecosystem services and assets, and will ensure continuing global...
A public meeting involving investors, multilateral agencies, governments, and NGOs, took place to discuss potential markets for enviromental services.
...
The Katoomba VI workshop focused on frameworks for ecosystem service markets, including the roles of political institutions, bilateral and multilateral institutions as well as industry leadership through new initiatives such as the...
The Katoomba Group hosted a one-day Global Synthesis Workshop in conjunction with the World Conservation Congress entitled, "Ecosystems for sale in an unequal world." The session explored emerging markets in watershed protection, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity conservation and addressed...
In recent years, markets and payments for ecosystem services (PES), such as carbon sequestration, watershed protection and biodiversity conservation, have emerged in several African nations as a viable method for maintaining ecosystems and rewarding responsible environmental management. These...
The Pacific Northwest is increasingly ripe for a regional conference to further spur and galvanize emerging efforts to form conservation banks, carbon markets, water quality trading schemes, and other attempts to improve environmental conditions through market mechanisms. A recent climate...
The time is ripe to invigorate discussions on ecosystems services in Tropical America. The Katoomba Network is designed to create an enabling environment for local actors to take critical steps towards the development and improvement of payments for ecosystem services-”PES”...
In Africa, there is growing potential for markets and payments for the ecosystem services (PES), including deals related to carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation and watershed protection. These emerging markets and payments have the potential to encourage sustainable land...
Over one hundred and twenty people from the local government, local, national and international NGOs, and communities, convened in Iquitos, Peru from October...
Environmental Resources Trust (ERT), Winrock International and the Tropical America Katoomba Group (TAKG) share the pleasure to host the symposium: Leveraging multiple environmental markets to support conservation projects in Latin America.
The Global Katoomba meeting brings together leading policy makers, major financial institutions, business leaders, the environmental community and local indigenous groups to...
Previous regional Katoomba meetings in Uganda (2005) and South Africa (2006) demonstrated that Africans have become increasingly interested in market-based...
La Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, la LV Legislatura del Estado de Querétaro y Centro Tierra Sierra Gorda organizaron el Foro “Desarrollo de Productos Ecosistémicos en Áreas Naturales Protegidas”, para promover el desarrollo de productos ecosistémicos en ANP´s, para su promoción y...
Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet explored how ecosystem service payments and markets in carbon, water and biodiversity are quickly becoming a key...
From August 6-8, IUCN and Katoomba held a workshop on the legal and institutional frameworks related to ecosystem services deals in Latin America. The workshop’s objective was to present findings from preliminary scoping work that had been conducted on the design of carbon and water deals in the...
The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), the World Bank, the German Association for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Katoomba Group are pleased to announce a joint-international course: Designing REDD Activities to Mitigate Climate Change. The five-day workshop...
The Katoomba VI workshop focused on frameworks for ecosystem service markets, including the roles of political institutions, bilateral and multilateral institutions as well as industry leadership through new initiatives such as the...
Over one hundred and twenty people from the local government, local, national and international NGOs, and communities, convened in Iquitos, Peru from October...
The Global Katoomba meeting brings together leading policy makers, major financial institutions, business leaders, the environmental community and local indigenous groups to...
Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet explored how ecosystem service payments and markets in carbon, water and biodiversity are quickly becoming a key...
