[Gender] "Focus on Conservation Finance" Newsletter on Payment for Environmental Services

[Paula Zuñiga]

Please see the attached "Focus on Conservation Finance" Newsletter by the
Conservation Finance Alliance.  This fourth newsletter issue focuses on
Payment for Environmental Services (PES) .  To learn more about the
Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA), to view past issues of the newsletter,
and to see more conservation finance resources, please visit their website:
<http://www.conservationfinance.org> www.conservationfinance.org

 

Apologies for cross-postings. 

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From: Conservation Finance Alliance [mailto:info at conservationfinance.org] 
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:24 AM
Subject: "Focus on Conservation Finance" Newsletter

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Focus on

Conservation Finance
A newsletter of the Conservation Finance Alliance: Dedicated to the delivery
of conservation finance solutions through collaboration


August 24, 2006
Volume 2, Number 2


Articles in the Fourth Issue:

*         News from the CFA!

*         Payment for Environmental Services: Some Thoughts!

*         Financial Corner: Doing Well by Doing Good: Interest in Socially
Responsible Investing Rises

*         Links of Interest

*         Promoting Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and Sustainable
Financing for Rural Conservation and Development

*         For Laughs

 

Support for this newsletter has been graciously provided by: 

 

 <http://fc.smithbarney.com/thedonnellyadamsgroupsb/> Donnelly-Adams Group
at Smith Barney

 

 <http://www.conservation.org/> Conservation International

 

 <http://www.unesco.org/mab/index.htm> UNESCO – Man and the Biosphere
Program

 <http://www.unesco.org/mab/index.htm> 

 

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 <mailto:info at conservationfinance.org> info at conservationfinance.org


Welcome back!

 

We hope that you are having a good summer in the north and pleasant winter
in the southern climes, as you peruse our fourth issue of Focus on
Conservation Finance. As we announced last time, this issue focuses on
payment for environmental services (PES). This topic has grown in importance
throughout the world as people search for market mechanisms and incentives
that can lead to the conservation of biodiversity and vital ecosystems. Our
authors provide an interesting discussion of the opportunities and
challenges involved in implementing PES programs. Alain Lambert, CFA member
representing UNEP, has written a comprehensive explanation of PES, while
Sarah Davidson, of WWF, has reinforced Alain’s point of view while providing
a synopsis of a WWF project that has PES at its core. PES, when implemented
well, is an excellent example of what the Conservation Finance Alliance is
trying to promote – innovative methods of sustainable long-term financing
that deliver both public and private gain. Another type of gain is discussed
in this issue’s Financial Corner. Our sponsors at The Donnelly-Adams Group
at Smith Barney discuss Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) as a way of
“doing well, while doing good.” 

 

The newsletter is attached to this email as a pdf (you will need
<http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html> Adobe Acrobat Reader
to view it) or you can click here to see a copy on our website,
<http://www.conservationfinance.org/> www.conservationfinance.org!

 

Our first cycle of publishing this newsletter has now come to an end and we
are looking for funding to support future issues. If any of our readers have
suggestions for support, please let us know at
<mailto:info at conservationfinance.org> info at conservationfinance.org. We will
keep you posted on any new developments through our website at
<http://www.conservationfinance.org/> www.conservationfinance.org.

 

Thanks to the Donnelly-Adams Group at Smith Barney, UNESCO, and Conservation
International for their support of this newsletter. 

 

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The Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) was created to catalyze increased
and sustainable public and private financing for biodiversity conservation
to support the effective implementation of global commitments to
conservation. CFA members currently include: Conservation Development Centre
(CDC), Conservation International (CI), DANIDA, Royal Danish Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, GTZ, IUCN, The World Conservation Union, KfW, National
Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA), The Nature Conservancy, Latin
American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds (RedLAC), FUNBIO – the
Brazilian Biodiversity Fund, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC),The Royal Society
for the Protection of Birds, Tropical Forest Conservation Act Secretariat
(USAID), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB),
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Observer: Chemonics International. Associate member: World Bank. Learn more
about us at:  <http://www.conservationfinance.org/>
www.conservationfinance.org. CFA Chair: Hans Friederich; Newsletter editor:
Ray Victurine, WCS; Newsletter Production Manager: Ilana Locker.


 

 

 

 

 

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