These sessions will examine different topics in tropical forest conservation
Simultaneous Session 1: Commodities
Tropical forests cannot survive without addressing the larger issues of land conversion and international commodities of palm oil, soy, and cattle.
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Certification and Sustainability - Indonesia’s Palm Oil sector Hsuan-wen Kuo University of Michigan The round table on sustainable palm oil addresses palm as adeforestation driver |
REDD+ and Commodities Chris Meyer Environmental Defense Fund How can commodities be linked withREDD+ in order to address deforestation drivers? |
Commodities that destroy Forests Doug Boucher Union of Concerned Scientists What steps can be taken to reducedeforestation from global commodities? |
Simultaneous Session 2: Payments for Ecosystem Services- national and local finance
Numerous examples of conservation rely on local and national funding sources of payments for ecosystem services and other revenue streams.
What are these sources, and how can conservationists use them?
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Peter Anderson Director, Real estate investment creates revenue for a local conservation land bank |
Craig Kauffman Professor, Watershed funds in Ecuador provide finance for upstream conservation |
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Bruno Monteferri Director, Voluntary conservation and crowd funding drives national conservation |
Stephanie Stefanski Yale Forestry & Environmental Studies Timber, reforestation, and interactions with |
Simultaneous Session 3: Making money in the field
Can conservation pay for itself? In these cases, communities and forest users implement new or traditional conservation techniques to generate sustainable income.
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Jeffrey Chow Phd Candidate, Mangrove extraction: in Bangladesh, economics of forest extraction interact with plantation development |
Clever Grefa Licuy East Coast Sales Representative, USA In Ecuador, diverse forest creates the highest quality chocolate in the world |
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Bob Johnston Director, Reduced Impact Logging: Around the world, community foresters are learning new tools to reduce impact and raise income |
Rune Karsten Phd Candidate, University of Copenhagen Reduced Impact Logging: Why scale of operations and forest inventorying is good for the environment and the economy. |
Moderator:
Cary Krosinsky
Cary Krosinsky is an expert in the field of impact investing. He is an adjunct faculty at Columbia University, director of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, and founder and director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative.
See his article on impact investing inThe Guardian