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 Stories About: Guyana
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Market force of nature
Social concerns complicate an issue that, for scientists, is a no-brainer |
Maywa Montenegro |
23 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece, now posted at Seed, about a financial mechanism for reducing deforestation and degradation (REDD) and vaster territory it will likely prime for pricing ecosystem services. It's fun to watch the story evolve, as now we're seeing the U.K.-based Canopy Capital sign an agreement to protect a 371,000 hectare chunk of tropical forest in Guyana -- in advance even of a market infrastructure to value all the services provided by th ... |
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| Topics: business, Guyana, investing, public lands, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Betting on the future
Private equity firm buys rights to rainforest reserve's environmental services |
biodiversivist |
21 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Photo: Smccann via Flickr This picture of what appears to be an insect with rainbows flying out its butt was taken in Guyana. There are untold, untapped, unknown chemistries created by millions of years of evolution harbored in what remains of the planet's biodiversity. This is a vast storehouse of information, which would provide humanity with centuries of medicines and other benefits if we can just find ways to preserve it. We can't let our biodiversity ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, biofuels, business, Guyana, investing, rainforests (all these topics) |
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