Conservation Finance

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Posted here will be relevant and interesting Conservation Finance links. www.biodiversityeconomics.org - An extensive background site with more than 1300 links to publications (380) and other web sites (670 pages) dealing with business, finance, incentives, trade, assessment and valuation. This website has also been recently redesigned! It now includes a spider that allows you to search relevant documents from a selection of other sites as well as a Basics section for people new to biodiversity economics and includes introductory texts and summary papers. http://www.iisd.ca/linkages - Linkages is provided by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and is designed to be an electronic clearing-house for information on past and upcoming international meetings related to environment and development policy. For example, they have proceedings and the Plan of Implementation from the recent World Summit on Sustainable Development. www.gefweb.org - The Global Environment Facility website with information on the GEF's medium-sized projects and small grants programs as well as a "How do I?" page that explains GEF procedures. The website http://sgp.undp.org/ has information just on the Small Grants Programme. http://www.biodiv.org/financial/sources.asp - These pages on the Convention on Biological Diversity website point to sources for funding, institutions involved in sustainable financing for conservation and other useful references on financial resources for conservation. http://www.earthcouncil.com/earthcouncil/ - The Earth Council Learning Center for Sustainable Development is dedicated to hosting courses on topics of global importance such as climate change, world trade, and sustainable development. The courses are aimed at professionals from all spheres working on these issues. and courses are open to all organizations working on sustainable development issues. www.frameweb.org - FRAME is a gateway that links you to sources of information, tools and expertise on environment and natural resource issues in Africa. It is an internet-based resource that provides access to relevant technical information, networks and analytical mechanisms to facilitate engagement by African partners in using those resources in strategic planning and decision-making. Its key components include the FRAME website, which is not only a library of technical reports and country data, but also a gateway to other databases and mechanisms that help you sort through the mountains of data and analyze it in ways that suit your needs. It also helps connect you with others with experiences to share. www.ecofondos.net - Ecofondos.net is a webportal full of information on the financing of nature conservation and sustainable development. It is Ecofondos' hope that people in Latin America who are developing programs and projects related to environmental conservation and sustainable development (government officials, NGO staff, university professors, etc.), as well as others who are just interested in these issues, will visit this site to get information on sources of funding and on writing grant proposals and will also join their listserv. www.a-p-e-x.org - Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange (APEX) is devoted to promoting ecosystem health and ecological economics and to halting the globalization of unsustainable economic policies. Focusing on the vital areas of toxics, forests, fisheries and global trade policy, they achieve their goals through organization, education and advocacy. APEX works through two main projects: The Basel Action Network (BAN) and the Center for Applied Ecological Economics (CAEE). BAN is an international network of activists seeking to put an end to economically motivated toxic waste export and dumping -- particularly hazardous waste exports from rich industrialized countries to poorer, less-industrialized countries. CAEE builds on the work of APEX by identifying the ecological economic aspects of established APEX projects, by building the relationship between the growing academic circle and studies of ecological economists with environmental decision makers, and by educating stakeholders on ecological economics. www.iied.org/eep/pubs/MarketsforEnvironmentalServicesseries.html - The International Institute for Environment and Development has available a series of reports on Markets for Environmental Services, which focus on the financial, environmental and poverty impacts of recent initiatives to develop markets and other financial compensation mechanisms for environmental benefits (services) in rural areas of the developing world. http://www.gefweb.org/ResultsandImpact/Monitoring___Evaluation/Working_Paper__11.pdf - Recent review of Financial Arrangements in GEF-supported Biodiversity Projects. All Annexes and Appendices to this report are available at: http://www.gefweb.org/ResultsandImpact/Monitoring___Evaluation/Evaluationstudies/ evaluationstudies.html . http://www.cites.org/eng/prog/economics.shtml - A page on the CITES website that contains the agenda and documents from the recent Workshop on Economic Incentives and Trade Policy, as it affects endangered species. This workshop took place in Geneva, in December 2003. http://www.biodiv.org/meetings/cop-07/press/ - The COP-7 Press Page contains summaries of the daily events which took place during the Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP-7) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Malaysia, February 2004. http://www.icbgpanama.org - The International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups' website for Panama describes a bioprospecting project in Panama. http://www.yale.edu/environment/publications/bulletin/099.html - Bulletin 99, entitled "The Ecotourism Equation: Measuring the Impacts," published by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, has downloadable articles on measuring the impacts of ecotourism, defining its success, and successful design and implementation of ecotourism projects. http://www.fonafifo.com - website of Costa Rica's Fondo Nacional de Financiamiento Forestal (National Forest Financing Fund) which adminsters their well known Payment for Environmental Services program. It also provides new innovative conservation financing schemes such as the Certificates for Environmental Services. The site is in Spanish with some English sections. http://www.alear.org - the website for the Latin American and Caribbean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (ALEAR - Asociación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Economistas Ambientales y de Recursos Naturales). ALEAR is an NGO that assembles institutions and professionals interested in environmental and natural resource economics - its research, application and dissemination - in order to contribute to the sustainable development of Latin American countries. http://www.scidev.net/biodiversity - the website of the Science and Development Network, which has created a new biodiversity dossier. The dossier explores how concerns over biodiversity can be reconciled with the needs of developing countries. See the current debate posted: " Conservation and Development: are they compatible? " http://www.undp.org.cu/eventos/eventos6.html - Proceedings from an LAC workshop on

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