Financing emission reductions for the future: State of voluntary carbon markets 2019

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financing emissions reductions for the future state of the voluntary carbon markets 2019 supporters about forest trends’ ecosystem marketplace ecosystem marketplace, an initiative of the non-profit organization forest trends, is a leading global source of information on environmental finance, markets, and payments for ecosystem services. as a web-based service, ecosystem marketplace publishes newsletters, breaking news, original feature articles, and annual reports about market-based approaches to valuing and financing ecosystem services. we believe that transparency is a hallmark of robust markets and that by providing accessible and trustworthy information on prices, regulation, science, and other market-relevant issues, we can contribute to market growth, catalyze new thinking, and spur the development of new markets and the policies and infrastructure needed to support them. ecosystem marketplace is financially supported by a diverse set of organizations including multilateral and bilateral government agencies, private foundations, and corporations involved in banking, investment, and various ecosystem services. forest trends works to conserve forests and other ecosystems through the creation and wide adoption of a broad range of environmental finance, markets and other payment and incentive mechanisms. forest trends does so by 1) providing transparent information on ecosystem values, finance, and markets through knowledge acquisition, analysis, and dissemination; 2) …

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