Defenders' Experts
Goals of Marketplace for Nature
1. Ecological effectiveness. Projects will have concrete goals and monitoring to ensure that ecological benefits are being realized. Principles of conservation biology including connectivity, the need for natural processes and habitats and species at risk will drive project planning.
2. Multiple values. Priority projects will address water quality and quantity, wetlands, endangered species, carbon and important fish and wildlife habitat. Other services may include pollinator habitat and restoration of ecological processes like fire and flooding.
3. Strategic investments at a landscape scale. The Marketplace will reward investors who purchase credits from projects in priority areas, like those identified in the State Wildlife Action Plans.
4. Transparent and credible. Existing markets are opaque and hard to track. The Marketplace for Nature will apply, test, evaluate and refine tools in the initial pilot areas to ensure their efficacy and credibility.
5. Accessible with low transaction costs. The administration of the Marketplace will emphasize efficiency and practicality to attract buyers and sellers.
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The Marketplace for Nature, initiated by Defenders of Wildlife and managed by a consortium of public and private organizations to demonstrate how a voluntary multi-credit ecosystem marketplace will work.
Developing a standard approach to measuring habitat quantity and quality within ecosystem service markets that can be accepted and applied across the U.S. Read more.
Partners working together to develop rigorous standards for the Marketplace for Nature. See who's involved.
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