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Please join us for the
2013-2014 season of "Nature's Returns: Investing in
Ecosystem Services", coordinated by the Yale Center for
Business and the Environment. Our first featured speaker Ricardo
Bayon,
Partner and Co-Founder of EKO
Asset Management Partners, will
kick off the Green Infrastructure mini-series by discussing
private investment in natural infrastructure and the
opportunities of ecosystem services markets in built
environments. His presentation will draw in particular from the
case of Philadelphia, PA.
The online event will
last one hour and is free and open to the public. Email
invitations for following Nature's Returns webinars will be sent
as the dates approach. Visit the CBEY website for
up-to-date information regarding these and other events.
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Nature's
Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services
A Special Edition Webinar Series
Yale Center for Business and the
Environment
The Yale Center for
Business and the Environment (CBEY) is pleased to announce the
third year of Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services,
a webinar series that addresses the growing importance of
ecosystem service valuation and investment. The benefits that
human populations gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems
are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbon stored
in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and
pharmaceutical uses of plants are just a few examples of services
humans usually receive for free. A recent wave of efforts to
monetize the value of Ecosystem Services presents an opportunity
to both protect these assets and bring their worth onto the
market. Public and private mechanisms exist to use payments to
encourage responsible land management in order to preserve public
benefits. Currently, conservationists and investors alike are
moving into this space in hopes of achieving a win-win for the
economy and the environment.
So, what do Ecosystem
Services projects look like? Who are the practitioners involved
and what skills are most important in terms of getting into the
profession? What obstacles and opportunities does this field
face? These questions and more (including those from the
audience) will be addressed throughout the four focal areas of
the series.
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