Introduction to ecosystem services (Ecosystem Marketplace)

Background document prepared by Ecosystems Marketplace

(Ecosystem Services table)The Ecosystems Marketplace website has regular news and reports on environmental markets, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), climate change, water and biodiversity.

In this introduction they provide a brief overview of the origins of the concept of ecosystem services and how it is being applied around the world.

There is an explanation of the different mechanisms used in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) which are payments from different sources (e.g. public and private) to different stakeholders to reward them for conserving ecosystems.

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This summary was prepared by Why Green Economy?. The views expressed have been paraphrased. See the original source for more information.

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