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Using Ecosystem Service Markets to Address our Most Pressing Environmental Challenges
Every year businesses and communities spend tens of millions of dollars on environmental compliance much of it mandated by regulations designed to meet a very limited range of highly visible environmental problems. The trouble with huge investments into a limited number of highly visible environmental issues is they rarely address the more complex, systemic issues that led to the problems in the first place diverting us from a path to sustainability where healthy and resilient ecosystems are the cornerstone of a healthy economy.
Worldwide, there has been an explosion of growth in market mechanisms to pay for the things naturally functioning ecosystems do for society such as trees taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen and cooling stream water, or forests purifying our drinking water, and wetlands filtering and recharging our groundwater and floodplains reducing the impacts of flood events.
Ecosystem service markets provide a pivotal link between people willing to pay for actions that improve and protect our environment and those who can take those actions. Oregon has nurtured creative thinking and environmental innovation and leadership for decades and is now poised to propel ecosystem service markets as a way to resolve some of our most challenging environmental problems while creating the economies that support the people doing it.
David Primozich serves as Executive Director of the Willamette Partnership - a coalition of stakeholder leaders working to increase the pace, scope, and effectiveness of conservation. The Partnership is currently developing the tools and policies needed to make ecosystem service markets work to achieve our ecological goals. David has worked on natural resource policy and planning projects since 1998. Prior to helping form the Willamette Partnership, he led production of the Willamette Subbasin Plan a comprehensive, peer reviewed strategy to guide fish and wildlife conservation funding and project development in the Willamette Basin.
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LocationDoubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center
1000 NE Multnomah
Portland, OR
United States
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