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For an excellent overview of various environmental markets, as well as the latest news from the worlds of carbon, water, and biodiversity, visit Ecosystem Marketplace. In particular, the site has an excellent set of downloadable publications on issues related to carbon and mitigation/conservation banking. And there is an excellent backgrounder on the various markets for ecosystem services emerging worldwide.

Another site that might be of interest is that for the Katoomba Group on ecosystem services. Also see the following downloadable documents:

For an exhaustive analysis of the problems facing the world's ecosystems, see the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

For carbon and climate change, see the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

For carbon trading, see:

For biodiversity markets, such as the markets for wetland mitigation or conservation banking in the US, see the Ecosystem Marketplace (above), or else the home page of the US National Mitigation Bankers Association

An excellent book about the concept of ecosystem services is The New Economy of Nature by Gretchen Daily and Katherine Ellison.

Other useful sites:

Business cannot function if ecosystems and the services they deliver—like water, biodiversity, fiber, food, and climate—are degraded or out of balance.
—World Business Council for Sustainable Development