What are we seeking to achieve?

The markets component of the Ecosystem Services Project will define a range of ecosystem services that can be bought and sold through a new currency/commodity such as a carbon, water quality, salinity or biodiversity credit.

Once commodities for ecosystem services are defined we will actively work with catchment communities to find buyers who are willing to invest in environmental services. The relationship between ecosystem services, environmental commodities and funding mechanisms is depicted in the diagram below.

Finding the links between ecosystem services and those willing to invest is the major challenge for the project. In partnership with each of the case study regions the project will identify improved efficiencies in the delivery of existing natural resource management programs by governments and most importantly test the potential to raise non-government sector investment.

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