{"id":997,"date":"2005-04-01T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/04\/01\/banking-on-the-environment\/"},"modified":"2005-04-01T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T18:51:00","slug":"banking-on-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/banking-on-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking on the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"
From IWon News via Eco-Portal, news<\/a> that “ABN AMRO Holding NV (ABN) and Citigroup Inc. (C) are backing a green group’s Web site in a move that underlines the growing opportunities such banks are associating with environmental trading.” The site, EcosystemMarketplace<\/a>, bills itself as <\/p>\n …the place where providers and beneficiaries of ecosystem services get together to capture the value associated with ecosystem services. We provide a coordinated and informative platform for users and providers of ecosystem services to meet and communicate. Furthermore, we improve the quality and value of ecosystem transactions by providing up-to-date information, news, and expertise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It will be very interesting to see if more relationships like this spring up in the wake of the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment.<\/p>\n Technorati tags: ecosystems<\/a>, business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From IWon News via Eco-Portal, news that “ABN AMRO Holding NV (ABN) and Citigroup Inc. (C) are backing a green group’s Web site in a move that underlines the growing [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n