Comments on: The ‘environmental services’ of rainforests… tradable commodities? http://socfinance.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/the-environmental-services-of-rainforests-tradable-commodities/ a blog on the social studies of finance Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: propaganda press http://socfinance.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/the-environmental-services-of-rainforests-tradable-commodities/#comment-1125 propaganda press Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:42:42 +0000 http://socfinance.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-1125 this is another scam we in Guyana will benefit from this? lol time will tell this is another scam we in Guyana will benefit from this? lol
time will tell

]]> By: danielbeunza http://socfinance.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/the-environmental-services-of-rainforests-tradable-commodities/#comment-1116 danielbeunza Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:20:18 +0000 http://socfinance.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-1116 Very interesting. The question it raises is, how are the capital markets best used to accomplish these socially-desirable big goals? Here at Columbia, my colleague Geoff Heal has been promoting a related initiative, that would compensate developing countries from avoided deforestation: http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/gheal/ I have been following the issue rather closely... and it is interesting -- it mirrors the field-building efforts of Leo Melamed in getting an options market approved. Very interesting. The question it raises is, how are the capital markets best used to accomplish these socially-desirable big goals? Here at Columbia, my colleague Geoff Heal has been promoting a related initiative, that would compensate developing countries from avoided deforestation:

http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/gheal/

I have been following the issue rather closely… and it is interesting — it mirrors the field-building efforts of Leo Melamed in getting an options market approved.

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