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Capital Markets and Sustainable Forestry:
Investment Opportunities

By Constance Best, PFT Managing Director and
Michael Jenkins, Executive Director of Forest Trends

Prepared for the
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

This groundbreaking report details the potential of sustainable forestry to protect and enhance forests worldwide, while fostering economic growth and ecological values. Whether you are a forestland owner, policy-maker, private investor or philanthropic grant-maker, Capital Markets and Sustainable Forestry will expand your understanding of both the opportunities and the challenges of scaling up sustainable forestry as a profitable business model.

investment To better reward investments in forest stewardship, markets must be expanded for the high-quality timber products that come from well-managed private forests.

 

 Highlights Include:
  • An overview of global forest change and loss.
  • Comparisons between the economics and management systems of conventional and sustainable forestry.
  • New sources of return from forests, including ecosystem services and ecotourism.
  • A strategy for catalytic investment in this emerging sector.
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Clean, clear water and great stores of carbon are both forest products for which new markets are being developed.

Read the Summary of Findings in the Fall 1999 issue of Pacific Forests. [DOWNLOAD PDF]

This 80-page report is available by ordering it from PFT, or downloading it as a PDF file. [DOWNLOAD PDF]