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The Willamette Partnership
Who we are | What we want | What we’re doing
For the package of protocols, tools & resources for Ecosystem Credit Accounting
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Who we are
The Willamette Partnership is a coalition of diverse leaders working to shift the way people value, manage, and regulate our environment.
What we want
We want ecological resiliency. We believe naturally functioning ecosystems form the cornerstone of livable communities and a healthy, sustainable economy. To get this, we need to increase the pace, scope, and effectiveness of conservation in the Willamette Basin—that’s our mission.
To achieve our mission we are focusing our attention in three core areas:
- Integrated and strategic investment in ecosystems
- A fair and transparent system for people to buy and sell environmental restoration benefits
- Business models to move beyond compliance-based projects to stewardship of ecosystems
What we’re doing
News:
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February 19: Willamette Partnership praised for leading the nation at Portland’s City Club
The Willamette Partnership initiated its Counting on the Environment Program, with the help of essential public and non-profit stakeholders, in November of 2008. This two-year program, funded by a grant from the Natural Resource and Conservation Service, includes an aggressive effort to:
1) Obtain Oregon’s first multi-stakeholder agreement to use a shared accounting system for quantifying impacts and benefits to ecosystem services for application to ecosystem markets and beyond.
2) Lead pilot projects to demonstrate the real environmental benefits of this functions-based accounting system, and compare its results with those from other approaches
3) Develop the tools farmers, foresters, and other land managers need to:
- evaluate and participate in emerging ecosystem service markets
- prioritize restoration actions when making land management decisions
- access payments for doing the right kind of restoration actions in the best places
Great progress has been made to date, as demonstrated by the: selection of four ecosystem services that will be included in the first version of a credit calculator; development of the calculator, its associated assurance package and required technology; development of both a project implementation and a credit issuance process; and the initial application of the system to pilot projects.
Please follow this link for more information: Counting on the Environment