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The Ecosystem Crediting Platform (ECP) is a tool that translates environmental restoration and conservation actions into ecosystem service credits using the Willamette Partnership's Counting on the Environment standards

Who we are

The Willamette Partnership is a coalition of diverse leaders working to shift the way people value, manage, and regulate our environment. Read more...

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—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:

Willamette Partnership is hiring for a Director of Strategy and Business Development. 

 

Willamette Partnership is facilitating a dialogue on water quality trading with agencies for Oregon, Washington, and US EPA Region 10. Read more about the Joint Regional Agreement process

 

We've moved! Our new office location is at 4640 SW Macadam Avenue, Suite 50, Portland, OR 97239. (503) 946-8350

 

Listen to the President talk about the Rogue River example of how conservation produces savings for business, revenue for farmers, and healthy rivers for salmon. If your short on time, start listening at 9 min.

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 ecosystems for application to ecosystem markets and beyond.

 2)     Lead pilot projects in the Willamette Basin 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: development and agency approval of calculators for 4 ecosystem currencies targeted in version 1 of the Ecosystem Credit Accounting System; approval of integrated policy assurances for crediting multiple credits through one system; development of technology for project planning, verification, and tracking; and the application of the system to pilot projects with real credits and debits.

For more information see: Counting on the Environment

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