BIOECON XXIV had parallel sessions on a broad range of topics within the umbrella of biodiversity economics and the sustainable development goals, including: marine and ocean economics, the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services in economic development, plant genetic resources and food security issues, deforestation and development, fisheries, institutions and instruments (e.g. Payments for Ecosystem Services), development and conservation, wildlife conservation and endangered species, international trade and regulation and climate change. Further, biodiversity finance, risk assessment and corporate disclosure, corporate governance structure and process, organisational change, valuation and investor behaviour.

For more information on the conference and programme see here.

Ben Balmford on “Designing markets for bundled environmental goods”, see here.

Ben Groom on “Biodiversity metrics, public preferences, and the cost-based approach”, see here. 

Charles Palmer on “Forest co-management and poverty-environment traps“, see here.

Lorenzo Sileci on “Carbon Pricing with Regressive Co-benefits: Air Quality and Health Effects from British Columbia’s Carbon Tax are Positive but Unequally Distributed“, see here.