The Katoomba Group

The Katoomba Group is an initiative of Forest Trends. It is a global network of practitioners working to promote the use of and improve capacity for payments for ecosystem services (PES). The Katoomba Group addresses key challenges to developing markets and payments for ecosystem services, confronting issues ranging from enabling legislation through establishment of new market institutions to testing methods for successful project design. The Katoomba Group has convened numerous global conferences and training workshops, published and contributed to a range of key publications and tools around policy, legal and technical issues, and helped incubate the development of a range of new PES schemes, including the BioCarbon Fund at the World Bank and the Mexican PES Fund. The Katoomba Group has also advised policy discussions on financial incentives for conservation in numerous countries including Brazil, China, Colombia, Ghana, India, Peru, and Uganda