Greening Latin America: Investing in Nature for a Sustainable Future | Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature ConservancyWritten by Brad Parker Published on December 13th, 2011 | Discuss This Article Mark Tercek is the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. In the recent past, sugarcane growers and conservationists may have seemed unlikely allies.

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The new Latin American Water Funds Partnership will significantly expand a successful model we developed in Quito, Ecuador, in 2000, through which utility companies, breweries and other downstream users voluntarily provide funding for the conservation of forests and watersheds upstream. Read more…