Borneo Tropical Rainforest Foundation
BTRF was established in 2004 with a unique Borneo focus and a direct mandate at Government level to develop for rainforest and protected area management. It operates as a non-profit Foundation under the supervisory authority of the Swiss Department of Internal Affairs and has its Secretariat within the International Environment House complex in Geneva; as well as a field office in Jakarta through its partnership with the Yayasan Hutan Tropis Borneo (YHTB).
Global Eco-Rescue, Ltd.
Eco-Rescue is an innovative management group at the forefront of the transition to an ecologically and energy constrained global economy.It is developing, funding and managing a large, diversified portfolio of natural resource, renewable energy and environmental projects that will be run on a best practice, sustainable and profitable basis.
In achieving this, Eco-Rescue intends to deliver significant returns to investors demonstratively contributing to the protection of the eco-systems that regulate the climate and chemical composition of the world we live in.
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“ The forthcoming COP arguably the most critical international gathering of this Millennium. ”
Introduction
Green Renaissance is conceived as an initiative of the Borneo Tropical Rainforest Foundation and Global Eco-Rescue Foundation in consultation with the Government of Indonesia and the Organising Committee of the Bali Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Together the aim will be to promote a new partnership between conservation and capital capable of implementing dynamic long-term responses to the environmental, economic and social crises facing the planet.
Above all, given the growing urgency, the initiative will seek to expedite the securitization of ecosystems in a manner that benefits the range of stakeholders on an unprecedented scale. Never more, given current levels of scientific, political and media consciousness, has the timing for such a Green Renaissance been more opportune … or more critical.
Background
Green Renaissance is set against the backdrop of a climate change crisis that Sir Nicholas Stern described in his landmark report on the Economics of Climate Change as "the greatest market failure the world has seen." Climate Change is costing the Earth, and it is costing business.
Traditional aid and financial mechanisms are increasingly inadequate to confront the escalating pace and magnitude of environmental degradation. Meanwhile, market tools that could constructively engage the private sector - the missing stakeholder - as a central entity in the environmental arena have been largely lacking.
The Green Renaissance aims to be the catalyst for a decisive response from the business and financial communities to priority global issues. In short, it will aim to make Bali the motor as well as the acronym for Bringing About Long-term Investment - for people, planet, profits and prosperity.
