EcoAsset Markets, Inc.
EAM believes that quantifying and discovering the monetary value of the important services provided by nature is an important step in protecting the environment. Currently, no one pays for the things that we all use but no one owns—like clean air. Putting a value on clean air—by creating a financial security to represent a defined ’measured clean air unit’—encourages those who value clean air to invest. It also encourages those who have dirtied the air to reduce their emissions in order to profit by creating more clean air.
In order to make this possible, EAM has developed methods and software applications to integrate a broad array of information providing new knowledge about natural systems – for example, the effects of land use changes, like building homes or restoring wetlands, on the environmental assets we need to live. The result of these methods and using these tools is information for local officials, developers, and conservation organizations to guide their planning and economic policies. It also allows businesspeople and investment bankers to start trading in these environmental assets.
The Company was an early developer of software using geographic information, data management and analytic systems
encompassing real estate, environmental, geographic and demographic data and applying it to ecosystem services and valuation. It’s first application, REALmap, provided insight and analytics for land use decisions. Other intellectual properties include:
• Biodiversity Assessment Algorithms
• Demographic, Economic, and Ecological Research on U.S. Opportunities for Ecosystem Service Market Development.
• Landguides Methods
• Small Forest Carbon Sequestration Measurement Methods
• Ecosystem Indicators Reporting Protocol
• EcoAsset Valuation Model
• Database of EcoAsset Monetization Programs and Market Transactions