Strategic Relationships
Equitable Origin
Equitable Origin seeks to create a new norm for oil and gas exploration and production in which oil and gas operators are publically distinguished and financially rewarded for outstanding social, environmental, and safety performance. We believe that by creating a comprehensive umbrella system that consolidates and exceeds existing standards, environmentally and socially responsible oil and gas exploration and production will become more economically viable.
The Ecosystem Marketplace
The Ecosystem Marketplace, a project of Forest Trends, is a leading source of news, data, and analytics on markets and payments for ecosystem services (such as water quality, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity). We believe that by making accessible information on policy, finance, regulation, science, business, and other market-relevant factors, markets for ecosystem services will one day become a fundamental part of our economic system, helping give value to environmental services that, for too long, have been taken for granted. In providing free reliable market information, we hope not only to facilitate transactions (thereby lowering transaction costs), but also to catalyze new thinking, spur the development of new markets and the infrastructure that supports them, and achieve effective and equitable nature conservation.
Growing Our Markets By Strategic Collaboration
Our strategic relationships were established based upon mutually beneficial skill sets and business models. Our business scope includes a wide variety of sectors and we will continue to create strong value added relationships in key sectors going forward. The following are some of our valued collaborative relationships.
The Environment Bank
The Environment Bank company has been established to facilitate the delivery of mitigation and compensation schemes associated with planned development. National strategy and policy now requires the planning system not only to mitigate the effects of development on the natural environment, but also to deliver nature conservation enhancements. The Environment Bank Ltd provides a mechanism for creating, managing and enhancing habitats and landscapes by engaging with developers and landowners.
Food Market Maker
MarketMaker is a national partnership of land grant institutions and State Departments of Agriculture dedicated to the development of a comprehensive interactive data base of food industry marketing and business data. It is currently one of the most extensive collections of searchable food industry related data in the country. All the information can be mapped and queried by the user.