Todd Gartner is a Senior Associate for the World Resources Institute’s People and Ecosystem Program. He run’s WRI’s Nature for Water initiative working with governments and businesses to invest in conserving and restoring forests, wetlands, and other ecosystems in order to secure freshwater supplies, reduce flood risks, and obtain other economic and social benefits. Todd works with partners to develop new ways to finance conservation and restoration though the use of conservation incentives and market-based strategies such as habitat offsets, payments for the protection of drinking water, water quality trading and carbon markets.
Gartner is also the Conservation Incentives Manager for the American Forest Foundation and is a PERC Enviropeneur alum.
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