PEARL JAM Our partnership with the band Pearl Jam is focused on a Conservation Carbon project that will protect one of Madagascar's last remaining primary forests and thereby conserve biodiversity, reduce greenhouse emissions, and promote sustainable livelihoods. Pearl Jam pledged to "de-carbonate" their 2003 tour through a joint project with CI and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Pearl Jam is funding CI's Conservation Carbon program's efforts to create and manage a new protected area in the rainforest of Makira, Madagascar. more In 2002, Pearl Jam performed two benefit shows in Seattle in an effort to raise money for several non-profit organizations, including CI, with the intention that the funds would be used to establish a replicable model for other bands to become "carbon neutral." For more information on Pearl Jam, click here.