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A report urges funders to prioritize Indigenous-led, non-market solutions over carbon trading to protect forests, highlighting the need for holistic and community-focused approaches. https://lnkd.in/eWQCKSg4

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⏰ Just Launched: New Report on Emerging Forest Finance Mechanisms 🌳 The Forest Declaration Assessment is excited to share its latest report, diving into the landscape of innovative finance instruments designed to advance global forest objectives. It explores emerging tools that blend funding sources, reduce investor risks, and enhance access for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and local communities (LCs). Short on time? Here’s what you should know: ➡️ Forests are crucial to Earth's ecosystems and economic health but remain underfunded in climate mitigation efforts. ➡️ There's an urgent need to shift finance away from harmful activities and increase funding for forest-positive initiatives. ➡️ Public funds alone can't close the investment gap in nature and forests—private sector engagement is essential. ➡️ Public funds alone can't close the investment gap in nature and forests—private sector engagement is essential. ➡️ From bonds and IP & LC funds to national forest funds and debt reduction instruments, each finance mechanism has its own pros and cons. However, when combined, they can help bridge the growing forest finance gap. Discover how new and existing finance instruments are being mobilized to protect, restore, and sustainably manage our forests. 🌍 🔗 Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/enxSWgEd Want to learn how innovative financing mechanisms can help halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation? Join us for a panel discussion with contributors to the report on Thursday! Register at: https://bit.ly/fdawebinar1 #forestfinance #sustainablemanagement #forestrestoration

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This week's must read. This article in Nature looks at how we're under pricing physical risk, and consequently under investing in adaptation. The result is delayed climate action, larger socio-economic losses and higher risks. https://lnkd.in/dCxed3aR #physicalclimaterisk #adaptation #climateimpacts

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What can agricultural land contribute to protecting biodiversity? In this issue of From the Ground Up, American Farmland Trust's Caro Roszell, and farm and forest policy consultant (and an editor of From the Ground Up) Brian Donahue, investigate this question, shining a light on the rise and fall of the populations of bobolink and other grassland birds in New England. They examine the factors contributing to their significant decline and provide hopeful pathways forward that could be a boon for both the region’s food systems and its biodiversity. With the rise of twentieth century industrial agriculture and suburban development, the farmland habitat for most grassland birds was greatly reduced. On the farmland that remained, earlier and more frequent hay cuttings improved the quality of the hay but degraded the habitat. Sadly, many hayfields now function as ecological sinks, attracting grassland birds to nest and then destroying nestlings before they can fly. Roszell and Donahue present a promising paradigm for farmers and wildlife to support each other. They write, “A rebirth of New England grass farming, after more than a century of decline, could yield multiple benefits: new opportunities for farmers and an increasing regional food supply; improved soil health, carbon storage, and resilience; and real biological conservation value from our farmland.” Read their thoughts and suggestions on how simple adjustments to hay cutting and grazing practices can be the pathway to an avian-agrarian partnership that will make habitats healthier for all species, human and wild. https://buff.ly/4emf5Wd #conservation #newengland #northeast #landconservation #wwfc #environment #biodiversity ##bobolink #agriculture #farming #grassland #grasslandbirds

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Want to learn about key climate change policies and global trade? 📆 Come check out our virtual event next Monday, July 22nd, 2024 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. HST 🎯 Making the US FOREST Act work? Key climate policy considerations from reflecting on the European Deforestation-Free Regulation featuring Dr. Krystof Obidzinski, Senior Forest Governance Expert, European Forest Institute (EFI); EWC RICE Fellow 💡 The US FOREST Act (Fostering Overseas Rule of Law and Environmentally Sound Trade) is a flagship US climate policy that seeks to remove illegal deforestation from agricultural commodities imported into the US market. If passed into law, the US FOREST Act could have major trade implications, as the US is a leading global importer and transporter of agricultural commodities, as well as potentially significant climate change benefits. As the US FOREST Act is yet to become a law while EUDR has almost a year of experience following its roll out in June 2023, there are important lessons and useful experience to reflect on. This presentation explores emergent EUDR lessons for the US FOREST Act with the view to avoid the pitfalls and improve effectiveness. 🔈 Register here https://lnkd.in/gSb-yweq

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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) releases a position paper on voluntary biodiversity credits, aimed at summarizing the development of the global voluntary biodiversity credit market. #esg #esginvesting

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Catch the Digital Magazine released by Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) Focused on #CarbonFinance and #Climate. The article highlights the importance of carbon finance for increased uptake of #cleancooking solutions & how this can help to solve the #climate crisis. Follow this link to read more👇🏿👇🏿 https://lnkd.in/dmAF9sgk

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The Central American Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategy (EASAC) strategy of targeting non-binding regional governance to influence national governments is inherently limited and may be ineffective on its own, find Fanny Howland, jean francois LE COQ, Sara Estefanía Collazos Acosta, Jose Arana, Genowefa Blundo Canto, Andrea Castellanos and Deissy Martínez-Barón (CIAT, CIRAD). Climate policy implementation in Central America depends on a range of factors: 1️⃣ International cooperation 2️⃣ Intersectoral and actor coordination 3️⃣ Availability of technical and research expertise 4️⃣ Research input Read below ⤵

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Op-ed from the Guild's Zander Evans: The current threats to forests are far too severe to continue business as usual. The proposed national old-growth policy can be a north star of ecological integrity if it incorporates science-based, community-supported stewardship. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g4qfaH6w #ForestStewardsGuild #OldGrowthPolicy #EcologicalIntegrity #CommunityStewardship #SustainableForestry #EnvironmentalProtection

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🌿 Biodiversity Credit Alliance (BCA) released the second issue paper on "Review Mechanisms for Supply-side Quality and Integrity in the Biodiversity Credit Market": https://lnkd.in/dnSHmaKr Manesh Lacoul, Global Coordinator, Biodiversity Credit Alliance, shares his insights: "BCA is about to publish its second issue paper, which delineates the process of developing an independent review mechanism for the emerging biodiversity credit market. BCA work streams are initiated to address the need for equity, quality and integrity early on in the development of the biodiversity credit market to help lay a foundation for its long-term sustainability and success.    Only with strong foundations will the market contribute effectively to global biodiversity conservation goals while upholding ethical standards and promoting social equity as outlined in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.   BCA is aligning its efforts to provide ongoing guidance in the direction illustrated in this paper, mobilizing partners and engaging in a broad stakeholder consultation process to establish this key component of the market governance framework.   BCA is also currently in its final preparations for the release of its third issue paper “Definition of a Biodiversity Credit”. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dx_rniZA #biodiversity #biodiversitycredits #BCA #supply #integrity

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🌳💡 Ever heard of REDD+? It's a big deal for forests in Southeast Asia! Our new Journal entry unpacks forest finance & how REDD+ initiatives are working (or not working) to protect these vital ecosystems. Head over to the blog to learn more!🍃🔍 #ForestConservation #REDDPlus #Sustainability #EcoFinance #SoutheastAsia https://lnkd.in/gTB89aZH

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This new OECD report references the updated USGCRP climate literacy guide released in September, "Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change." https://lnkd.in/gqXndQfm

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If tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank fourth in global emissions. But the good news is, we have tools available to make forests worth more alive than dead. One of those is high integrity jurisdictional-scale forest carbon credits. Read more about how they can channel financing to critical tropical forests and the encouraging signs carbon credit markets are ready for prime time by EDF’s, Sr. Director of Sustainable Finance, Forests, Dylan McCall-Landry. https://lnkd.in/d_mPuR56

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❗️New ActionAid report shows it’s possible to raise the trillions needed for climate action through boosting tax-to-GDP ratios in wealthy counties❗️ Read more in the report 👇 https://bit.ly/4aYdRym  

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Nature4Climate has launched the second edition of its comprehensive guide to including nature in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Featuring 15 key steps, the guide helps policymakers integrate nature-based solutions into every stage of national climate commitments, from preparation to target-setting and implementation. Kiryssa Kasprzyk of Conservation International highlights how the guide: 🔑 Enhances synergies between climate and biodiversity strategies. 🌍 Promotes rights-based approaches, amplifying the voices of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women, and children. 💡 Provides actionable solutions for financing and implementing nature-inclusive NDCs. This resource is a critical tool for governments aiming to maximise nature’s potential in addressing the climate crisis. ⬇️ Download the guide: https://lnkd.in/ej8Dz6md #WithNature #ClimateAction #COP29 #NDCs

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The newest Nyeleni Newsletter is out and explores the commodification and financialization of #nature through "Green Economy" mechanisms such as #carbon credits & biodiversity offset markets - leading to territorial grab and undermining environmental #justice. Those mechanisms deepen the power and reach of the very same actors who are responsible for the destruction of the #earth and #HumanRights injustices via their huge continued investments in mining, agribusiness and fossil fuels. Nothing is done to stop the corporate control, extraction, profit and over-consumption that is driving the crises in the first place. 💵 By changing the narrative towards “#GreenEconomies”, it shifts it away from the binding regulations and policy changes that our movements have been fighting for, which are needed to stop climate chaos and the collapse of biodiversity. It de-politicises questions of democratic access to and control of land, water, resources and territories by advancing a false narrative of a “triple win” (people, planet, profit), which stops us from asking who is paying the price, and who is reaping the profits, from these interventions. ▶ Read the full newsletter: https://lnkd.in/d9V4UeVh

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