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🌍🌱 At ecosecurities, we're deploying solutions now that can make a huge impact, provided sufficient climate finance is channeled into high-quality projects. These projects are crucial for reducing emissions and delivering co-benefits like biodiversity conservation and community development, particularly to the Global South.   Improvements can always be made and we're continuously working with standard setters to improve verification methodologies, ensuring the highest quality and integrity of carbon credits. This ongoing collaboration helps build a more robust and transparent market.   With long-term demand signals from corporates, governments, and financiers, we can unlock the full potential of carbon markets. Stable and predictable demand is essential for encouraging investment and scaling impactful climate projects. Together, we can drive significant progress towards global climate goals! 🌿💼   Read more about the potential of carbon markets in the Global South from the excellent Fred Krupp: https://lnkd.in/eYfvYzyE

🤔 Did You Know? – Investing in Climate, Sustainability, and Oceans 🌎 Looking to make a difference with your investments? Several types of bonds are designed to help protect our planet while generating potential returns! 🌿 1️⃣ Climate Bonds focus specifically on projects that combat climate change—like developing wind farms and solar energy plants. They're ideal for investors passionate about climate action and resilience. 🔆🌾 2️⃣ Sustainability-Linked Bonds (SLBs) provide flexibility. Instead of funding specific projects, they tie financial terms to a company’s overall sustainability performance. Companies are rewarded for hitting sustainability targets like reducing emissions or improving diversity. 📊♻️ 3️⃣ Blue Bonds are all about protecting our oceans. They fund marine conservation efforts, sustainable fisheries, and clean water projects, supporting United Nations SDG 14 (Life Below Water). If you care about preserving marine ecosystems, Blue Bonds are your go-to! 🌊🐟 Explore these diverse ways to invest in a sustainable future while making your portfolio greener! #DidYouKnow #ClimateBonds #SLBs #BlueBonds #SustainableInvesting #GreenFinance #SaveOurPlanet #OceansFirst #EcoInvestments #FinancialFuture #FinancEarthMission Marwa Bendaoud Patricia Pereira Diogo

Have you ever heard of Climate Bonds, Sustainability-Linked Bonds, or Blue Bonds? 💡🌱 If not, go check out our new post on FinancEarth Mission's page! 👇

The use of carbon offsets *can* have valuable benefits for the enhancement of nature, biodiversity, and improving livelihoods, but can also be a significant pitfall on the journey to meeting our climate targets. Furthermore, there are other pitfalls to be aware of (see below). Carbon offsets cannot be used in place of attaining zero emissions in your supply chain, and physically reducing outputs. Which is why changing language towards 'real zero' from 'net zero' could embed the culture we need to strive for. It does not matter how many tree's we plant, they take time to sequester the emissions and this can be undone through poor management, droughts or forest fires. What will matter in the end is cutting emissions from source. If carbon offset schemes are to be used, those purchasing carbon offsets need to ask themselves the following questions when selecting projects: - How long will this safely sequester carbon for? : If confidence is low that it is less than a century, then there is little value in terms of emissions reduction. - How quickly will this sequester carbon? : Faster the better, the rapid decline in emissions and the reduction in the rate of increase of carbon in the atmosphere needs to start now. - Can this method sequester the quantity of carbon required? : There is not much accountability for over promising and underdelivering. - Is this carbon offset scheme trust worthy? : Look for eco-labels and reputable organisations. - Am I just paying for someone else not to emit carbon? : Whilst potentially resulting in improvements in livelihoods and in biodiversity, sometimes you are not sequestering carbon at all. Support livelihoods and biodiversity in other ways, as there is also the risk with the following question. - Are the carbon offset schemes sensitive to the community and environment in which they are being placed? : Land grabs in Africa, and corporations moving into sensitive ecosystems for tree planting schemes can cause more damage than good. - Is there anything I can do instead to reduce emissions in my operations? : Reducing your carbon emissions starts with your activities, and you need a plan of action and the capability to carry that out. Daniela Gonzalez Alok Choudhary Shak Gohir Carl Che Hamid Moradlou Sube Singh Karen Macpherson #Sustainability #Carbon #SupplyChain #NetZero

What are some of the trade-offs involved in the green transition? I'll be taking part in a panel next week hosted by Clement Sefa-Nyarko, PhD on 'The psychosociology of climate response for environmental sustainability'. I'll be discussing some of the competing incentives and interests of stakeholders involved in the pursuit of sustainability. How might the push for renewables affect the planet's biodiverse regions? How might this affect marginalised communities? And what could be done to bridge these different interests? #GreenTransition #Sustainability #ClimateAction https://lnkd.in/et79Uncd

Natural climate solutions like conserving forests could deliver up to one-third of the emissions reductions required by 2030 to stay on track with the Paris Agreement. The voluntary carbon market—when done right—is one tool to shift finance into more sustainable investments. This primer can help USAID Missions effectively navigate the evolving and complex NCS carbon market space and ensure carbon market projects are held to the highest standard in terms of transparency and results. https://lnkd.in/eHmP-yY8

Reciently there has been a great discussions on the international level about carbon markets and their benefits. They are beneficial, if... Loodushoiu Fond wishes to emphezise, that it is crucial to avoid so called green grabbing, that in many countries across the tropics or Eastern #EU will face, if carbon markets promote cheaply gained SDG/ESG aims, where the obligations for 40 years process shall fall on communities that are frequently the most vulnerable to climate impacts. Landowners are usually clueless about the value of the potential biodiversity and carbon credits or bonds. #BOS #biodiversitycredits #carboncredits #biodiversitystrategy #EU #noonesleftbehind #GreenDeal #greengrabbing #landowners We have seen, how the companies with ESG/ SDG/ CSRD/ EU taxonomy are wishing to gain biodiversity of carbon "credits" cheaply from the landowner. €0,2/per plant and then it's done. Or €1 for 1m2 of conserved area.  This helps to reach the sustainability report goal but not the real change on the field. Secondly, SDG investment tend to go to support monitoring and educating. Instead, they should support real actions, such as carry out, maintain and hold nature values with landowners (or in global south the communities) in or outside the conservation areas. Making it once again - obligatory and expensive for land stewards. Making it once again - obligatory and expencive for land stewards. How could we overcome that the real support and change would reach to the one who actually should change something on the field? https://lnkd.in/eYfvYzyE

As the destructive power of climate change causes ever-greater damage, we must reduce the pollution that’s causing it. At the same time, these developing countries need to grow their economies—a process that for decades in the Global North meant pouring climate pollution into the atmosphere. It’s imperative that we find ways for emerging economies to grow without adding a lot more pollution, and that takes deep pockets. The money to get this done resides mostly in the private sector. Carbon markets—a much debated but indispensable tool for financing climate solutions—are one key to unlocking the funds. They work like this: Companies buy carbon credits, which provide funds for specific activities, like producing clean energy or protecting forests that absorb carbon emissions. If the markets are designed right, and follow principles for high integrity carbon credits, they deliver funding to those on the front lines of the climate crisis. -Time.com #carboncredits #conservation #vcm #highintegritycredits #climatesolutions #commentary https://lnkd.in/eYfvYzyE

Is it ethical for governments and companies to rely on carbon removals in their 'net zero' plans? Are they contributing to unsustainable land use change? A new paper in Nature from our expert network member Kate Dooley sounds the alarm on looming social and environmental impacts from land use change driven by unsustainable demand for carbon removal. A staggering 1 billion hectares of land would be needed to satisfy the demand for land-based carbon removal in national climate pledges. That's more than the combined areas of South Africa, India, Turkey and the European Union. Over reliance on offsetting in ‘net zero’ strategies at the global, national and corporate level is creating a land pressure crisis. This increasing competition over land could drive negative repercussions on biodiverse ecosystems, food sovereignty, and vulnerable and land-dependent peoples’ tenure and livelihoods. Read the details here ⬇️

Carbon offset projects hold great promise in advancing climate action, but to unlock their full potential, it’s crucial that they center people and nature. Transparency and authentic community engagement are essential for building trust and ensuring positive impacts. By working together with local communities and safeguarding ecosystems, companies can strengthen their credibility and contribute to meaningful, long-term solutions. I’m optimistic that with the right approach, this growing sector will play a pivotal role in the fight against climate change ✨🌿. #Sustainability #ClimateAction #SocialJustice https://grain.org/e/7190