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𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬: 𝐀 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 🌍💚 Did you know? The recent US Voluntary Carbon Markets Joint Policy Statement and Principles aim to enhance transparency and integrity in carbon markets. This is a significant step towards fostering trust and people's participation in global climate action. 🔍 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭? New guidelines and advanced technologies are set to revolutionize voluntary carbon markets, ensuring robust measurement, monitoring, and verification of carbon credits. 🌿 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐈𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥: ➡ 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: Enhanced regulation provides a clearer, more trustworthy landscape for carbon credits, helping us strategize our conservation efforts better. ➡ 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: Greater transparency boosts investor confidence, opening new avenues for funding and supporting our ecosystem restoration projects. ➡ 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭: With increased market integrity, Ecobal will further its mission of transforming barren lands into thriving ecosystems, making a tangible impact on biodiversity and climate change. 💼 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐔𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Ecobal’s efforts in creating valuable carbon assets align perfectly with these new regulations, ensuring our initiatives contribute effectively to global climate goals. 📊 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: With Ecobal, you're not just supporting conservation; you're part of a global effort to enhance the credibility and impact of voluntary carbon markets. Together, we can create a more sustainable future. 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞: https://lnkd.in/dmHeh6F5 #Ecobal #ClimateAction #VoluntaryCarbonMarkets #Sustainability #GreenTech

There is no economic growth without reversing nature loss. As the recent Living Planet Report shows, we’re approaching numerous tipping points. But companies have the tools at their disposal to ensure business resilience and continuity, including: 💡Understanding their dependency on nature, leveraging WWF’s Risk Filter Suite 🗣️Disclosing the risk, including through Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) 🎯Setting nature targets, including through the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) 🌎Investing in nature, including forests, freshwater, and sustainable agriculture. It just makes business sense. Investing in a nature-positive economy could unlock $10.1 trillion of business opportunities annually and create 395 million jobs by 2030.   Thank you to Trellis Group’s #Bloom24 for hosting me to speak on how to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. As the CBD COP 16 is underway, I’m hopeful that both companies and businesses will make progress in implementing nature strategies, so that we can achieve the Global Biodiversity Framework by 2030. As the Living Planet Report shows, there’s no time to waste.

Sustainability isn’t just a business focus for me—it’s a personal priority. That’s why my team and I are working on brine valorization technology and its potential to make a real difference. Just think - around 142 M m3 of brine are discharged into the oceans every day, as estimated in research on global desalination processes. Brine discharge has harmful environmental impacts, such as increasing salinity and reducing oxygen levels in marine ecosystems. By finding innovative ways to avoid this, we’re protecting aquatic ecosystems and taking meaningful action toward environmental sustainability. It resonates with my values and helps drive the bigger picture of the global ESG agenda. Let's make our world cleaner 🌏 #environment #ESG #brine #brinedischarge #brinevalorization #watertech Check our NeoBrine Technologies to keep an eye on our news.

🌲Every year, deforestation costs the world between US$2 trillion and US$4.5 trillion, due to the declining value of ecosystem services. https://bit.ly/3wHPp5S Yet, despite ambitions to reverse forest loss, the world is still far from achieving zero deforestation.  In her recent article, Morningstar Sustainalytics’ Yu Rung (Ruby) Jeng discusses the role investors can play in combatting commodity-driven deforestation. By constructing portfolios using comprehensive risk assessments and robust deforestation and land conversion strategies, investors can contribute to not only preserving forests and associated ecosystem services, but ultimately protecting global economic wealth. #deforestation #investors #impact #ESG

Excited to share that our Executive President, Helena Li together with CDL Chief Sustainability Officer Esther An, AIA Group Head of Sustainability Amita Chaudhury, and Perfect Corp Chief Strategy Officer and EVP Louis Chen, joined a panel on "Building a Low-Carbon, Resilient Future for Asia." Moderated by Owen Rolt from Reuters NEXT, the discussion focused on tackling climate challenges, balancing mitigation with supply chain adaptation, and enhancing biodiversity. Learn more about our initiatives and send us a DM! #TrinasolarAPAC #Trinasolar #solarpanels #solarmodules #solarpower #greenenergy #agrivoltaics #tracker #solartracker #ReutersNEXT

Nature as an Asset Class: A Strategic Pillar for Corporate Sustainability #Nature as an #asset class involves recognizing and assigning #EconomicValue to ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources. Traditionally, nature has been viewed as a resource to exploit, but this concept shifts the narrative toward preservation, regeneration, and responsible use. Whether it’s forests, wetlands, or carbon sinks, nature is becoming an essential component of financial decision-making. These "natural assets" are now being evaluated in terms of their ability to provide essential services, such as carbon sequestration, water purification, or flood control. For CEOs and CFOs, integrating nature into an investment strategy means recognizing the intrinsic value of ecosystems and understanding how their degradation can pose significant risks to business continuity, supply chains, and market performance. Bluebell Index believes that companies who integrate natural capital into their sustainability strategies will unlock new growth opportunities, meet evolving regulatory requirements, and strengthen their resilience in a rapidly changing world and we are working to help them in this transition for a low carbon economy. #sustainability #bluebellindex #lowcarboneconomy #environmentalassets Andrea Lasevitch Derek Brett Gallo Phelipe Spielmann

“Over the next few years, if natural capital is to become a really established asset class… as an industry we’ve got to create really long-term fundable projects for nature restoration. Then the world can harness the power of private capital into restoring nature.” 💬🌳🦋   Peter Bachmann, Managing Director, Sustainable Infrastructure, comments on the outcome of COP16 and the ongoing challenge to create investable nature projects in an article for IPE Real Assets.   The summit brought together an estimated 5,000 businesses, signalling the growing recognition of biodiversity as a critical business issue. There is a growing emphasis on improving supply chains and minimising company impacts on #biodiversity, with #carboncredits being positioned as a voluntary tool for additional positive action.    However, Peter highlighted the need for more countries to actively participate in the implementation of biodiversity with only 44 out of 196 producing a biodiversity plan.   https://lnkd.in/eqXWccnX   #naturalcapital

Africa’s natural resources hold the key to a planet-positive future. At Kinjani, we’re championing Regenerative Solutions: commercial science-driven innovations that work with ecosystems to tackle climate change, restore biodiversity, and unlock new economic opportunities.  Explore how African ingenuity is leading the way in food systems, urbanisation, critical minerals, and materials. Together, we can build solutions that regenerate our planet while driving growth and resilience.  👉 Read the blog to learn more about how Kinjani is shaping Africa’s climate innovation revolution: https://lnkd.in/dKQuJZmJ

This #WorldEnvironmentDay, the data paints a stark picture: land degradation, fueled by pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss, is creating a ripple effect of failing crops, vanishing water sources, and weakening economies. The poorest communities feel the brunt of this burden, and sustainable development suffers. But here's the surprising twist: inaction is far more expensive than restoration. Every dollar invested in ecosystem restoration generates up to thirty dollars in economic benefits. That's a 30:1 return! Think about it - land restoration isn't just about saving the planet, it's about securing a prosperous future for all. This World Environment Day, let's be #GenerationRestoration. Here's how environmental finance can be the key: 1. Deliver on Restoration Commitments: Countries need to fulfill their pledges to restore degraded land and ecosystems, aligning with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. 2. Halt Deforestation: National climate action plans must prioritize stopping and reversing deforestation by 2030. 3. Scale Up Green Finance: Developing countries need significant financial support to adapt to extreme weather events, protect nature, and achieve sustainable development. Investing in land restoration isn't charity, it's smart economics. It's about building resilience, unlocking economic opportunities, and creating a thriving future for both our planet and humanity. Let's redirect financial resources towards sustainable land management and break free from the cycle of degradation. This World Environment Day, let's be the generation that chooses restoration and reaps the rewards. #WorldEnvironmentDay #EnvironmentalFinance #InvestInOurFuture

With approximately one third of global greenhouse gas emissions attributed to agriculture, a looming plastic pollution crisis, and the threat of only 60 harvests remaining due to soil mismanagement, the urgency for transformative action within the foodservice industry is indisputable. At Better Earth, we are zeroing in on the packaging side of that equation - which adds up to a lot. We're on a mission to pioneer plant-based packaging that is truly regenerative from field to fork to field. We know it's linear thinking (and linearly designed stuff) that got us into this mess, and it'll only be through active collaboration and circular mindsets that we navigate our way out. In our 3rd annual Impact Report, we hope you see exactly this approach. This was a powerful year in so many ways, and there's much to celebrate. We donated over $34,000 in compostable packaging to community organizations in need and engaged over 16,700 people at closed loop community events like RayDay and Taste of AgLanta. We launched our Climate Smart Packaging program with the Farmer's Fiber Collection, and through the process, identified that the Farmer's Fiber agricultural process sequesters one TON of carbon per acre per year. And the Executive Team signed off on our first-ever comprehensive Environmental Management Plan to define goals and track resource use across all Better Earth operations. We're already on a fast track to meeting our waste reduction goals across Distribution Centers! Transparency has long been a guiding principle at Better Earth. We invite you to check out where we are, how far we've come, and our areas for improvement by reading the Impact Report here --> https://lnkd.in/epNmV6zY