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SBTi's planned update to their guidance to include the use of voluntary carbon credits in companies' paths to net-zero is a MASSIVE opportunity for nature. With this change, family forest owners can play a much bigger role in fighting climate change because corporations can now rely on them more for reducing their hard-to-reduce emissions through purchasing high-quality credits produced on their land. It also means that a focus on high integrity in carbon projects becomes even more critical in scaling a voluntary carbon market that helps people and the planet. We will be successful in fighting climate change ONLY when the planet feels a difference from our work and when diverse people can benefit from and be part of our work. This is a core tenet of AFF - and we're living it through the Family Forest Carbon Program by equipping family forest owners so their lands can deliver on this climate mitigation promise to benefit both them and the planet. Together, we can tackle the climate crisis and leave the planet better than we found it.

In this module, we explored in depth the fundamental concepts of the circular economy and resource management, as well as the challenges these issues present in various projects. We also delved into strategies for integrating eco-design principles into projects and identifying the key levers for driving sustainable action. This was the final module of the ACT4ECODESIGN course, underscoring our commitment to environmental responsibility and our efforts to slow down climate change and reduce its negative impact on the planet.

As Climate week in New York draws to a close, the challenge now remains to put Climate into Action and driving the Climate agenda and transformation of our Province into a Environmental sustainable one, will only be possible if we work together as Inter-Governmental structures, Private Sector, NPO's and Civil society. As Heritage month is already upon us let's build on the same momentum that our freedom fighters and ancestors have done in preserving Nature, and keep our environment clean. Below are some of the highlights of which has also been adopted within the Department’s strategic framework: 1. Climate finance and investment are key. 2. Engagements with all stakeholders are critical to the Green economy. 3. Climate Agenda is everyone's business as floods, pollution, heatwaves, storms, drought and food insecurity affect us all. 4. Innovation and technological advancement to transform into a green economy e.g. Electric vehicles to reduce carbon emissions. 5. Waste management, landfills, and Buy-back centre's plays a key role to the waste economy and job creation. 6. Measurement Reporting and Verification tools are key to measure our goals. As habitants of our beautiful and diverse country all of us need to think differently in terms of the raw materials we use to manufacture or produce and what the effects of our actions are, on the environment! #ClimateAgenda #Climateweeknyc #GrowingGautengTogether

I rearranged my schedule to join a webinar this morning: "Funding Beyond Value Chain Mitigation - Step by step guidance for organisations" and I am so glad I did! I especially enjoyed Robert Höglund's suggestion for how to think about the types of climate action to fund (picture below). As well, the candid discussion around the "reputational and legal risks" of framing company climate strategy purely around compensating for emissions through low-cost offsets to back up carbon neutral claims. Energy and consensus continues to build for taking a contribution approach to setting climate action strategy. For businesses who have been yearning for some institutional permission or support to back up their desire to support climate innovations like carbon removal technologies and sustainable aviation fuel now, check out the Beyond Value Chain Mitigation guidance at https://lnkd.in/gbkyQiWB

🌍🏙️ NEW RESOURCE: How can cities generate sustainable funding for equitable climate action? 💡📄 In this new publication and fact sheet developed in partnership with members of the Just Transition Fund Coalition, we examine innovative mechanisms available to the City of Minneapolis to combat climate change and address historical inequities: 🏭 Pollution Control Annual Registration (PCAR) 🔌 Utility Franchise Fees By applying a social cost of carbon, these mechanisms could generate over $110 million annually for critical climate investments like: ✅ Community-wide weatherization 🏘️🔧 ✅ Upgrading & electrifying heating/cooling 🌡️🔌  ✅ Expanding clean energy access ☀️🔋 ✅ Workforce development & green jobs 👷💼 The paper provides a roadmap for cities to restructure fees to disincentivize emissions while raising funds for a just energy transition. Crucially, it emphasizes community oversight and accountability to ensure investments benefit those most impacted by climate change. Low-wealth households and businesses are shielded through exemptions and targeted support. While focused on Minneapolis, it offers a replicable framework for cities nationwide to create bold funding solutions at the scale urgently needed to address the climate emergency. 🌎🚨 I'm so proud to have worked on this project on behalf of the Just Transition Coalition alongside my colleague Cherylyn Kelley, with legal research support ⚖ from Daniel Carpenter-Gold and Joey Vossen at the Public Health Law Center and patient and thoughtful guidance from Alice Madden. Thanks to Matt Grimley for crunching the numbers and creating the charts 📊 and to Tori Hong for creating the incredible illustrations to help tell this story. 🎨 Special shout-out to the amazing IMT Comms team - CM Caplinger and Rita Perez - for their beautiful design work that brings the paper to life! ✨ Feast your eyes on the fact sheet & full paper for recommendations on equitable collection, disbursement, and oversight of climate funds ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gvEiwqRk #ClimateSolutions #JustTransition #SustainableCities #CommunityResilience

The SBTi recently expanded companies’ options for tackling Scope 3 emissions. Here’s why I think the new policy is a positive step: SBTi (a group that helps companies set goals for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions) will consider allowing companies to use certificates that track the benefits of climate projects in which they invest, as a way to address their Scope 3 emissions. Scope 3 emissions are the hardest to reduce, because they come from suppliers of parts and materials around the world. While it’s vital that companies curb climate pollution at every step of their supply chain, that complex process takes a lot of time we don’t have. Policies like SBTi’s create space for companies to take meaningful climate action right now. While they work to reduce Scope 3 emissions, they can use high-integrity certificates or carbon credits to address the pollution they can’t yet prevent. A flexible approach like this can benefit communities, conserve nature, and foster cleaner industry by unlocking desperately needed climate finance; as long as we don’t let companies off the hook for cleaning up their supply chain. Read my full take: https://lnkd.in/eTX3A-U7

JUST PUBLISHED: Our “Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities” Policy Focus Report (written by Joe Schilling, Catherine Tumber, and Gabi Velasco) has been adapted into a four-page Policy Brief. The brief provides actionable recommendations for how cities can drive a lower-carbon future while confronting the entwined challenges of averting climate disaster, righting longstanding environmental injustices, and creating green economies. Read it now: https://lnkd.in/gTQbcMRN

The Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy released a new report at #ClimateWeekNYC showing that comprehensive, high-ambition climate action across all levels of government and all sectors of society and the economy can cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 65% by 2035, compared to 2005 levels. Read more about this report: https://go.umd.edu/1s3y

We can’t surrender in the fight to protect ourselves from climate change, limit life-threatening pollution, and make investments to build a clean and sustainable future.  Despite Trump’s election, Environmental Defense Fund will not waver in our work for progress. We will fight extreme agendas with everything we've got. Because we believe there’s still a path to a stronger, brighter future with affordable and reliable clean energy, good-paying jobs in clean manufacturing and healthier, more resilient communities. https://lnkd.in/es7MznrN