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The Conversation: Organized crime is a top driver of global deforestation – along with beef, soy, palm oil and wood products
Every year the world loses an estimated 25 million acres (10 million hectares) of forest, an area larger than the state of Indiana. Nearly all of it is in the tropics.
Nature4Climate: We Know What Indigenous and Local Communities Can Do for Forests. Here’s What Climate Finance Can Do for Them.
World leaders in Glasgow are recognizing the contributions of Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) in safeguarding forests and biodiversity and pledging at least $1.7 billion in additional funding for these communities. But climate finance systems are not set up to work for them, and no clear path exists for private investment in high-integrity community-based […]
Mongbay: New global partnership aims to remove barriers to Indigenous climate finance
At COP26, a new international coalition of organizations and investors, the Peoples Forest Partnership, announced plans to mobilize US $20 billion per year by 2030 directly to Indigenous forest conservation projects
El Salto: Stephen Donofrio: “Salvar el planeta debería incentivar a los gobiernos a hacer mucho más”
El veterano activista Stephen Donofrio participa en la Cumbre del Clima (COP26) representando a la iniciativa ambiental Ecosystem Marketplace (EM). Advierte que “por mucho que se haga a nivel individual, el compromiso político es fundamental”.
South China Morning Post: Forestry-backed carbon credit trading faces hurdles in Asia despite COP26 pledge by global leaders to halt deforestation, says WWF-Hong Kong
Climate Impact X, Singapore’s voluntary carbon exchange, announced on November 1 that it had completed a pilot auction of 170,000 carbon credits, generated from eight forest conservation and restoration projects in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America.
NBC: What are carbon credits? How fighting climate change became a billion-dollar industry
Companies seeking to offset their greenhouse gas emissions have turned to carbon credits, worrying some environmentalists who say they are doing little to slow climate change.
Innovation Forum: The rise and rise of the voluntary carbon markets
Stephen Donofrio, director of Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace project, and co-author of the State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2021 report, explains to Ian Welsh why the carbon markets are set to exceed $1bn in 2021. He says why he thinks they will continue to grow as companies voluntarily take action to decarbonise their operations […]
El Peruano: Reforestar para prevenir desastres
Muestra Naturaleza que Cuida busca priorizar la recuperación de bosques, pastizales, andenes y amunas.
IISD: Is a Gigaton of Emission Reductions from Forests Possible by 2025?
Achieving the full mitigation and biodiversity potential of forests suffers from a “chicken and egg” problem. On the one hand, companies, enterprises and business corporations need confidence in the supply of high-integrity REDD+ credits will be available at scale. On the other, forest country governments need a signal that sufficient international funding will materialize to […]
Nikkei Asia: Vietnam’s rubber industry faces pressure to meet global standards
Foreign buyers say they are willing to pay for transparency and sustainability
