Both markets and forests found their place in the Paris Climate Accord, capping a tumultuous year that saw a new “bottom-up” approach to the climate crisis deliver something that no one hates and many even seem to love. In all this tumult, what were the top carbon market stories of 2015? Here’s your chance to let us know what you think.
Amid the West’s worst drought in recorded history, the U.S. Department of the Interior launched a new center this week that aims to spark impact investments in water infrastructure and better coordination across states. The era of the Hoover Dam is over, clearly, but what exactly the water infrastructure of the future will look like is still an unfolding story.
As promised in Lima in 2014, the REDD Early Movers program officially expanded to Colombia this year, with Germany, Norway, and (soon to join) the UK signing a more than $100 million agreement to pay the tropical forest country for reducing deforestation.
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal is the Global Leader of Climate & Energy at WWF. He has more than three decades of experience in environmental law and policy and served as Minister of the Environment of Peru (2011 to 2016) and President of the Twentieth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change […]
The first full day of the climate talks in Paris included a major announcement when Norway, Germany and the UK jointly pledged $5 billion to reducing deforestation in tropical forest countries over the next five years.
We applaud today’s announcement from the governments of Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom, whose joint commitment provides positive momentum for much-needed climate finance targeted at tropical forests. The pledge shows an intention to provide $5 billion over the six-year period between 2015 and 2020 — around $800 million a year — with the goal of reaching $1 […]
There’s a cacao planting boom throughout the Amazon basin countries, which is usually good news for farmers and for governments, but farmers sometimes clear priceless native forest to establish new cacao plantations. Jacob Olander of Canopy Bridge examines the consequences, and takes stock of solutions.
Nuestro apetito voraz por la carne y la soja está matando a la selva amazónica, pero no tiene por qué ser así. El Amazonas, resulta que produce cientos de plantas comestibles que pueden ser cosechados y sin árboles de cortar, y un creciente movimiento culinario espera aprovechar estos árboles para salvar el bosque. Aquí están […]
Our ravenous appetite for beef and soy is killing the Amazon rainforest, but it doesn’t have to be this way. The Amazon, it turns out, produces hundreds of edible plants that can be harvested without chopping trees, and a growing culinary movement hopes to tap these trees to save the forest. Here are the innovative chefs who could help us save the Amazon by learning to eat it.
The public sector now accounts for most of the money that industrial countries are spending to help forest nations slow climate change by saving forests, but that government money is meant to prime the pump for private-sector finance. A new report shines a light on how that funding is being spent – and what it means for the future of private-sector finance.