Staking the State of Nature, With Data and Urgency

In December 2022 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) advocated urgency for an expedited 2025 timeline to more than double finance flows in nature-based solutions (NbS) to limit climate change to below 1.5°C, halt biodiversity loss, and achieve land degradation neutrality. UNEP published the second edition of its “State of...
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Uncommons Urgency on Water

Source: The Guardian
This March 17 story delves into a report projecting a 40% shortfall in freshwater supply before 2030.
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Commentary

Lord, Make Me Net Zero...

Source: The Conversation
Three British scholars summarize their paper, which sifts through over 20 nations' decarbonization plans and finds a burn line of reliance on carbon offsetting and burial.
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Is it Nature or Nurture?

Source: POLITICO
This February 21 roundup tells you how power-watchers are watching carbon removal.
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Commentary

You're the Next Contestant

Source: The Independent
This February 7 op/ed from an official in Gabon sets forth that country's carbon-pricing strategy.
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A Path Through the Trees

Source: Mongabay
This February 9 report from a no-nonsense source introduces a coalition report guiding investors toward robust forest carbon credits.
Elizabeth Schuster, Environmental Economist, Sustainable Economies Consulting

Elizabeth Schuster, Environmental Economist, Sustainable Economies Consulting

Partners Unite to Share Lessons Around Regenerative Agriculture, Forestry, and Conservation

Leigh Whelpton
The Network (CFN) convened partners for their 10th CFN Roundtable, hosted in Durham, NC on November 2-3, 2022. The roundtable brought together nearly 70 practitioners representing nonprofit organizations, foundations, private sector firms, governmental agencies, and universities. The event was organized around nine different panels on a variety of...

Conservation Finance Learning Lab Recap, Part Two: Harvesting a Bumper Crop of Federal Funding

Grace Cajski
The available level of funding does not have recent precedent,” said Leigh Whelpton, Executive Director of the Network. This windfall of potential funding is certainly beneficial to practitioners, who often rely on initial government support to attract private investors.
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Conservation Finance Learning Lab Recap, Part One: What's a Carbon Market?

Katie Michels
In this session, panelists from a variety of organizations described their engagement in carbon markets. Spencer Meyer, Head of Science at the carbon-exchange company NCX, moderated a Zoom panel of professionals from not-for-profits, for-profits, carbon project developers, carbon project sellers, and more. Steph Harris, Director of Carbon Markets at carbon...