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...
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.
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...
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.
