Doubling Down on Nature
The State of Investment in Nature-based Solutions for Water Security, 2025
By Mia Smith, Gena Gammie, Jinsui Song, Brooke Atwell, Daniel Shemie, Michael Bennett, Jose Cuadros Adriazola, Inca Juliet Joubert, and Paola TanguyWater is everywhere in our lives: not just in what we drink or use to grow food, but in data centers, cooling systems, energy grids, sanitation, and manufacturing. It powers our economies and our everyday routines. And in much of the world, water is also the face of climate change. We see it in intensifying[…]
2025 State of the Voluntary Carbon Market
Meeting the Moment: Renewing Trust in Carbon Finance
By Alex ProctonOver the 20-year history of Ecosystem Marketplace (EM), we have seen carbon markets grow from a nascent idea into a mechanism with the potential to seriously mitigate global warming. Our annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Market (SOVCM) provides a comprehensive overview of this global supply and demand of voluntary carbon credits. In this year’s […]
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Estado do Mercado Voluntário de Carbono em 2025
Respondendo ao Momento: Renovando a Confiança no Financiamento do Carbono
By Alex Procton
China’s Tropical Deforestation and Emissions Footprint From Its Agricultural and Timber Imports
By The Forest Policy, Trade, and Finance InitiativeChina’s strong domestic forest conservation policies have ensured its national forests are making a major contribution to global afforestation and reforestation efforts, as well as internal climate goals. However, there has been no official mention of emissions and deforestation linked to China’s timber and agricultural imports (known as “embedded emissions”). This is despite China being […]
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Nature’s investment frontier
Practical paths forward for biodiversity markets and finance
By Ricardo Bayon, Charles Bedford, Genevieve Bennett, Adam Davis, Ben Guillon, Katherine Hamilton, Michael Jenkins, Dr. Timothy Male, Martine Maron, Julia McCarthy, Yuejia Peng, Fabien Quétier, Mariana Sarmiento, Ryan Sarsfield, David Tepper, and Amrei von HaseBiodiversity-based investment themes are suddenly in the spotlight, after years of feeling like a bit of an understudy to the carbon market. Given a ballooning finance gap for nature, and the obvious materiality of nature risk to business, there is renewed interest in economic instruments that can drive private investment toward interventions to avert biodiversity […]
Timber, Sanctions, and Conflict: Myanmar’s Forest Sector Since the Coup
By The Forest Policy, Trade, and Finance InitiativeWithin a few months of the February 2021 coup d’état against the newly re-elected Union Government of Myanmar (UGoM), the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Switzerland, and Canada imposed targeted sanctions on Myanmar’s military leadership and associated businesses. These sanctions were further expanded over the years to include measures against the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) […]
Serie de Guías de infraestructura natural para la gestión del riesgo de desastres
Guías para elaborar estudios definitivos de infraestructura natural (IN) con enfoque de gestión del riesgo de desastres (GRD)
El Perú es un país megadiverso y altamente vulnerable al cambio climático, por lo que debe integrarse a su visión de desarrollo un enfoque de Reducción del Riesgos de Desastres de origen hidrometeorológico.Esto implica articular políticas y compromisos internacionales de Gestión del Riesgos de Desastres (GRD), fortaleciendo la resiliencia frente al cambio climático mediante acciones […]
Vietnam Timber Legality Risk Dashboard
By Forest TrendsOn September 1, 2020, the Government of Vietnam (GoV) issued Decree 102/2020/ND-CP, enacting Vietnam’s Timber Legality Assurance System (VNTLAS) as part of its commitments under the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), a bilateral trade agreement with the European Union. One of the main objectives of the VNTLAS Decree has […]
Resultados del taller: Liderazgo e innovación financiera para la resiliencia hídrica de La Paz
By Gena Gammie, Alejandra Campos y Mia SmithLa región de La Paz enfrenta uno de los mayores desafíos hídricos en México. El clima árido y su crecimiento poblacional han provocado la sobreexplotación de los acuíferos, lo que propicia la intrusión de agua salada. Asimismo, cuando ocurren tormentas tropicales y huracanes, la región sufre intensas inundaciones, especialmente en las zonas urbanas. Frente a […]
Payments from Liberia’s Industrial Forestry Sector to the National Benefits Sharing Trust
By Arthur BlundellLiberia’s legal framework requires that the communities most affected by industrial logging should also share in the benefits. Accordingly, the Government of Liberia (GoL) collects land-rental fees from industrial logging operations with the intent to redistribute some to these communities. This report finds that the GoL owes nearly US$25 million to communities impacted by industrial […]
Guía Metodológica para el Monitoreo de Técnicas de Siembra y Cosecha de Agua
- amunas, qochas y zanjas de infiltración
By NIWS, SUNASSLa Guía responde a la necesidad urgente de generar conocimientos y capacidades locales para abordar los desafíos que representan la crisis climática y la inseguridad hídrica. Este documento es una herramienta esencial para profesionales, personal técnico, entidades implementadoras, tomadoras y tomadores de decisión que guardan un compromiso con la gestión sostenible del agua en la[…]