Nature-Based Solutions: Affordable and Effective 🌱
At COP29, nature-based solutions take center stage. Affordable, effective, and key to climate action, they demand global attention now.
Spotlight
Kenya Agroforestry Project Promises Transparency 🇰🇪
Kenya's GFCCA drives regenerative agriculture near Lake Victoria, empowering farmers with agroforestry and carbon credits for climate resilience.
Empowering Women to Restore Africa’s Degraded Lands 🌍♀️
“I also look forward to engaging and learning from other Indigenous women globally on their restoration approaches and solutions to shared challenges.”
New Open-Source Global Planted Forest Dataset🌲📊
The new Global Planted Forest Dataset maps 447 tree species in 91 countries. Key for Lacey Act, illegal logging, and forest nerds everywhere!
UNEP State of Finance for Nature 2023 🇺🇳
The UNEP's 2023 report urges tripling funding for nature-based solutions to meet sustainable finance targets under the Rio Conventions.
Data Shows Indonesian Social Forestry Excludes Women 📊🌳
Indonesia's social forestry policies aim for inclusivity, yet women remain underrepresented in management, deepening inequalities.
Data Looks at ESG Goals for Companies 0️⃣
Analysis of SBTi’s progress data, which includes all companies that had set a target by 2022 for which SBTi has emissions data, reveals that companies are cutting their emissions by a median annual rate of 5.4%.
Open Geospatial Data Slashes Forestry Costs by 60% 🛰️💸
Monocultures still dominate Nordic forestry—67% of seedlings in Finland are Norway spruce.
Mass Data Haul Reveals Life after Wildfire
There are several ways frequent fire before the megafires could allow species to increase.
Governments Must Tackle Climate Disinformation, Experts Urge
Therefore, more proactive, clear, accurate and effective communication efforts are consistently and repeatedly needed.
How Rethinking ‘What Is a Forest’ Can Result in More Effective Conservation
When the policy community asks, “is deforestation going up or down?” an acceptable answer can no longer be, “it depends."
‘Give Trees a Hand’ — Ad Agencies Line Up to Sell Sketchy Climate Solutions
DeSmog revealed that the government’s pledge of £22 billion in subsidies for carbon capture projects followed a steep rise in lobbying efforts by major fossil fuel companies.