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This U.N. Climate Summit is the most anticipated since Paris six years ago. The private sector is playing a heightened role in driving the momentum for shaping the agenda and likely...

Major funding to finance forest conservation projects is set to be announced at the UN climate summit next week. But some environmentalists contend the LEAF program could exclude the Indigenous people who have long protected the forests that the initiative aims to save.

The Paris Agreement established a new framework for international carbon markets to replace the Kyoto Protocol markets. Under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement parties can pursue bilateral or regional cooperative approaches to meet their NDCs.

Forests are being failed seven years after the New York pact to protect them, despite their enormous potential.

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Countries are spending only a fraction of the nearly $500 billion needed each year to stop tree loss and restore forests worldwide to help meet climate and nature goals, researchers warned on Tuesday.

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If given the opportunity and support, smallholder farmers can be stewards of the environment Research by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI) showed 30 of the 84 adjudged high-impact global food, drink and agriculture companies have set net zero carbon targets.   Everyday, more follow their lead. While this is encouraging, activist organisations are concerned the 2050 net zero deadline provides time for laggards to keep their heads in the sand. Yet if concrete net zero actions aren’t ...

Nature-based solutions to tackle the climate crisis, specifically through the global carbon market, are attracting major public and private investment. Yet, according to new research by the NGO Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and Canada’s McGill University, most tropical forested countries looking to benefit from these markets still need to define the rights of Indigenous […]

Restoration initiatives hold the potential to deliver nearly 10% of the mitigation needed to attain the 1.5C climate target, and nature’s contribution to the global economy is worth more than $125 trillion annually.