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What is carbon neutrality?

What’s the difference between ‘carbon neutral’ and ‘climate neutral’? Do they mean the same thing as ‘net zero’? Let us explain.

 

Best of Landscape News 2022: Finance and technology

Our pick of this year’s top stories

 
A Native American member of the Yurok Peoples wraps up his fishing on the Klamath River in the U.S. Beau Finley, Flickr

The World Cup’s climate impact, a win for Native Americans and the start of COP15

In this news roundup: Qatar greenwashes World Cup, air pollution causing 1 million stillbirths a year, and the EU subsidizes carbon emissions

 
Regenerative agriculture can help preserve top soil, biodiversity and water resources. Ollivier Girard, CIFOR

Carbon credits can help incentivize farmers to go ‘regenerative’

Learnings from part one of a carbon finance learning program: Can carbon credits pave the way to sustainable agriculture?

 
A view of forests in Maluku, Indonesia, a country that joined more than 120 others at COP26 in pledging to halt deforestation by 2030, though internal concerns over conflicts with national development remain. Aris Sanjaya, CIFOR

What COP26 breakthroughs on forests, finance and carbon markets mean for nature

World Agroforestry head Tony Simons weighs in on proceedings so far

 

Why are carbon markets so critical right now?

GLF Live with Paul Burgers

 
Festival Atsá en la TI Poyanawa. Foto: Alessandra Melo.

Indigenous Land in the Brazilian Amazon is a brake on deforestation and may start generating carbon credits

A study shows that the Indigenous Poyanawa people are good stewards of their land - and can benefit from its carbon credits.

 
The estuary at the mouth of the Sinú River, which feeds into the Bay of Cispata. Alex M C, Wikimedia Commons

The first mangrove forest with full carbon calculation enters the carbon market

“Blue” carbon credits come bluest in Colombia’s Cispata mangroves, one of the most well-preserved mangrove forests in the Caribbean.

 
The Sinai Peninsula, which connects African and Asia, has a hot desert climate. nanebbb, Unsplash

Wildlife rangers go virtual, carbon dioxide’s new high and a ‘green wall’ for Sinai

In the news: Brazil military surrenders to loggers, banks lend trillions to fossil fuels and how to make greener cryptocurrency investments

 
A lion in Kenya. Sergey Pesterev, Unsplash

Carbon-negative diamonds, lion-saving carbon markets, and – is the Amazon a GHG emitter?

China sets new climate targets, wildfire smoke is far deadlier than car exhaust and why the Amazon is now warming the planet

 
Stan Bonnar, Flickr

Zombie fires, regenerative travel and an app to prevent pandemics

Zombie fires burn through the Arctic, Brazil turns a blind eye to Amazon deforestation, and SUVs threaten the climate more than ever.

 
Jessica Lucia, Flickr

Best of Landscape News 2019: Finance

2019's top Landscape News stories on sustainable finance, from explainers and glossaries to conversations with some of the world’s largest fund managers.

 
Activists outside the main plenary hall at COP 25 before being made to leave the venue. Friends of the Earth International, Flickr

In a day of “unprecedented” demonstrations, youth and Indigenous activism align with concerns over Article 6

The divide between youth and Indigenous activists' main concerns and potential outcomes of Article 6 in the climate negotiations grows wider.

 
Demonstrators protest against Article 6 and its potential effects on Indigenous communities. Friends of the Earth International, Flickr

Would a decision on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement do more harm than good?

Halfway through COP 25 in Madrid, climate policy analyst Steve Leonard gives his views on the negotiations happening around Article 6 and carbon markets.

 
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Will the “missing piece” of the Paris Agreement be decided this week?

At COP 25, climate finance expert Jeff Swartz explains why countries are struggling to negotiate Article 6 on carbon markets.

 

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