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Sustainable finance

Sustainable finance

Trees in Namibia's Sossusvlei National Park, where the Global Environment Facility has supported projects to conserve biodiversity and build climate resiliency. Global Environment Facility

One of the largest environmental investors just received USD 5.25 billion. How will it be spent?

Q&A with Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and chairperson of the Global Environment Facility, on its newly replenished funds.

 
In current carbon markets, one carbon credit is typically issued for each metric ton of carbon dioxide kept from being emitted, which is about the amount of carbon dioxide a tree will absorb in 40 years. Hamish John Appleby, IWMI

Can carbon markets supercharge nature-based solutions to climate change?

Sustainable finance forum discusses realities and regulations of funding nature-based solutions to climate change.

 
Voluntary carbon markets reached a record value of USD 1 billion in 2021. Micheile Visual Stories, Unsplash

From carbon markets to private sector power, what’s happening with sustainable finance?

At COP26, sustainable finance experts Nathalie Roth and Moritz von Unger share insights on carbon markets, new mechanisms and more.

 
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Looking to venture into sustainable finance? This digital ‘toolkit’ will help guide

The new Take Action toolkit makes investment opportunities easily navigable for individuals and organizations looking to sustainably invest.

 
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Best of Landscape News 2021: Finance

Our pick of this year’s top finance stories from Landscape News.

 
Ecosystem ecologist Tom Crowther at COP26 in Glasgow. Gabrielle Lipton, Global Landscapes Forum

Tom Crowther on new platform Restor and biodiversity credits

Ecologist Tom Crowther explains why restoration must be coupled with technology and the biodiversity gap of carbon credits.

 
An acacia sapling being planted in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

AFR100 initiative gets a boost as USD 2 billion funding goal before next COP set

This investment in AFR100 could restore 20 million hectares of land by 2026, bringing benefits worth USD 135 billion to 40 million people

 
Demonstrations took place throughout Scotland and around the world alongside COP26. Tim Dennell, Flickr

GLF Climate by the numbers

Get an overview of GLF Climate, the Global Landscapes Forum's three-day event alongside COP26.

 
A dam in the U.S. Dan Meyers, Unsplash

“The climate crisis knows no borders.”

Check out our pick of quotes from GLF Climate, which ran alongside the COP26 event in Glasgow.

 
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

 
Forests and agriculture make up over 30 percent of the solution to climate change – but they receive less than 3 percent of climate financing. Ibrahim Rifath, Unsplash

Finance: a GLF Climate reading list

Enjoy this selection of Landscape News articles about sustainable finance before GLF Climate's finance-focused sessions.

 
A farmer in an agroforested bolaina (West Indian elm) tree plantation in Peru. Juan Carlos Huayllapuma, CIFOR

New ‘stewardship economy’ concept promises environmentally sustainable market systems

'Stewardship economy' proposes model for financial mechanisms to ensure producers are stewards of nature.

 
Os povos indígenas detêm 35% do Bioma Amazônia e vêm usando práticas sustentáveis de uso da terra há séculos. Apib Comunicação, Flickr

Sounding off strategies to use the Amazon sustainably

Day 2 of GLF Amazonia looks at links between supply chains and livelihoods of Amazonian peoples

 
The Amazon in Ecuador, which entered a USD 50 million financial partnership in 2018 for the protection of 13.6 million of its hectares. NORAD

The key to financing the Amazon biome’s future survival? Creativity

The key to financing the Amazon biome’s future survival? Creativity, says Leonardo Letelier, Amazon finance expert and founder of SITAWI.

 
Sámara, Costa Rica

With USD 2.3 trillion to spend, this is how public development banks can help biodiversity

Public development banks can play a vital role in promoting greater investment in biodiversity and nature-based solutions.

 
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