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Sustainable finance

Sustainable finance

Luxembourg, the world's 20th-smallest country, is regarded as a international leader in sustainable finance. Shirota Yuri, Unsplash

Luxembourg launches a strategy to boost sustainable finance

The Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative (LSFI) will promote investment solutions for a global economic transition.

 
Wind Turbines at Texas's Los Vientos wind farm. Ken Rowland, Flickr

Best of Landscape News 2020: Finance

Our pick of this year’s top stories

 
Young mangroves grow in the Triboa Mangrove Conservation Center in the Philippines. Oliver Mercader, Flickr

Reforesting the Earth, one transaction at a time

From crowdfunding to mobile payments, digital technologies prove a formidable weapon for biodiversity in the Philippines.

 
Photo courtesy of Rainforest Alliance.

Crop Certification: Going green unlocks global markets for farmers

The Rainforest Alliance has created a new certification program for products from tropical farms that help conserve the environment

 
The wings of the morhpo butterfly act like prisms, creating their stunning colors. Scientists are trying to mimic the structures to create safe colorants for paints and cosmetics. Rennett Stowe, Flickr

Recycled cars, the butterfly effect and a Biden boost for biodiversity

In this news roundup: Banks harming biodiversity, farms fueling COVID mutations, and why the Pfizer vaccine means little to the Global South

 
Mangrove forests have been reported to buffer areas against various storms - a valuable ecosystem service. Jakub Hałun, Wikimedia Commons

Big insurance urges government and private sectors to invest in protecting biodiversity

One-fifth of all countries risk natural collapse, says a new Swiss RE report. The insurance company states the need to invest in biodiversity

 
A local cocoa producer in Cameroon. Ollivier Girard, CIFOR

Tackling climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity with nature-based solutions

Tackling climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity with nature-based solutions to build resilient landscapes.

 

What are green bonds funding – and not funding?

Paul Chahine, co-author of a report on green bonds from the Luxembourg Green Exchange, discusses in a GLF Live.

 
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.

 
Globally, one in nine people suffers from hunger or malnutrition, according to the 2020 Global Nutrition Report. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

Food security’s large need for small doses of sustainable finance

Access to sustainable finance proves a challenge for scaling up smallholder projects that combine climate goals with achieving food security.

 
The Zambezi Delta in Mozambique, where the Green Climate Fund is supporting projects on food-security for women and ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change.

A decade old, the world’s largest climate fund receives its first pulse-check

Independent evaluation head Jyotsna Puri casts her critical eye on the strengths and weaknesses of the Green Climate Fund, the world's largest climate fund.

 

Nicolas Mackel on the existential nature of sustainable finance

Nicolas Mackel, CEO of Luxembourg for Finance, on how to harmonize European and Chinese financial systems and the role of finance in global warming.

 
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.

 
Taking stock of growth progress of the Afrormosia tree in a forestry project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

Metric gold: Are better measurements the key to boosting sustainable finance?

Accounting for progress and developing a universal language for reporting findings can attract sustainable finance investors, finance experts say.

 
The fourth iteration of the Global Landscapes Forum's finance-focused symposium was held in Luxembourg on 30 November 2019. Pilar Valbuena, GLF

The risks and rewards of mainstreaming sustainable land-use finance

Leaders raise the profile of the sustainable land-use finance sector at the Global Landscapes Forum’s fourth Investment Case Symposium.

 
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