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Sustainable finance

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.

 

Taking stock: The past and present of the Luxembourg Green Exchange

In conversation with Julie Becker, the creator of the world’s first sustainability-focused trading platform, the Luxembourg Green Exchange.

 
A farmer harvests rice at Bontomanai village in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tri Saputro, CIFOR

The challenge of achieving land-use transformation at scale

Mobilizing public and private finance for land-use transformation in agriculture in order to achieve climate change goals.

 
Axel Fassio, CIFOR

Investors are mobilized to protect biodiversity, land and climate

Three key events on natural capital investment take place this week in Europe.

 
Acacia trees being planted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

To adapt to climate change are vulnerable countries getting the money they need?

New reports break down what type of finance vulnerable countries are receiving, finding that not enough is going toward adaptive measures.

 
In 2018, more than USD 44 billion was raised from carbon pricing, including carbon taxes, according to the World Bank. Trending Topics 2019, Flickr

A brief explainer on carbon markets

What are carbon markets, and how do they work? This short article explains carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, voluntary markets and more.

 
Old architecture in Luxembourg City, the country's namesake capital. Andreas Wigmostad Bjerkhaug, Flickr

Insights into Luxembourg’s green growth

Luxembourg Ministry of Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development's André Weidenhaupt sees the country’s future with fewer cars and more finance.

 

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