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Opinion / #nature-based solutions

Geothermal_Plant_Farmer_Java_Indonesia

Policy & Finance

Central banks must stem the nature crisis

Even though the global economy depends on a stable climate and reliable ecosystem services, businesses and financial institutions are not required or incentivised to invest in nature. Central banks and supervisors could change that trajectory simply by fulfilling their financial-stability mandate.
Nepal's Melamchi River floods 2021

Carbon & Climate

Meltdown at the top of the world

The UN has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation as climate change speeds up ice loss not only in the Arctic and Antarctica, but in Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayas, which is warming three times the global average rate.
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Policy & Finance

It’s time for a UN ‘universal declaration on nature’

The ‘rights of nature’ is an allied approach, but nature needs something with more and broader teeth, that can elicit a moral and political consensus on the need for nature conservation.
Palau_marine sanctuary_fish

Water

The world needs ocean-based climate solutions

Countries which govern half the world's territorial oceans have yet to integrate ocean-focused solutions into their nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, due for an update by February 2025.

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18 October 2024

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Policy & Finance

Investments in nature will decide our future

14 October 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Nature conservation is a public good, not a market

3 September 2024

Climate_Risk_Galapagos_Pacific_Islands

Carbon & Climate

Three ways Pacific nations are adapting to climate change

29 January 2024

Turtle_Biodiversity

Policy & Finance

Rich countries must compensate the Global South for biodiversity loss

8 December 2023

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Policy & Finance

Nature as infrastructure

30 October 2023

Peru rainforest

Carbon & Climate

The carbon-offset market’s broken promises

24 October 2023

Nature_Positive_Trees

Carbon & Climate

Climate solutions are already in our nature

22 September 2023

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Carbon & Climate

Climate resilience in Southeast Asia: Adapt and mitigate before it’s too late

15 May 2023

Flood_Thailand

Cities

If your city is sinking, why not make it float?

10 April 2023

Brazilian rainforest

Carbon & Climate

In defence of nature-based carbon markets

21 March 2023

Water_Crisis_Somalia

Water

Waking up to the world's water crisis

20 March 2023

Green_Buidling_Sydney

Cities

The urban jungle needs more trees

6 March 2023

Indonesia's laws aren't effectively cracking down on rampant animal trafficking

Policy & Finance

Obsolete law is costing Indonesian wildlife

15 December 2022

Forest_WIldfire

Carbon & Climate

Climate adaptation must be transformational, not just fighting fires

14 November 2022

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Policy & Finance

Time to get serious about climate adaptation. Here's how.

26 October 2022

Men chopping up fallen logs

Carbon & Climate

There are no ‘natural disasters’

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