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COP29 Recap: From Financial Breakthroughs to Missed Opportunities

The ‘finance’ COP, held in Baku over the past two weeks, has finally drawn to a close – albeit 33 hours (or is it decades?) too late. Tasked with addressing one of the most pressing questions for climate action – how to finance global mitigation and adaptation efforts – the 29th edition of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP29, concluded with an agreement that marks progress, but which fell short of what many were calling for, leaving us with mixed reactions to the ultimate COP outcome.

COP29 Nature Statement calls for ambitious nature finance commitments in the NCQG

A global group of 80 NGOs, business coalitions, companies, Indigenous Peoples organizations and influential individuals has issued an urgent ‘COP29 Nature Statement’ calling for UNFCCC Parties to properly recognize and finance nature’s role in addressing the climate crisis, or risk undermining global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C.

How much is a standing forest worth? New N4C documentary explores the rise of the socio-bioeconomy in Brazil

The socio-bioeconomy market in Brazil and its potential to tackle climate change globally is the topic of a new documentary produced by Nature4Climate and If Not Us Then Who. The film, the last of the ‘Nature in Action series’, stars Brazilian blackberry açaí producers Uasei, an Indigenous Association in Oiapoque (Amazon State of Amapá), as a case study. In just two years, the practice has been securing revenue streams for over 200 families.

Guide for Including Nature in Nationally Determined Contributions

The third five-year cycle of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), due in 2025, represents a crucial opportunity to scale up global emissions reductions and strengthen the resilience of communities and ecosystems by integrating environmental integrity considerations and Nature-based Solutions (NbS) more prominently into NDCs. The second edition of the Nature4Climate coalition’s Guide for Including Nature in NDCs has been developed to assist national policymakers and technical experts involved in the revision and implementation of 2025 NDCs.

The Amazon is not just Brazil’s to protect. The G20 must step up

Ahead of his meeting with President Biden, Carlos A. Nobre, a leading researcher on forests and climate change, published an opinion piece stating that forest protection isn’t Brazil’s burden alone. Over half of Earth’s forests are in just five countries, four of which are G20 members.

G20 could reduce emissions equal to India’s carbon footprint and benefit communities by investing in nature

On the day of the G20 Summit in Brazil, new data launched by Nature4Climate reveals the 20 world’s largest economies could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 3370 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year (MtCO2e) – comparable to India’s total emissions in 2023 – by prioritising nature in their climate strategy plans.

Nature-Based Solutions Commitment Tracker: nearly half of current pledges show no evidence of progress since COP 28

The new update of the Nature4Climate Commitment Tracker reveals that 48% of the joint action commitments to accelerate the implementation of nature-based solutions are stagnant, showing little or no evidence of progress. Of these, 14% have no published evidence of any action or progress in 2024, marking the highest number of paralyzed commitments since the series began.

COP29 Week 1 Wrap-Up: an Article 6 win, Brazil and UK NDCs on the field, yet nature remains on the bench

In the first week of the climate summit, dubbed the ‘Finance COP’, nature’s presence in the negotiations was as scarce as sunlight for those roaming inside the built walls of the Baku ‘Olympic’ Stadium. As decisive as the second of the three Rio Conventions’ Conferences of 2024 is to unlock much-needed finance and implementation of efforts to combat climate change, much has been left for the final run. But the ball is still rolling.

Marina Silva, of Brazil, speaks COP 30 success: ‘Society and science are doing their part. Governments and companies are the ones who need to step up’

Brazil’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, sits down with Nature4Climate to discuss her ambitious vision for COP30. Silva outlines Brazil’s plans to unify the three Rio Conventions and commitments on biodiversity, desertification, and climate change at COP30.

Navigating the Rio Conventions: What’s at Stake for Nature from Cali to Baku and Beyond?

We find ourselves now one week after Cali, the chosen home for the 2024 UNCBD COP, one week to Baku, host of the UNFCCC COP, and one month to Saudi Arabia, site of the UNCCD COP; and the journey ahead seems ever so long. But even as you, navigators of the Rio Conventions, might be feeling a bit out of breath, here are a few reasons to just keep swimming.

What the Heck is REDD+ Anyway?

REDD+ is an important solution to climate change, but it is also one of the most confusing acronyms you’ll come across in the climate space. The Nature4Climate Coalition demystifies the climate movement’s most infamous acronym in a new glossary. Click to read more.”

NbS Policy Tracker 2024

New research from Nature4Climate and Arboretica reveals that while progress has been achieved, the gap between policy commitments and budget allocation for nature, food and climate action remains far too wide. Analysing over 1,300 policies from 190 countries, the fourth edition of the NbS Policy Tracker shows that only one-third (33%) of nature-related policies published since the Paris Agreement have allocated budgets.

Nature tech market nears $2 billion: new report launch

Nature4Climate, Nature Tech Collective, KPMG, Climate Collective and Serena launched the new report Integrating nature tech: A guide for businesses tracking advances in the nature tech market. This new resource includes case studies from major companies like Salesforce, Bank of America, Bloomberg, Foresight, Axa, Volvo, and HSBC. It demonstrates how they are using AI, satellite data, IoT, and other digital tools to reduce costs, mitigate environmental risks, and build nature-positive business models.

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Nature4Climate voices

It is very important to not only be carbon neutral, but also to be nature positive. We must act now.”

Iván Duque Márquez
Former President of Colombia

I think we’ve run out of time. This is the decadal challenge, and those of us alive can begin to change the course and put us back on the right track.”

Christiana Figueres
Former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
and Founding Partner at Global Optimism

My government has pledged to protect this biodiversity—to protect our flora and fauna communities. And for that we have taken up the challenge to plant ten billion trees.”

Imran Khan
Former Prime Minister, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

We must together think but also act differently. As conserving nature is not just a moral issue, but it is also a question of survival.”

Uhuru Kenyatta
Former President of the Republic, Kenya

In the fight against climate change, in our struggle to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, there is simply no viable pathway without protecting the world’s forests.”

Eron Bloomgarden
Executive Director, Emergent

We know that our only chance to have a possibility of liveable environment with functioning life support systems on a stable planet is if we become stewards of both nature and climate, as an integrated whole.”

Johan Rockström
Chief Scientist, Conservation International and Co-Director of the Potsdam Institute

While the loss of nature might often seem far away, it connects all of us, causing disruption, devastation and hardship.”

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity

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