This white paper offers guidance to corporate stakeholders, policy-makers, standard-setters and broader ecosystem actors on how to measure progress on reuse models in a consistent way that enables target-setting at scale. It is a culmination of working group member input, reuse metrics testing outcomes and team recommendations. Accelerating the adoption of reuse is an essential...

It was 2016 when Jurandir Jekupe noticed the bees were gone. Their nests were once common in Yvy Porã, the Guarani Mbya village where Jekupe grew up and still lives. But now the uruçu, a species known for its honey, had all but vanished, and sightings of the jataí, a species sacred to the Guarani Mbya, were...

Biodiversity is important to our health, security and economies, but it’s declining rapidly threatening the very foundations of our future. There is a need to raise financing for nature, and biodiversity credits are a crucial tool to channel investments for nature-positive outcomes. The International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits is bringing together stakeholders to drive...

Intensified farming practices to feed a growing population are having severe impacts on the environment. Regenerative agriculture can ease the impact on the planet, and if adopted correctly, could potentially increase yields as one of its many benefits. To implement scalable and efficient regenerative farming practices, systemic transition is needed with three key changes: cross-value...

It’s off the charts: 2023 has been the hottest year on record by a wide margin. Across the world, skyrocketing temperatures fueled climate-induced disasters — leaving communities to grapple with deadly floods, wildfires, droughts and storms. Yet against this backdrop, new research highlighted nature as a powerful climate solution. In the final weeks of the year, Conservation...

Humble seaweed is having a moment. It’s been heralded as a sustainable superfood, a biodegradable replacement for plastic packaging and a feed supplement to cut cows’ methane emissions. Now, new research shows that seaweed forests — such as massive underwater towers of kelp — may play a bigger role in fighting climate change than previously thought. A study by researchers at Conservation...

Protected forests keep significantly more climate-warming carbon out of the atmosphere than unprotected forests, according to a new study. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, illustrates just how important protected areas are in the fight to curb climate change. Like a lot of research about earthly ecosystems, this analysis started in outer space. The researchers,...

There has never been a year like 2023 – with dramatic highs and lows that have made global action on the environment front and center of all our lives. We are now amid a full-blown climate emergency that requires investment in nature protection and renewal. In this time of adversity, the GEF partnership has faced...

UNEP-WCMC’s Chief Impact Officer Matt Jones, Principal Specialist for Nature-based Solutions Valerie Kapos and Principal Technical Specialist for Climate Change Mitigation Lera Miles reflect on this year’s climate summit and celebrate clear acknowledgement of the need for integrated action on the climate and nature crises A significant outcome of this year’s global climate summit, COP28,...

November 28 – It’s rare that environmental terms become buzzwords, but that is what’s happened in recent months to “nature positive”. The phrase is suddenly everywhere, from nature-positive insurance, opens new tab to nature-positive fashion shows and nature-positive cities, opens new tab. Major businesses, including the likes of Salesforce, GSK, Holcim and Unilever, are setting out how they...