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UNDP Calls for Scaling Debt-for-Development Swaps to Align Fiscal Relief with Nature Protection

UNDP Calls for Scaling Debt-for-Development Swaps to Align Fiscal Relief with Nature Protection

يوليو 1, 2025 لا توجد تعليقات

Key Impact Points: Debt Relief Meets Biodiversity Protection At a key side-event during the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Policy Director Marcos Neto emphasized the urgency of aligning debt relief with climate and biodiversity action. “In 2023, developing economies spent a record

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ECB Adds Nature Loss Indicator to Climate Disclosures as Portfolio Emissions Decline

ECB Adds Nature Loss Indicator to Climate Disclosures as Portfolio Emissions Decline

يونيو 20, 2025 لا توجد تعليقات

Key Impact Points: ECB Introduces Nature Exposure Metric in Climate Reporting The European Central Bank (ECB) has released its third climate-related financial disclosure, introducing a new indicator that evaluates how ECB and Eurosystem corporate portfolios depend on or impact nature. This marks a significant step in aligning climate and biodiversity

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UK Proposes Major Expansion of Bottom Trawling Ban to Safeguard Marine Protected Areas

UK Proposes Major Expansion of Bottom Trawling Ban to Safeguard Marine Protected Areas

يونيو 20, 2025 لا توجد تعليقات

Key Impact Points: Government Moves to Curb Destructive Fishing Practices The UK government has proposed new measures to ban bottom trawling—a fishing method that drags heavy nets along the seabed—in 41 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), covering approximately 30,000 square kilometers of English waters. The initiative is designed to protect fragile

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Scaling investment for Africa’s sustainable 'blue economy' - Marisa Drew

Scaling Investment for Africa’s Sustainable ‘Blue Economy’ – Marisa Drew

يونيو 16, 2025 لا توجد تعليقات

by Marisa Drew (chief sustainability officer at Standard Chartered) Despite carrying 80% of the world’s trade, absorbing 30% of its carbon-dioxide emissions and providing food security for almost 3 billion people, the global “blue economy” (oceans and waterways) is suffering from acute underinvestment, and nowhere more so than in Africa.

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ERS Acquires Equitable Earth to Scale Indigenous-Led Forest Carbon Standard

ERS Acquires Equitable Earth to Scale Indigenous-Led Forest Carbon Standard

يونيو 16, 2025 لا توجد تعليقات

Key Impact Points: ERS Acquires Indigenous-Focused Forest Carbon Standard ERS, an ICVCM-approved carbon standard focused on nature-based solutions, has acquired Equitable Earth, a forest carbon standard co-developed by Indigenous leaders, community stakeholders, and technical experts. The move marks a significant shift in voluntary carbon markets toward prioritizing high-integrity, community-rooted REDD+

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Unlocking bioeconomy finance: Connecting capital markets and forest conservation in the Amazon

UNEP FI Backs Living Amazon Mechanism to Channel Private Capital into Biodiversity, Bioeconomy Solutions

يونيو 12, 2025 لا توجد تعليقات

Key Impact Points: Connecting Capital Markets with Conservation As the world prepares for COP30—the “COP of Solutions”—one urgent challenge remains: how to finance global goals for nature and biodiversity. Meeting the Rio Conventions’ targets will require more than public funding; it will demand bold private sector investment and partnerships. The

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SWEN CP launches the second vintage of its impact ocean fund Download Accueil / News / SWEN CP launches the second vintage of its impact ocean fund

SWEN Capital Partners Launches €300 Million Fund for Ocean Biodiversity, World’s Largest Impact Venture Fund of Its Kind

يونيو 12, 2025 لا توجد تعليقات

Key Impact Points: SWEN Capital Partners Scales Ocean Impact Strategy with Second Blue Ocean Fund SWEN Capital Partners has raised €160 million in the first close of SWEN Blue Ocean 2, the world’s largest ocean-focused impact venture fund. With a €300 million target, the fund will back startups advancing technologies

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Fugro to Lead Development of Safety Standards for Ocean-Based Carbon Removal

Fugro to Lead Development of Safety Standards for Ocean-Based Carbon Removal

يونيو 12, 2025 لا توجد تعليقات

Key Impact Points: Fugro to Develop First-Ever mCDR Environmental Impact Standards Fugro has been tapped by Ocean Visions to lead the development of a standardized Environmental Impact Assessment Framework for marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) technologies—advancing a critical area of climate innovation focused on the ocean’s capacity to store carbon.

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