NEW YORK — October 16, 2025 — A new collaboration between Carbon Direct and JPMorgan Chase is aiming to redefine how the voluntary carbon market values nature. The two organizations have released Optimizing for Biodiversity with Nature-Based Projects in the Voluntary Carbon Market: Principles for Pursuing Dual Outcomes, a data-driven
WASHINGTON — The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a major new initiative to bridge the divide between global climate and biodiversity goals. The Net-Zero Nature-Positive Accelerator Integrated Programme, unveiled alongside the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB),
The Ocean Elders, a collective of global visionaries dedicated to protecting the ocean and its wildlife, have announced the addition of two remarkable women to their ranks: Kristine Tompkins, President and Co-Founder of Tompkins Conservation, and Lavinia Currier, filmmaker, philanthropist, and environmental activist. Together, they bring decades of leadership in
Panama City, Panama — Panama has once again placed itself at the forefront of global environmental leadership, announcing the Nature Summit Series 2025—a bold new platform designed to align with all three United Nations environmental conventions born from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
A sweeping new United Nations–backed assessment has found that the world is moving sharply off course in efforts to halt deforestation, with forest loss surging across the tropics and accelerating the breakdown of ecosystems essential for global stability. The 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment, released this week ahead of the UN
Global Report Confirms Planetary Threshold Crossed In a landmark assessment released this week, an international coalition of scientists declared that the world’s coral reefs have officially crossed a climate tipping point—becoming the first major Earth system to enter irreversible decline. The findings, published in the Global Tipping Points Report 2025,
Lima, Peru — The ministers of environment from across Latin America and the Caribbean have chosen Panama’s Minister of Environment, Juan Carlos Navarro, as the new President of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean for the 2025–2027 term. The decision, made by consensus during
United Nations Headquarters, New York – At the 2025 SDG Leaders Luncheon, convened on the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, Lord Fatafehi Fakafanua, Speaker of Parliament for the Kingdom of Tonga and Vice Chairman of Global Resilience Partners, delivered a powerful call to action centered
When heads of state and negotiators arrive in Belém, Brazil, this November for COP30, the stakes will be unmistakably high. Finance ministers and central bankers will be watching as closely as climate diplomats: what is hammered out in the Amazon will set the tone for how trillions in capital are
The world’s oceans turned a page in history yesterday. After years of painstaking negotiations and false starts, the High Seas Treaty was finally ratified, crossing the threshold of 60 nations and ensuring its entry into force early next year. For the first time, the two-thirds of the ocean that lies
