Key Impact Points: Largest UK Forestry Fund Targets Climate and Financial Returns Gresham House has announced the final close of Forest Fund VI LP at £375 million / $500 million, making it both the firm’s largest forestry raise and what is believed to be the biggest forestry fundraise in UK
Key Impact Points: UNOC 3 Targets Ocean Crisis with Urgent Action The United Nations will host its third Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) from June 9–13 in Nice, France, aiming to respond to what organizers are calling an ecological emergency. “Our planet’s life support system is in a state of emergency,”
Key Impact Points: UNDP and Japan Launch ASEAN Blue Carbon Finance Project to Scale Climate Action in Southeast Asia The ASEAN, Government of Japan, and UNDP officially launched the ASEAN Blue Carbon and Finance Profiling (ABCF) Project in Jakarta, marking a strategic step forward in managing blue carbon ecosystems across
Key Impact Points Mainland China’s First Commodity Exchanges Join UN SSE At the 2025 Shanghai Derivatives Market Forum, Tian Xiangyang, Chairman of the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE), announced that SHFE and the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE) have signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (UN SSE) initiative—marking
Key Impact Points: Microsoft Signs Multi-Year Deal for Nature-Based Carbon Credits Climate Asset Management (CAM) has finalized a long-term carbon credit offtake agreement with Microsoft, securing the delivery of up to 700,000 nature-based removal credits by 2035. The credits will come from CAM’s first U.S. forestry asset in Washington’s Olympic
Key Impact Points: Panama City, May 22, 2025 — On the third day of the Nature Summit in Panama City, Environment Minister Juan Carlos Navarro took center stage at the international discussion “Panama’s Journey from Vision to Action in Nature Financing.” The session, focused on Panama’s concrete steps in implementing
Leaders from across the globe convened in Panama City, Panama, for the 2025 Nature Summit, a milestone event hosted at the iconic BioMuseo. With its sweeping views of the Panama Canal and its bold, nature-inspired architecture, the BioMuseo set the tone for a forward-looking conversation on climate solutions. This year’s
The Blue Economy and Green Economy are the main topics at Nature Summit 2025 in Panama City this week, where the future of sustainable finance is being shaped. A recurring theme in closed-door sessions and public panels alike is the rise of the Blue Economy — and how traditional financial
By Dylan Welch, Chief Correspondent, SDG News At the 2025 Nature Summit in Panama City, held at the iconic BioMuseo, a important conversation emerged about one of the planet’s last frontiers – the ocean floor. As nations and corporations eye deep sea mining as the next big gold rush, environmental
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA – May 21, 2025 Today’s Nature Summit in Panama delivered a clear message: the ocean economy is no longer a niche conversation — it’s a core pillar of global climate strategy. Held at the Biomuseo, the event brought together ministers, business leaders, scientists, and climate advocates for
