Key Impact Points: EU Lawmakers Vote Down Country Risk Classification in EUDR The European Parliament has voted to reject the EU Deforestation Regulation’s (EUDR) benchmarking system that categorizes countries by deforestation risk, dealing a significant setback to the bloc’s effort to eliminate deforestation-linked products from EU supply chains. The EUDR,
Key Impact Points: Piauí Advances Climate Leadership with Landmark Carbon Agreement The State of Piauí has signed a breakthrough agreement with Silvania, a global natural capital investment platform backed by a USD $500 million commitment, to implement a jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD) program aimed at halting deforestation and fostering sustainable development.
Key Impact Points: Small Islands, Big Impact More than 30 small island developing states (SIDS) are accelerating environmental action through ambitious partnerships with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). These island nations—though among the most vulnerable to climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution—are positioning themselves as global leaders in resilience
Key Impact Points: New Bond Program Targets Amazonia’s Climate and Development Goals The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank have jointly launched a new bond issuance program aimed at attracting private capital for sustainable development in the Amazon region. Grounded in newly released Amazonia Bond Issuance Guidelines, the
Key Impact Points: Scaling Nature Investments and Conservation The World Bank Group (WBG) is advancing sustainable development by integrating nature into economic policy and development planning. In fiscal year 2024, projects in the active portfolio brought approximately 45 million hectares of landscapes and seascapes under enhanced conservation or management. This
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
Originally Published in Le Temps by Marc Palahí, Chief Nature Officer at Lombard Odier, on 16 June 2025 Key takeaways: Following the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 2025), held recently in Nice, one thing is clear – transforming our economy by investing in nature is key to tackling the deep
Key Impact Points: Groundbreaking Guidance for the Insurance Sector As part of London Climate Action Week, the UNEP Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) Working Group for Nature unveiled a foundational report titled Rooted in Risk: Framing nature-related assessments for insurers. This marks the first release in a new series aimed
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
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
