Opinion / #nature-based solutions
Policy & Finance
Businesses can’t build resilience without nature strategies
Businesses must develop nature strategies and implement them swiftly to mitigate risks and build resilience in a changing world.
With cities at the frontline of climate resilience, COP30 is a key opportunity to scale-up urban finance.
Policy & Finance
Central banks must stem the nature crisis
Even though the global economy depends on a stable climate and reliable ecosystem services, businesses and financial institutions are not required or incentivised to invest in nature. Central banks and supervisors could change that trajectory simply by fulfilling their financial-stability mandate.
Carbon & Climate
Meltdown at the top of the world
The UN has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation as climate change speeds up ice loss not only in the Arctic and Antarctica, but in Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayas, which is warming three times the global average rate.
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12 January 2025
Policy & Finance
It’s time for a UN ‘universal declaration on nature’
20 December 2024
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Policy & Finance
Investments in nature will decide our future
14 October 2024
Carbon & Climate
Nature conservation is a public good, not a market
3 September 2024
Carbon & Climate
Three ways Pacific nations are adapting to climate change
29 January 2024
8 December 2023
Policy & Finance
Nature as infrastructure
30 October 2023
Carbon & Climate
The carbon-offset market’s broken promises
24 October 2023
Carbon & Climate
Climate solutions are already in our nature
22 September 2023
15 May 2023
10 April 2023
Carbon & Climate
In defence of nature-based carbon markets
21 March 2023
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6 March 2023
Policy & Finance
Obsolete law is costing Indonesian wildlife
15 December 2022
Carbon & Climate
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