Reporting on the status and trends of the world’s forest resources just got easier with a new online tool linked to Google Earth Engine launched this week by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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Using a combination of public and private funding, Rabobank and UN Environment have created a new billion dollar facility to finance sustainable, climate smart agriculture.
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Businesses can realize many benefits by investing in restoration of forests, rivers and freshwater, new research finds. Corporations increasingly recognize that working in landscape partnerships can help them address critical issues beyond their immediate supply chains.
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Globally, 1.2 billion people depend on agroforestry farming systems, especially in developing countries, the World Bank calculates. Yet, trees on farms are not even considered in the greenhouse gas accounting framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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China, with the most air polluted cities in the world now has the world’s largest reforestation program. Wolfgang Frey of the Frey Group writes about the importance of reforestation projects in China.
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, and European Council President Donald Tusk will promote trade in legally produced timber between the European Union and Indonesia through the start of the first Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licensing plan.
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Investing in forestry means investing not only in trees but in people and in sustainable development, delegates to the 14th World Forestry Congress in Durban affirmed last week.
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This month’s spotlight deals shine a light on the forestry sector. At the moment there are over thirty forestry deals listed on the Maximpact Eco platform and many of these are seeing a high degree of interest from impact investors.
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Pressures on our natural resources are getting bigger—and the consequences of depleting them are getting clearer—but a global movement for sustainability is now encouraging an explosion in the kind of responsible resource businesses that belong in our impact portfolios.
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Alexander Watson, founder of OpenForests shares his tips on how to engage impact investors in sustainable forestry and agroforestry investment projects.
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In this guest blog for sustainable forestry consultants OpenForests, Maximpact writer Marta Maretich gives pointers on how to find impact finance for any sustainable business model.
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