Today, together with the Amazônia 2030 initiative and Instituto Igarapé, we are proud to announce the publication of the concept note on a Tropical Forests Mechanism (TFM) to provide a framework to attract and deploy conservation finance for the world’s tropical forests. The mechanism is expected to complement the Brazilian government's Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFFF), announced at COP28 UAE, to secure funding to protect rainforests in the Amazon region, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. View the full concept note via this link: https://lnkd.in/eE8T--wV “Tropical forests provide ecosystem services of inestimable value to humanity and are at the same time victims and heroes of climate change. We need an agile and simple global mechanism that mobilises large amounts of resources to protect and restore tropical forests. This is the core of the Tropical Forest Mechanism proposal” – Tasso Azevedo, Former General Director of the Brazilian Forest Service, collaborator of Amazônia 2030. “We know that the ecosystem services the planet provides, on which more than half of the world's GDP depends, are invaluable. Yet, to avoid the tipping point of tropical forests, we need to create financial instruments to promote conservation and restoration. The Mechanism presented here is another tool that, like the TFFF, advances by offering a financial solution that, to cover the opportunity cost of land uses resulting in forest degradation, incentivises the conservation of standing forests and more effectively rewards those who protect them." – Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Instituto Igarapé Co-founder and President. "At a moment when most financial mechanisms for the protection and maintenance of forests are proving to have limited potential for sourcing and deploying capital at scale, the Global Pledge for Tropical Forests provides an alternative approach that could be pursued to avert catastrophic losses of tropical forests worldwide." – Pedro Moura Costa, BVRio Director and Co-founder. #greenfinance #tropicalforests #conservation
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Sustainable #forest & #biodiversity management: First conserving what's left, enables to still have the required natural resources to restore what's been degraded, thereafter. Yet, the incentives to preserve valuable, biodiverse, standing forests are still limited due to multiple reasons. Great to see some proposed financial solutions like this one.
Executive Director, Good Energies | Board Chair, World Resources Institute Brazil | Board, Arapyaú | Board, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
How to support nature finance at scale to guarantee the maintenance and enhancement of tropical forests worldwide? A pertinent and urgent question as intact tropical forests are the most cost-effective, near-term opportunity for climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. To make this happen, Amazônia 2030, with the support of BVRio and Instituto Igarapé, released an outstanding proposal, in the form of a Concept Note, on a Tropical Forests Mechanism (TFM), which is complementary to #Brazil's Federal Government’s Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFFF), which was announced at #COP28, aimed at securing funding to protect tropical rainforests in the equatorial green belt - the Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indomalayan realms. In summary, the three basins (#Amazon, #Congo, and Southeast #Asia) hold most of the world’s 1.2 billion hectares of tropical forests, and it is estimated that annual payments of USD 30 per hectare would provide enough incentives for their protection. The #oil and #gas sector, producing approximately 30 billion barrels a year, could provide most of the funding needed with a USD 1 per barrel contribution. Published ahead of the G20 Finance Ministers’ Meeting, the Concept Note proposes rules and procedures for distributing annual payments among tropical countries and to guide the application of resources within participating countries to maximize the impact in conservation of tropical forests. The TFM focuses on ‘hectares of forests’ rather than ‘tonnes of carbon’ as its primary metric, supporting the provision of environmental services such as carbon storage, biodiversity conservation, climate regulation, water retention, and benefits to forest stewards and inhabitants. Unlike traditional #carbon markets, the approach avoids challenges related to #additionality, #leakage, and #permanence, allowing for an effective conservation effort. Our gratitude to the masterminds behind this compelling proposal, including Tasso Azevedo, Beto Verissimo, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Pedro Moura Costa, Mauricio de Moura Costa, and Beto Mesquita, for their vision and commitment. Let us all work towards a much needed Global Pledge for Tropical Forests, through which all would actively contribute to stop randomly erasing the hard drive of life. This is not a utopian dream or an act of charity, but rather a high-yielding investment into our planetary foundations! 🙏🏾🌎🌳 See full report below, or download in the following link: https://lnkd.in/dFxnc2XA
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When I started in this field everyone was talking about paying for very specific outcomes - tons of carbon, pounds of nutrient removal, etc. That was seen as the better road to results, since demonstrating the efficacy of practice-based payments (i.e., manage a forest/farm in this way, and we'll pay you per hectare) was so difficult. Now it seems like the pendulum is swinging back the other way a bit? I imagine in part enabled by new tech and big data, and also a recognition of why you might not want single-metric-induced tunnel vision. See below the decision to pay by the hectare rather than per ton of carbon for a major new mechanism being proposed for tropical forests. There are some interesting implications to unpack here I think.
Executive Director, Good Energies | Board Chair, World Resources Institute Brazil | Board, Arapyaú | Board, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
How to support nature finance at scale to guarantee the maintenance and enhancement of tropical forests worldwide? A pertinent and urgent question as intact tropical forests are the most cost-effective, near-term opportunity for climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. To make this happen, Amazônia 2030, with the support of BVRio and Instituto Igarapé, released an outstanding proposal, in the form of a Concept Note, on a Tropical Forests Mechanism (TFM), which is complementary to #Brazil's Federal Government’s Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFFF), which was announced at #COP28, aimed at securing funding to protect tropical rainforests in the equatorial green belt - the Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indomalayan realms. In summary, the three basins (#Amazon, #Congo, and Southeast #Asia) hold most of the world’s 1.2 billion hectares of tropical forests, and it is estimated that annual payments of USD 30 per hectare would provide enough incentives for their protection. The #oil and #gas sector, producing approximately 30 billion barrels a year, could provide most of the funding needed with a USD 1 per barrel contribution. Published ahead of the G20 Finance Ministers’ Meeting, the Concept Note proposes rules and procedures for distributing annual payments among tropical countries and to guide the application of resources within participating countries to maximize the impact in conservation of tropical forests. The TFM focuses on ‘hectares of forests’ rather than ‘tonnes of carbon’ as its primary metric, supporting the provision of environmental services such as carbon storage, biodiversity conservation, climate regulation, water retention, and benefits to forest stewards and inhabitants. Unlike traditional #carbon markets, the approach avoids challenges related to #additionality, #leakage, and #permanence, allowing for an effective conservation effort. Our gratitude to the masterminds behind this compelling proposal, including Tasso Azevedo, Beto Verissimo, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Pedro Moura Costa, Mauricio de Moura Costa, and Beto Mesquita, for their vision and commitment. Let us all work towards a much needed Global Pledge for Tropical Forests, through which all would actively contribute to stop randomly erasing the hard drive of life. This is not a utopian dream or an act of charity, but rather a high-yielding investment into our planetary foundations! 🙏🏾🌎🌳 See full report below, or download in the following link: https://lnkd.in/dFxnc2XA
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Have you heard of the term extinction debt? In a new article for 360info Biodiversity Councillor Professor Euan Ritchie explains why we need to fast-track policies and laws that halt current-day habitat destruction. At the moment, Australia is a global deforestation hot spot. Australia clears an area equivalent to the MCG every 90 seconds. As the Australian Government aspire to become nature positive, Australia's landscapes are under increasing pressure from proponents that want to further develop extensive, biodiversity-rich but relatively less modified areas, such as northern Australia, for livestock grazing, cotton and gas production. "In many regions, much of the damage has already been done and the consequences are yet to be fully realised," writes Professor Ritchie. This is the concept of extinction debt - the time-lagged extinction of a species due to events in the past. Conservation efforts are starting from a long way behind, hence we can't afford to keep destroying habitats. "Instead, restoration efforts need to be ramped up, some areas declared ‘no go zones’ for development, and more sophisticated approaches for food production, housing construction, and infrastructure projects must be better supported," writes Professor Ritchie.
Habitat destruction hurting more than climate change - 360
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Inland waters protections are possible and are necessary to meet the GBF goals of halting nature and biodiversity loss. The first-ever WCPA technical report focused on inland waters features inland waters protection success stories from around the world. #InlandWaters #COP16 #freshwaterbiodiversity #30x30 #SuccessStory
🚨 New Report Launch: "Designing and managing protected and conserved areas to support inland water ecosystems and biodiversity" 🌊 This report, launched on #30x30 Action Day at #COP16, is IUCN WCPA’s first-ever guidance focused on inland water ecosystems and the biodiversity that depends on them. As the #GBF calls for the inclusion of inland water in the target to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030, this report provides guidance in employing protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures to benefit these critical ecosystems. 🔑 Key elements of the report include: 💡 Insights into what make inland waters distinct when designing and managing protected and conserved areas as they are connected, dynamic systems, and maintaining connectivity and flows are critical to the systems’ health. 🌍 Dozens of global case studies which highlight that inland waters protections are possible, they can contribute to meeting 30x30 goals, and are essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss. Around the world, new mechanisms designed specifically for protecting and conserving inland waters and their key ecological attributes are emerging. 🤝 A close look at how inland waters are intertwined with human lives, livelihoods and well-being. The report highlights frameworks, resources, and examples for understanding these relationships and setting the foundation for durable conservation approaches that prioritise human rights, equity and diverse governance. This publication provides a pathway for countries to explicitly include inland waters in their Target 3 national plans, conservation objectives, management plans and indicators. 📄 The full report, produced by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), The Nature Conservancy, WWF, IUCN SSC Freshwater Conservation Committee and Equilibrium Research, is now available: https://lnkd.in/eNsSjssN #COP16Colombia #BiodiversityFramework #KunmingMontreal #Freshwaterbiodiversity #InlandWaters #Wetlands Robin Abell, Nigel Dudley, Ian Harrison Shi Teng KANG Flavia Rocha Loures, LL.M, Ph.D Tara Moberg Michele Thieme, Hannah Timmins, Caitlin Doughty Suman Jumani Madhu Rao, Stephen Woodley, Harry Jonas, Sue Stolton
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Designing and managing protected and conserved areas to support inland water ecosystems and biodiversity
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Freshwater ecosystems, such as rivers, lakes, and wetlands, often fall through the cracks in global conservation efforts. Despite their critical role in biodiversity and providing essential resources for humans, only a small fraction of these ecosystems are adequately protected. IUCN WCPA’s latest publication sheds light on this urgent issue and offers a guide to strengthen conservation efforts. By designing protected areas with freshwater needs in mind, we can work towards reversing freshwater biodiversity loss and building climate resilience! IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) The Nature Conservancy #COP16Colombia
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Executive Director, Good Energies | Board Chair, World Resources Institute Brazil | Board, Arapyaú | Board, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
How to support nature finance at scale to guarantee the maintenance and enhancement of tropical forests worldwide? A pertinent and urgent question as intact tropical forests are the most cost-effective, near-term opportunity for climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. To make this happen, Amazônia 2030, with the support of BVRio and Instituto Igarapé, released an outstanding proposal, in the form of a Concept Note, on a Tropical Forests Mechanism (TFM), which is complementary to #Brazil's Federal Government’s Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFFF), which was announced at #COP28, aimed at securing funding to protect tropical rainforests in the equatorial green belt - the Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indomalayan realms. In summary, the three basins (#Amazon, #Congo, and Southeast #Asia) hold most of the world’s 1.2 billion hectares of tropical forests, and it is estimated that annual payments of USD 30 per hectare would provide enough incentives for their protection. The #oil and #gas sector, producing approximately 30 billion barrels a year, could provide most of the funding needed with a USD 1 per barrel contribution. Published ahead of the G20 Finance Ministers’ Meeting, the Concept Note proposes rules and procedures for distributing annual payments among tropical countries and to guide the application of resources within participating countries to maximize the impact in conservation of tropical forests. The TFM focuses on ‘hectares of forests’ rather than ‘tonnes of carbon’ as its primary metric, supporting the provision of environmental services such as carbon storage, biodiversity conservation, climate regulation, water retention, and benefits to forest stewards and inhabitants. Unlike traditional #carbon markets, the approach avoids challenges related to #additionality, #leakage, and #permanence, allowing for an effective conservation effort. Our gratitude to the masterminds behind this compelling proposal, including Tasso Azevedo, Beto Verissimo, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Pedro Moura Costa, Mauricio de Moura Costa, and Beto Mesquita, for their vision and commitment. Let us all work towards a much needed Global Pledge for Tropical Forests, through which all would actively contribute to stop randomly erasing the hard drive of life. This is not a utopian dream or an act of charity, but rather a high-yielding investment into our planetary foundations! 🙏🏾🌎🌳 See full report below, or download in the following link: https://lnkd.in/dFxnc2XA
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Chief Scientific Officer at EcoOnline, CEO at Resilience Constellation. For over over 25 years I've applied critical thought on how agriculture, food and forestry should transform to succeed in a changing world.
I like the ratchet concept, whereby countries must apply / accept a fine for deforestation in return for revenues for intact forest. There would be political pressure to wind this up over time to make it self-sufficient. The key would be learning lessons of forest fund governance from previous forest finance mechanisms -> NICFI, GEF's forest and biodiversity progs, WB-BioCF, the UK's Forest Investment Programme and others. Of course, if you could get political agreement on putting a tax on fossil fuels into a global fund, this would be just one of many initiatives that would be lining up to get a slice.
Executive Director, Good Energies | Board Chair, World Resources Institute Brazil | Board, Arapyaú | Board, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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🚨 New Report Launch: "Designing and managing protected and conserved areas to support inland water ecosystems and biodiversity" 🌊 This report, launched on #30x30 Action Day at #COP16, is IUCN WCPA’s first-ever guidance focused on inland water ecosystems and the biodiversity that depends on them. As the #GBF calls for the inclusion of inland water in the target to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030, this report provides guidance in employing protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures to benefit these critical ecosystems. 🔑 Key elements of the report include: 💡 Insights into what make inland waters distinct when designing and managing protected and conserved areas as they are connected, dynamic systems, and maintaining connectivity and flows are critical to the systems’ health. 🌍 Dozens of global case studies which highlight that inland waters protections are possible, they can contribute to meeting 30x30 goals, and are essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss. Around the world, new mechanisms designed specifically for protecting and conserving inland waters and their key ecological attributes are emerging. 🤝 A close look at how inland waters are intertwined with human lives, livelihoods and well-being. The report highlights frameworks, resources, and examples for understanding these relationships and setting the foundation for durable conservation approaches that prioritise human rights, equity and diverse governance. This publication provides a pathway for countries to explicitly include inland waters in their Target 3 national plans, conservation objectives, management plans and indicators. 📄 The full report, produced by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), The Nature Conservancy, WWF, IUCN SSC Freshwater Conservation Committee and Equilibrium Research, is now available: https://lnkd.in/eNsSjssN #COP16Colombia #BiodiversityFramework #KunmingMontreal #Freshwaterbiodiversity #InlandWaters #Wetlands Robin Abell, Nigel Dudley, Ian Harrison Shi Teng KANG Flavia Rocha Loures, LL.M, Ph.D Tara Moberg Michele Thieme, Hannah Timmins, Caitlin Doughty Suman Jumani Madhu Rao, Stephen Woodley, Harry Jonas, Sue Stolton
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