Category: Nature for Climate

United Science Report 2019 on Climate Change

 Some details on the state of the climate © http://www.futureearth.org

See the high-level synthesis report of latest climate science information convened by the Science Advisory Group of the UN Climate Action Summit 2019. This report assembles the key scientific findings of recent work in the domain of global climate change research. Some topics in the report consists of the global climate in 2015 – 2019, Global fossil CO2 emissions, greenhouse gas concentrations, emissions gap, climate insights, and global framework for climate services.

Financing Blue Carbon with Insurance

Mangroves in the Philippines. Photo by Esther Anne F. Bueno.

The Restoration Insurance Service Company (RISCO) is an innovative finance project aimed at investing in blue carbon in marine and coastal ecosystems, particularly in the Philippines. The project is part of the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance and aims to protect 4,000 hectares of mangrove forest through conservation and restoration efforts in partnership with local communities.

RISCO’s innovative approach involves identifying areas where mangroves provide high flood reduction benefits and modeling the value of those benefits.

This innovative finance project highlights the potential for financial solutions to address environmental challenges, such as the protection and restoration of mangrove ecosystems. By partnering with local communities and generating revenue from blue carbon credits, RISCO aims to create a sustainable model for mangrove conservation and restoration.

Learn more here.

Harrison Ford at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019

Harrison Ford speaking at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019:

“We need to protect what we have. We need to restore what we have lost. We need to defund the mechanisms, the perverse tax subsidies, the lending policies, and the institutional investments that fuel deforestation. It is understood that the protection and preservation of forest, can achieve at least 30% of the emission reduction we need to protect the planet.”

See more in this video.