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There is no climate or economic solution without nature. Governments must incorporate nature into policy, and businesses and investors must recognize the economic opportunities of preserving and restoring ecosystems. 🍀 Today, the Nature4Climate coalition is excited to announce the launch of its new unbranded campaign: ➡ WITH NATURE. A flexible platform, the new campaign calls out to diverse sectors to take action and advocate for nature´s agency in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises as they reach a turning point. Together, we can LEAD WITH NATURE. We now nominate Crowther Lab | ETH Zurich to join us in this campaign and share their commitment to act with nature. #WithNature #ClimateAction

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has chosen businessman Dan Ioschpe as the High-Level Climate Champion for #COP30. Trellis Group reports that Meta and EFM, a forest investment and management firm, have finalized a long-term contract for the delivery of 676,000 nature-based carbon removal credits through 2035. You can read more about these topics and check out more news in the N4C Weekly Brief. Here’s what else you will find in this edition: 📰 Nature Headlines: New round of NDCs 'unprecedented opportunity' to integrate nature into climate action (Carbon Pulse) 🌱 Good News: Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups (Mongabay) 📊 Nature Finance Round Up: Green Climate Fund (GCF) grants Serbia $25 mln for forest management project 🔢 NCS in the real world: Serbia has the opportunity to mitigate approximately 200,000 tCO2e/yr by 2050 if it meets its potential for Climate Smart Forestry according to data from the naturebase platform. 📅 Highlighted Event - Nature Finance Forum Europe 2025 (28  April - Host: United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) _______ 💌 Don't miss out on the full version of our Weekly Brief! Subscribe now to receive it directly in your inbox: https://lnkd.in/gzmtmCrE #climateaction #climatenews #newsletter #naturebasedsolutions #nature #COP30

🛰️ 🌳 How should remote sensing be applied to carbon projects? 🌳 🛰️ Announcing the launch of TNC's latest guide, The Nature-Based Credit Science Decoder Series: Remote Sensing! This comprehensive resource delves into the latest scientific advancements in remote sensing technologies and their applications to Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) project initiation, baseline assessment, and impact monitoring.   Why is this important ❓ Carbon accounting methods that prioritize scientific best practices are essential for rigorous carbon crediting. While decades of research have significantly improved the quality of carbon credits, ongoing advancements in technology continue to enhance project accounting. Our new guide provides an overview of these advancements and discusses various concepts, platforms, tools, and data sources.   Who will benefit❓ This guide is designed to help buyers of high-quality carbon credits evaluate the rigor of carbon market service providers, such as ratings agencies and third-party monitoring services. It also serves as a valuable resource for assessing whether carbon market tools and projects are effectively deploying scientifically sound methodologies and approaches.   Check out The Nature-Based Credit Science Decoder Series: Remote Sensing! https://lnkd.in/dK3xPizc Kudos to the authors: Judith Ament, PhD, Kurt Fesenmyer, Samantha Yeo

The Iris Project supported by Youth4Nature has opened applications for The Iris Prize 2025! A global annual award for young people working to accelerate action to protect and restore nature anywhere in the world. 🌈 Who? 14 to 24 year olds. Individuals or groups can apply.  🏆 What? Projects that best embody the spirit of The Iris Project - championing the protection and restoration of nature and the rights of those who defend it.  🗓️ When? Applications will be open until 15 April 23:59 CET 🌍 Where? Applicants can enter from anywhere in the world and in any language. 🏆 The prize categories: 💚 Iris – $15,000 (ages 16-24) awarded to an established project with the potential to replicate and scale 🌿 Stem – $10,000 (ages 16-24) awarded to an existing project established on a small scale 🌱 Seed – $5,000 (ages 14-24) awarded to a project that has not yet been established → Read the eligibility criteria and our prize guidelines here: https://lnkd.in/edJY6rZR Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, and French. 

Animals worldwide are threatened by climate change, experiencing habitat loss, food scarcity, and disrupted reproduction. Biodiversity is essential for ecosystem balance and climate regulation. Healthy ecosystems absorb carbon dioxide, provide clean air and water, and enhance resilience against climate impacts. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has listed 16 species most threatened in 2024. Here are a few examples: 🐟 Chinook Salmon: Struggling with rising ocean temperatures and reduced freshwater streams. 🪸 Corals: Suffering from mass bleaching and ocean acidification. 🐸 Golden Toad: Extinct due to changing weather patterns disrupting their reproductive cycles. 🐻❄️ Polar Bears: Losing their icy habitats and struggling to find food. 🦋 Monarch Butterflies: Facing habitat loss and changing migration patterns. 🔗 You can check the full list here: https://lnkd.in/d9GMyvaR Photo: © US Fish and Wildlife Service

Decision-makers, nature teams, and any internal champions in the public/private sectors: the Nature Tech community is here to support you in your nature positive transformation. Last week, we attended the first-ever Nature Tech Summit in London, a new event that brought together innovative solutions for nature-positive outcomes. As part of Nature Tech Week (March 24-28, 2025), this summit represented another step in connecting technology with nature action. Five key insights emerged: 1️⃣ NatureTech technology is on the rise. The convergence of in-situ technologies, Earth Observation and AI is exponentiating our ability to address land-use problems globally and we see the surge of a new tech sector in front of our eyes. 2️⃣ While technology is increasingly efficient and reliable, we must focus on addressing the main problem: the extractive use of nature at the expense of those communities that steward it and of our long-term prosperity. That requires deeper changes and more systemic approaches than just building technology. We need to redefine our relationship to nature in two ways: First, we need to awaken to the deep interconnections and interrelationships of all life. Ostara, co-founded by Nicole Schwab strives to reconnect people to nature and empower decision-makers to rebuild and retool our economy in service of life. They re-commit the economy to deeper values. Then, we need to use technology to manifest the value of nature in our economic systems - and allow it to be investible as something of value, as we do at The Landbanking Group. We re-instate nature as economic value. 3️⃣ The Nature Tech community is embracing collaboration over competition - a recurring theme that was strongly reinforced throughout the summit as companies actively share resources, data, and expertise to accelerate environmental solutions. “When your VCs ask for a competitor map, show them a collaborator map”. See the emerging landscape here: https://lnkd.in/diTxbB7C 4️⃣ Nature Tech is ready to serve as a catalyst for today's nature-related challenges, and to serve as the economy’s most critical derisking mechanism when nature’s “Minsky Moment” strikes. For more info about nature’s “Minsky Moment”, read this article https://lnkd.in/dSBGdGD9 5️⃣Our simple CTA: decision-makers, nature teams, and any internal champions in the public/private sectors - at whatever point you are on that nature positive transition, the nature tech community is here to help. There is still an education gap across every economic sector with exposure to nature, and our community is happy to provide clarity, sensemaking, and immediate actionable support. Thank you, Nature4Climate, Nature Tech Collective and CE Events & Media for hosting a great event. There was take-off in the air. Let's not waste the opportunity.

📽️ Healthy peatlands are #naturebasedsolutions. They help us mitigate and adapt to #climatechange while sustaining unique #biodiversity and filtering #water. To demonstrate this, we partnered with Caledonian Climate to restore degraded #peatlands in Scotland. Watch the short film here: https://lnkd.in/dNUx_C7i Scotica Film Nature4Climate

Today, at the Nature Tech Summit, the Nature Tech Collective and Conservation International launched their first Sector Map for Biodiversity, identifying and categorizing over 650 organizations delivering biodiversity technology. Biodiversity loss is one of humanity's greatest challenges and we need to better understand the relationships between different approaches, organizations, and technologies to scale up solutions. You can read more about this topic and check out more news in the N4C Weekly Brief. Here’s what else you will find in this edition: 🏞 Nature Headlines: Climate group SBTi proposes new rules, holds line on carbon offsets (Reuters) 🌱 Good News: The return of the Stone-curlew – A conservation triumph (Birdlife) 💼 Nature Jobs & Opportunities: Director of Nature Based Solutions (NBS) - Sylvera 📅 Highlighted Event - San Francisco Climate Week  (April 19-27 - Host: Climatebase) 🔢 NCS in the real world: Case Study of the Restoring Australia’s Coastal Wetlands project and Australia's opportunity to sequester 1.4 MtCO2e/yr by 2050 if it meets its potential for coastal wetland restoration. _______ 💌 Don't miss out on the full version of our Weekly Brief! Subscribe now to receive it directly in your inbox: https://lnkd.in/gzmtmCrE #climateaction #climatenews #newsletter #naturebasedsolutions #nature

We’re thrilled to welcome an incredible lineup of speakers to the 2025 Nature Tech Summit! From AI-powered biodiversity tools to nature risk intelligence and supply chain solutions, our speakers will spark the bold ideas and actionable insights needed to drive the future of Nature Tech. 🎤 You’ll hear from: Prof. Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey Nicole Schwab Kristjan Lepik Craig Mills Giora Kaplan (Gig) Amy Rosenthal Ali Swanson James d'Ath Gavin Edwards Jo Paisley Gareth Thomas PhD MRSB Mansi A. Phil Platts Alejandro Litovsky Alex Novarro, PhD Sebastian Leape Alena Cierna Rebekah Braswell Bourhan Yassin Marie Kemplay Jinal Surti Francis Gassert Freya Bannochie Marco Albani Kathleen Buckingham Vivian Bertseka Anna Lerner Nesbitt Lucy Almond and Gilad Goren We can’t wait to learn from these voices as we explore how technology will drive a nature-positive future!

🌾#NaturebasedSolutions are Reforming #Agriculture in An Giang, #Vietnam 🌍A #Giang Province in Vietnam is setting the pace for sustainable agricultural growth, targeting 4.8% growth in 2025 with a shift toward high-tech and nature-based farming models. 💥A notable example is the #Mekong #NbSProject, where farmers are rotating rice with lotus, fish farming, and eco-tourism, maximizing income while minimizing environmental impact. 🌿  🔹 Reduced chemical use  🔹 Multiple revenue streams  🔹 Climate-resilient practices  🔹 Backed by WWF-Viet Nam & An Giang University’s Climate Change Institute From low-emission rice farming to fish-breeding in flooded fields, An Giang is proving that Nature-based solutions can deliver economic, environmental, and social value all at once. 📈 Over 44,000 ha of rice to be grown under the Ministry of Agriculture’s sustainable farming program in 2025 (up from 8,540 ha in 2024). 👉 A model for other climate-vulnerable regions. 💬 What are your thoughts on integrating NbS into mainstream agriculture? #NatureBasedSolutions #NaturalCapital #Agriculture #Vietnam #NbS #ClimateFinance #ClimateAction