Nature Based Solutions

'Net zero is not enough': Why climate experts are calling for 'net negative' emissions strategies

Climate change

'Net zero is not enough': Why climate experts are calling for 'net negative' emissions strategies

Climate Crisis Advisory Group argues that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 could reach dangerous levels by 2050, even if net zero targets are met

clock 26 August 2021 • 7 min read
Mobilising institutional investment is critical for financing nature-based climate solutions

Climate change

Mobilising institutional investment is critical for financing nature-based climate solutions

Mark Wishnie from BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group and Landscape Capital

clock 09 August 2021 • 5 min read
'A prime example of doublethink': How surging demand for land-based CO2 offsets could threaten global food security

Offsets

'A prime example of doublethink': How surging demand for land-based CO2 offsets could threaten global food security

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land

clock 03 August 2021 • 7 min read

Offsets

Hartree Partners inks $2bn deal with Wildlife Works to expand voluntary carbon market

Tie-up will see commodities trader work with conservation group to deliver 20 projects forestry protection projects aiming to cut CO2 by 20 million tonnes per year

clock 27 July 2021 • 3 min read

Carbon Trading

How business-backed rules for natural climate solutions could help bolster carbon credit credibility

New guidance is geared at helping corporates embed natural climate solutions in their climate strategies in a credible manner while supporting the development of a robust carbon market

clock 16 July 2021 • 5 min read

Biodiversity

Wildlife Trusts funds 12 new nature protection projects with £2m from People's Postcode Lottery

Funding for ‘high impact’ projects announced as pressure mounts on government to amend Environment Bill to include legally binding target to halt nature’s decline

clock 08 July 2021 • 3 min read

Carbon Accounting

Businesses and trade groups call for global negative emissions drive

Current levels of investment in negative emissions technology fall far short of levels required to cap temperature rise in line with Paris goals, new coalition warns

clock 30 June 2021 • 4 min read

Climate change

'Net zero doesn't solve the problem': Five key lessons from the CCC's climate risk assessment

There are many urgent takeaways from the Climate Change Committee's stark UK climate preparedness assessment - here are the top five

clock 16 June 2021 • 12 min read

Biodiversity

Zoom in on Net Zero - with Natural England's Mike Morecroft

VIDEO: Principal specialist on climate change at advisory body chats to BusinessGreen about England's potential for harnessing nature-based solutions to fight climate change

clock 16 June 2021 • 1 min read

Science

Overlapping climate and nature crises must be tackled in tandem, UN panel warns

Landmark collaboration between UN science bodies warns that policies to date have failed to account for the interconnected nature of biodiversity loss and climate change

clock 10 June 2021 • 4 min read