New study on the Gola-REDD+ initiative in #SierraLeone shows that #carbonfinance can help boost #biodiversity too 🌍

Use of #Bioacoustics and #DNAmetabarcoding found that REDD+ funded areas outperformed both community lands and non-funded protected areas 🧵

Downloadable paper: shorturl.at/5BiQn

@lutzmerbold.bsky.social @ilri.org @cgiar.org

#ClimateAction #ResearchImpact #ILRI #Kenya #EcosystemServices #CarbonSequestration #CarbonFinance #resilience #rangelands #drought #seasonality

CONFED and EcoGuard Global Sign Agreement at WEF Davos to Build the Philippines’ First Digital Carbon Office on Hedera Landmark collaboration aims to unlock large-scale climate finance for over 3 million coconut farmers through Carbon Markets 2.0 DAVOS, Switzerland, Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Confederation of Coconut Farmers Organizations of the Philippines (CONFED) and EcoGuard Global AG have signed an agreement at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos to establish the Philippines’ first Carbon Office, powered by a digital carbon financing and exchange platform (the “EcoGuard Platform”) built on Hedera. The initiative will be developed with Telenym as the local technology partner. The agreement marks […]

CONFED and EcoGuard Global Sign Agreement at WEF Davos #CarbonFinance #SustainableAgriculture #ClimateAction #DigitalCarbonOffice #CoconutFarmers

Ghana's Landscape Approach to REDD+: Is it decentralizing or recentralizing power? Since 1889, local communities in Ghana have been struggling to achieve equitable control over their land and forest resources

🔊New paper in Geoforum! We examine how #Ghana’s Hotspot Intervention Areas (HIAs) reshape land & forest governance. Are they decentralising power—or quietly recentralising it? 🌍
#LandGovernance #CarbonFinance #Ghana #Conservation #Geoforum

@ecioxford.bsky.social

The workshop was hosted by Bayes Consulting with support from the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

#EnergyTransition #ElectricityDemand #CleanCooking #eCooking #e-Mobility #CarbonFinance #BudgetNeutrality #EEDAdvisory

At #CarbonUnboundEastCoast 2025, we’re exploring climate tech investment sentiment: Bullish, bearish, or mixed? 📉📈 Join the panel to unpack risks, opportunities, and the future of carbon removal finance ⏳ www.carbonunboundeastcoast.com
#ClimateTech #CarbonFinance #InvestmentSentiment

Buried Risk to Opportunity: Abating Methane Through Carbon Finance The orphan well crisis is both a climate imperative and a market opportunity to foster environmental restoration and methane reduction at a scale impossible ...

By leveraging high-integrity carbon finance, forward-thinking companies are helping solve one of the most persistent environmental challenges while making measurable progress on climate goals.

sustainablebrands.com/read/abating... #Methane #CarbonFinance #Climate #Environment

Check out this Colorado State University SOURCE article about the Carbon Finance Bootcamp!

source.colostate.edu/may-12-15-ca...

#CSU #carbonfinance #climatechange

Tapping the Potential of Catalytic Carbon Finance: Could This Collaborative Approach Unlock Scale in Africa’s Off-Grid Solar Sector? How an innovative approach to catalytic carbon finance could enable Africa to lead the global shift toward renewable energy.

Access isn't the only #energy -related challenge facing #Africa: As of 2022, just 43% of Africans had electricity that worked most or all of the time.

Could catalytic #CarbonFinance unlock scale in Africa's #OffGrid #solar sector, boosting reliable #EnergyAccess?

nextbillion.net/catalytic-ca...

Tapping the Potential of Catalytic Carbon Finance: Could This Collaborative Approach Unlock Scale in Africa’s Off-Grid Solar Sector? How an innovative approach to catalytic carbon finance could enable Africa to lead the global shift toward renewable energy.

Tapping the Potential of Catalytic #CarbonFinance: Could This Collaborative Approach Unlock Scale in #Africa’s Off-Grid #Solar Sector?

📖 bit.ly/4ggqPtK

#OffGridSolar #SocialEnterprise #SocialBusiness #ClimateFinance #sustainability #CarbonCredits #SDG7 #innovation #OffGridPower #CleanEnergy

#Development and #ClimateFinance in Concert. It was wonderful to work with the World Bank’s Climate Finance Mobilization Unit this week on how we can align global #carbonfinance with local development and resilience goals - including protecting natural capital - and empower and enable communities.

Delighted to have presented #Kaleidoscope of #CarbonPricing in #Africa at the 25th Global #Conference on #Environmental #Taxation #GCET25 at #Stellenbosch #Business #School, #SA on 20 September 2024.
#DRM
#ClimateFinance
#CarbonFinance
#NbS
#VCMs
#Sustainable #forest #management

Any conference or forum that has Carbon and carbon finance in its name is full with folks either trying to sell carbon credits or giving sanctimonious sermons on integrity of these projects. Where are the one who are supposed to buy and offsets their emissions!!

#carbonfinance #climatefinance