Biodiversity credits designed to incentivize the conservation and restoration of natural habitats need better transparency and regulation to be effective and credible. A new paper by scientists from ...
Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors wishing to offset their impact on nature—could be an effective component of ...
Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Rising sea temperatures, pollution and overfishing threaten eastern Africa's 1000km of coral reefs Africa has 30 ...
The importance of the financial sector to biodiversity conservation and restoration is increasingly recognized in international policy and practice. Alongside efforts to divert finance from harmful ...
Planet Money buys a "biodiversity credit" and travels to the Andean cloud forest in Colombia — to see how these credits work, and if they can really help save threatened species. Protecting endangered ...
These credits can then be used by companies or individuals to meet voluntary environmental targets or demonstrate a commitment to biodiversity stewardship. But they remain a controversial funding ...
Biodiversity credits designed to incentivise the conservation and restoration of natural habitats need better transparency and regulation to be effective and credible. A new study by scientists from ...
Protecting endangered ecosystems is usually thought of as a job for governments. Now, a new financial instrument hopes to get the private sector to help out. Stan Alcorn and Tomas Uprimni take a look ...
The decline of mangroves significantly weakens Kenya’s coastal protection, leaving shorelines susceptible to erosion, storm surges and rising sea levels, disrupting marine ecosystems, depleting fish ...