Deforestation-Related Externalities Create Financial Risks and Poor Returns for Investors, New Research Shows
September 12, 2018 | Matt Piotrowski | Financial Markets, Forests & Lands
PRESS RELEASE: Investing in companies that engage in deforestation-related activities poses material risks and produces poor returns for financial institutions, according to new research from Climate Advisers and S-Network Global Indexes. Companies in the palm oil sector that do not have sustainability policies have significantly underperformed compared to those that have followed no-deforestation programs
Creating Negative Emissions: The Role of Natural and Technological Carbon Dioxide Removal Strategies
June 22, 2018 | Claire Langley | Energy, Forests & Lands
REPORT: Natural solutions are abundant, well-understood, and readily-available carbon dioxide removal options that exist today. They should be deployed fully and without delay. Scientists and other experts increasingly believe that nations will need to proactively deploy planetary-scale solutions to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the atmosphere in addition to rapidly [&hellip
The Economic Impact at the National Level of the Illegal Conversion of Forests for Export-Driven Industrial Agriculture
April 26, 2018 | Climate Advisers | Forests & Lands
DISCUSSION DRAFT: Between 2000-2012, half of all tropical deforestation was the result of illegal clearing for industrial agriculture (Lawson et al. 2014). This report aims to characterize the costs of this illegality. While the impacts are widespread, including global, we focus our analyses on the costs to the countries in which the deforestation occurs. We [&hellip
Blockchain: the missing link between climate finance and forest conservation?
January 22, 2018 | Climate Advisers | Financial Markets
POLICY PAPER: If you haven’t heard of blockchain yet, you soon will. From its beginnings as a system for verifying Bitcoin transactions, blockchain is now sweeping the world of finance and expanding into other areas of business and public policy. And it’s already being touted as a tool for facilitating climate-related transactions, including results-based payments [&hellip
Tax Reform: A $1.5 Trillion Missed Opportunity, For Now
January 22, 2018 | Climate Advisers | US Policy & Politics
REPORT: Last month, budget-conscious Congressional Republicans passed a massive tax reform package that will likely add at least $1.5 trillion to the U.S. federal deficit over the next 10 years. But here’s the thing—it didn’t have to. One sensible and responsible revenue-raising option would have gone a long way in helping to close the funding [&hellip
Ceres Launches “Engage the Chain” Case Studies on Business Risks from Deforestation
December 11, 2017 | Climate Advisers | Financial Markets
CASE STUDY: Companies that fail to manage their environmental performance expose themselves to business risks. Rising consumer and investor awareness about the environmental and social impacts of deforestation is placing increased scrutiny on companies that source commodities from high-risk deforestation, to ensure that their products are not sourced with illegal or questionable environmental practices. Companies [&hellip
CORSIA Offers Opportunities for REDD+ Programs in Indonesia and Ethiopia
November 22, 2017 | Climate Advisers | Diplomacy, Energy, Forests & Lands
CASE STUDY: The Carbon Offsetting Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is a mechanism for airlines to achieve international aviation’s target of carbon neutral growth post-2020 by purchasing emission reductions achieved outside the sector. This is an opportunity for countries to finance programs that reduce emissions from airlines investing in those reductions. Throughout 2017 Climate [&hellip
Aviation Climate Plans Could Pay Anti-Deforestation Dividends in Colombia
August 23, 2017 | Climate Advisers | Diplomacy, Forests & Lands
PRESS RELEASE : The nation of Colombia could potentially attract hundreds of millions of dollars in investment to protect its forests through a system currently under consideration by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and its 191 member states, according to a new analysis by the firm Climate Advisers. The analysis finds that the benefits [&hellip
By the Numbers: Linking the ICAO Global Market-Based Mechanism to REDD+ in Colombia
August 14, 2017 | Climate Advisers | Forests & Lands
The nation of Colombia could attract hundreds of millions of dollars in investment for protecting its forests through a plan currently under consideration by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and its 191 member states, according to new analysis by the firm Climate Advisers. The analysis finds that the benefits of the plan would dramatically [&hellip
Cooperative Approaches for REDD+: Linking Articles 5 and 6 of the Paris Agreement
June 16, 2017 | Climate Advisers | Diplomacy, Forests & Lands
REPORT: The 194 signatories to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change ensured that it highlighted the importance of forests in reaching the 2° goal and encouraged each other to take action through the framework they had agreed to in 2013 – the Warsaw Framework for REDD+ (WFR). While many countries have included some consideration of the forest sector in [&hellip