Will ‘Trump Part II’ be the wakeup call needed toward more effective conservation? (commentary)

Will ‘Trump Part II’ be the wakeup call needed toward more effective conservation? (commentary)

What a week. The global biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia (COP16) had just concluded. And then Trump got re-elected as President of the United States. Clearly the latter puts an enormous damper on the former. That is, if one believes that the Cali conference actually made significant progress in terms of tackling the biodiversity crisis. […]

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International panel launches guidelines for ‘high integrity’ biodiversity credits

International panel launches guidelines for ‘high integrity’ biodiversity credits

At the United Nations biodiversity conference currently underway in Colombia, an international panel has published a framework with guidelines to scale up “biodiversity credits,” an emerging financial mechanism to tackle the global loss of nature. Biodiversity credits are meant to be a way for companies to invest in projects that protect or restore nature, earning […]

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