N4C Weekly Brief | MAR 26 - APR 2
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Nature4Climate aims to increase action on natural climate solutions in support of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
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A new report from Orbitas , a Climate Advisers initiative, assessing Brazil’s cattle sector and how climate action can impact its financial outlook, finds?significant risks for maintaining business-as-usual practices and fast growing opportunities to invest in sustainable agriculture and emerging markets. The report is accompanied by interactive financial modeling tools to help investors, producers, buyers and other stakeholders understand how efforts to solve climate change will change market dynamics into the future.
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Residents of La Oroya, Peru, known as one of the most polluted cities on Earth, have won a landmark victory from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which ruled last week that Peru was responsible for the physical and mental harm that a metallurgical facility’s pollution inflicted on 80 people.?The court ordered the government of Peru to provide free medical care to the victims and to compensate each individual upwards of $30,000 each, depending on each person’s specific circumstances. The landmark ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will have far reaching implications for communities affected by extreme pollution.
Case Study of the Week - Biodiversity Preservation & Sustainable Cardamom Cycle Project
WHERE: CERRO SAN GIL, GUATEMALA
TYPE OF NCS SOLUTION: RESTORE??
The mountain range of Cerro San Gil has been threatened by cattle ranching, slash-and-burn farming techniques and monoculture, which have stripped the soil of its fertility and pushed rural communities to go further upslope in search of arable land. This project is a large-scale reforestation and agroecology project to couple natural resources preservation with improved livelihoods for local Maya communities. The project?has far planted 3?million trees and restored 2,000 acres of land. This includes rubber plantations with cardamom,?which generate new economic activity.
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WEF shares a video highlighting UpLink, a competition searching for innovations that conserve, protect and restore biodiversity.
Conservation International shares research updates on its paper mapping carbon sinks: some of these essential carbon reserves have been lost, but new protected areas are now storing millions of metric tons of irrecoverable carbon.
IFAW asks candidates in the upcoming European elections to publicly pledge their support for key environmental and wildlife protection policies, and urges citizens to vote with the future of the planet in mind.
IUCN presents a proposal for?a specific article on “Biodiversity Aspects” in the future Plastics Treaty, putting forward IUCN’s key expertise within a new global environmental treaty.
Audubon interviews several facilities managed by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance to understand how they think about and prepare for natural disasters that imperil critically endangered species under human care.
UNEP publishes a new report co-authored with WRAP finding that the world squanders over 1 billion meals a day. Out of the total food wasted in 2022, 60 per cent happened at the household level, with food services responsible for 28 per cent and retail 12 per cent.
Woodwell Climate Research Center shares expertise from leading U.S. scientists and policy experts that outlines key recommendations aimed at bolstering the scientific foundation for implementation of Nature-based Climate Solutions (NbCS) across the nation.
WBCSD provides an overview of the contents of the EU Deforestation Regulation and preparatory steps for compliance for companies established in the EU.
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NUMBER OF THE WEEK - 96 MtCO2e/yr
The annual carbon dioxide emissions that could be sequestered by meeting Brazil’s?potential to increase carbon stored in grazing lands by 2050.? A new report assessing financial impacts on Brazil’s cattle sector from climate transitions finds significant potential returns for investing in soil restoration for current pasture lands.?See more details on the potential for natural climate solutions in N4C’s?naturebase .
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