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  • Farming in 2050: storing carbon could help meet Australia’s climate goals

    Brett Anthony Bryan, CSIRO Australia’s agricultural lands help to feed about 60 million people worldwide, and also support tens of thousands of farmers as well as rural communities and industries. But a growing global population with a growing appetite is placing increasing demands on our agricultural land. At the same time, the climate is warming […]

  • Empowering a greener future with Climate Investment Funds

    By Mafalda Duarte. Originally published by The World Bank’s Development in a Changing Climate Blog as Empowering a greener future. This is Morocco’s Noor 1 concentrated solar power plant, the first phase of what will eventually be the largest concentrated solar power plant in the world. It is an impressive sight—visible even from space–and it […]

  • New data on Climate Investment Funds and their results

    By Martin Hall (Climate Investment Funds). Originally published at the World Bank’s The Data Blog. Readers of this blog site will know that open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed – it’s legally open and technically open.  Readers of this blog may not know that the $8.3 billion Climate Investment Funds […]

  • Who’s Managing the Earth’s Factory Floor?

    By Tim Gieseke, author of EcoCommerce 101 – Adding an Ecological Dimension to the Economy. It has taken a long time to admit it, but after two decades farming and sustainability projects, I realized landscape sustainability is no longer just a technical, scientific or even political problem. It has evolved into a so-called wicked problem of […]

  • European Investment Bank tackling climate change worldwide

    “I have been able to buy clothes, feed and educate my kids. I have I have even started building an extension to my house,” Yolanda says proudly. Yolanda is one of several producers around Quito in Ecuador,  supplying goldenberries to Terrafertil – a climate positive business supported by the European Investment Bank via the EcoEnterprises […]

  • A Year in the Lives of Smallholder Farmers

    Originally published at The World Bank. Put yourself for a moment in the shoes of a small-scale farmer in rural Mozambique. Two weeks before harvest, a massive flood wipes out your entire maize crop. You had been counting on this harvest for most of your annual income and much of your food. What would you […]

  • The Forgotten Climate Solution

    Nature has solutions that can sustainably balance environmental health and human priorities. In other words, sometimes nature can outperform our best technological innovations. Watch The Nature Conservancy discuss the “forgotten” climate solutions.

  • A Panama hat trick? Higher carbon stock, stakeholder income and forest cover

    By Gabriel Labbate. Originally published at the UN-REDD Programme Blog. Results from Panama show that increases in carbon stocks, stakeholder incomes and forest cover can be achieved simultaneously through a landscape approach to REDD+ combining avoided deforestation/degradation, the promotion of silvopastoral and agroforestry systems, and tree plantations. In the presence of an appropriate monitoring system, a […]