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How can we bring social and ecological integrity into #NaturebasedSolutions❓ At the ongoing Nature-based Solutions Conference in Oxford🇬🇧, UNEP-WCMC Head of NbS Najma Mohamed moderated a panel discussion on the challenges of ethical advancement of nature-based solutions and exploring strategies to advance the transformative potential of NbS. The session brought together experts from Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), IUCN and UN Biodiversity, outlining the present challenges to the nature of offsetting, and exploring potential financial support for NbS. Nature-Based Solutions Initiative 📸⤵️ #NbSConference🌱

Join us for a global webinar this week to get insights & details directly from Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) on the newly released Biodiversity Standard. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e-n2ccxW The new GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024 #GRIStandard sets a new bar for global transparency on #biodiversity & #nature impacts. It's now freely available to help organizations around the world meeting growing demands from stakeholders to disclose their most significant biodiversity-related impacts. The revised Standard builds on key developments in the field, including the United Nations Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the Science Based Targets Network & Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). Learn more & sign up for the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/e-n2ccxW #Sustainability #SustainabilityReporting #impactreporting #naturepositive

Book your place at our upcoming webinar unpacking the Task Force for Nature Related Finance (TNFD) reporting framework as a tool for understanding and managing biodiversity. https://bit.ly/3UXLKuA This webinar aims to explain: - What the TNFD is - The context of the reporting framework including drivers for reporting nature and related policy - How TNFD relates to your role Guest speaker: Stephanie Hime, Little Blue Research #nature #biodiversity #sustainability

On #InternationalBiodiversityDay UNEP FI is committed to showing how finance can work for #nature. The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), developed under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), provides a strategic vision and global roadmap for the conservation and sustainable use of #biodiversity. Biodiversity is essential for a healthy planet and thriving economies. Financial institutions play a critical role in protecting our natural world by identifying biodiversity-related risks and opportunities, integrating these considerations into their investment and lending decisions, and supporting projects that benefit nature. Check out how each part of the financial sector can apply the Global Biodiversity Framework here: https://ow.ly/vXV150RRqqz

IEMA has published a new paper with the outputs of a series of workshops with business and Government on the UN Global Biodiversity Framework. Lesley Wilson, Policy Lead on #biodiversity and #naturalcapital tells us more: https://bit.ly/40B3Rr4

To effectively address nature-related risks and opportunities, business leaders are going to need reliable sources of data on the health of nature in places where they—and their value-chain partners—operate. But when the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) assessed the nature data that’s available, it found quality shortcomings and no consistent taxonomy. We have been working with the TNFD to develop guidance for financial institutions to navigate biodiversity footprinting. Explore our Biodiversity Footprinting Discussion Paper which provides an overview of what biodiversity footprinting is, the current limitations with existing approaches, and six steps to getting started: https://pwc.to/48D4SlC #Biodiversity

The Global Biodiversity Framework has estimated a #biodiversity finance gap of USD 700 bn, requiring resource mobilisation from both public and private sources. Join this webinar, in collaboration with United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and Finance for Biodiversity next Tuesday, 30 January to hear about the latest #innovations in nature #finance to progressively fill that gap. Find out more and register 🌿 https://ow.ly/cohg50QukqL

#SA #EBA guideline promotes ecosystem-based approaches that take a holistic approach of habitat-species-ecological processes and ecosystems in order to build resilience to climate change.

Karen Nagel https://lnkd.in/gy75CuXR #biodiversity #bermuda #netpositive 1. Measurements of biodiversity need to be effective, robust and science-based, while securing broad consensus on what these are and allowing for heterogeneity reflecting the diversity of nature. 2. Buyers need to be confident that what they are buying is real and the claims they can make about them are credible, and that these support their business aims complementing corporate social responsibility and TNFD requirements. 3. Suppliers need to be able to ensure they can meet expectations of the market and safeguard integrity of their credits at an economical and fair price over the long term. 4. Nature’s stewards, including land managers, farmers, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, need to be involved in the design and development of these markets, have access to the biodiversity they preserve, and receive equitable rewards.

Webinar on the Ecosystem Approach