Videos
How to Measure the Positive Impact on Biodiversity of an Investment?
12 Dec 2019
How to measure the positive impact on biodiversity of an investment? Key to achieving sustainable land use is bending the curve on biodiversity. To do so, incorporation of biodiversity into the investments of the private sector are necessary. These investments need methodologies to measure their impact. Agreeing on methodolo-gies and terminology is a first step […]
Financial Perspectives on Sustainable Land Use: Which Business Models Fit and How Can We Scale them Up?
12 Dec 2019
Natural capital is key to halting the loss of biodiversity and adapting to climate change, and it will require significantly increased investment in the years to come. A number of innovative financing solutions have been developed. However, a disconnect remains: many project developers struggle to access mainstream finance to scale their business, and mainstream investors […]
Unlocking Sustainable Finance to Transform Food Systems Under a Changing Climate
12 Dec 2019
Building on the “Transforming Food Systems Under a Changing Climate” initiative, led by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, along with other key partners, a number of leading banks and investors will discuss how to move sustainable land-use financing into the mainstream.
Towards ‘Standardising’ Environmental and Social (E&S) Impact
12 Dec 2019
This interactive ‘knowledge marketplace’ event focuses on the “why, what and how” of measuring [both negative and positive] environmental and social impact associated with capital flows to land use. Trying to create consistency in terms of what indicators are important to measure [both negative and positive] impact, how should these be monitored and reported on, […]
Digital summit: Measuring the Impact of Investments on Biodiversity
12 Dec 2019
Bending the curve on our current biodiversity crisis is key to sustainable land use and a healthy planet. In doing so, the private sector will play a crucial role and it must invest on biodiversity. Measuring impact from those investments requires that there are agreed upon methodologies and terminology to familiarize the financial sector with […]
COP 25: Indigenous Women Use Traditional Knowledge to Save River
10 Dec 2019
Naijelijeli Tipap , a Masái from Tanzania and member of the Non-Governmental Indigenous Pastoralist Organizations explains that through Indigenous knowledge, we can adapt to and fight climate change.
8 Facts about Indigenous Peoples
10 Dec 2019
Indigenous Peoples and local communities are bearers of rights and solutions to the climate crisis. 🌿 Sources: United Nations, Global Witness and RRI
The Forest People of the Tomsk Region
10 Dec 2019
In conversation with Daria Egereva, representing the Center for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North at COP 25. Daria is a Selkup activist from the Tomsk region of Russia and talks traditional knowledge and the role of Indigenous women in her region.
In conversation with gender and rights scientists at COP 25
10 Dec 2019
Gender and rights scientists Houria Djoudi and Markus Ihalainen discuss finance, safeguards for gender and rights, measuring progress and more at COP 25 in Madrid.
Impossible Foods debuts in grocery stores in NYC
10 Dec 2019
The senior manager of Impossible Foods’ impact strategy on the molecule that makes the plant-based-meat phenomenon indistinguishable from beef, and how this in turn can reduce emissions and save endangered species.
