More than $750 billion a year in additional global investment in nature will be needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, according to the latest research by the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) and the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3).

Leading experts took part in a GGKP webinar on 6 July to outline solutions for pluging this investment gap, and how policymakers and businesses can value risks and identify financing opportunities for enhancing natural capital and building sustainable economic growth.

Read the summary and catch up on the recording in the link below.

A new report predicting future biomass demand will far outweigh supply urges the EU to use land and biomass more strategically. With a holistic approach to forests to improve their environmental, social and economic benefits, the Climate Smart Forest Economy Program (CSFEP), an innovative initiative from EIT Climate-KIC, The Nature Conservancy, the World Economic Forum, and the World Resources Institute, may be well-positioned to help.

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Thriving mangroves are critical to the future of many of the world’s most vulnerable coastal communities. Rich in biodiversity, they serve as nursery grounds for fish and shellfish, while their roots act as a filter for sediment, cleaning up waterways. One of the planet’s most carbon-rich ecosystems, mangroves also provide natural protection from storm surges and flooding, whose severity is being exacerbated by climate change.

Scientists have typically focused on monitoring how close endangered species are to extinction, regularly updating the severity of the risk on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) red list, which includes iconic wildlife such as the mountain gorilla and rare flowering plants such as the Bayard’s adder’s-mouth orchid.

Now, a new global standard known as the IUCN green status of species will help provide a richer picture of a species’ conservation status by detailing how close it is to recovering its original population size and health.

The Uttarakhand government recently announced it will initiate valuation of its natural resources in the form of ‘Gross Environment Product’ (GEP).

Scottish Water Turning to Ecosystem-based Mitigation

To support states’ technical needs in building and implementing climate action plans — including by developing robust GHG inventories — the U.S. Climate Alliance has convened an “Impact Partnership” of nonprofit organizations with relevant expertise. Through that partnership, a guide for states has been published to develop and improve their GHG inventories with an eye toward one particular sector that has often been shortchanged: natural and working lands (NWL). But to understand why a state-level guide specific to land-based GHG inventories is needed, it’s important to first know what a GHG inventory is, why inventories are produced and how they are created.