RT by @EU_EESC: 🟢Public & private finance must align for biodiversity & phase out harmful subsidies🌱

#NatureCredits can help but only with strong integrity, science-based rules & transparent, inclusive governance

Our member @Arnaud_Schwartz is #ReportingFromPlenary

👉http://link.europa.eu/3kWWYJ

🟢Public & private finance must align for biodiversity & phase out harmful subsidies🌱

#NatureCredits can help but only with strong integrity, science-based ...
---
https://nitter.net/EESC_PRESS/status/2024438487697539452#m

Roadmap towards Nature Credits

The EU Youth Test at the EESC was applied to this opinion. The European Youth Parliament for Water (EYPW) was chosen by a group of interested youth organisations to represent all of them during the opinion-making process.Key PointsThe EESC calls on the European Commission to:

European Economic and Social Committee

We call on the @EU_Commission for:
☘️ aligned public & private funds to reach global #biodiversity targets - phase out harmful subsidies as a priority;
☘️ integrity, science & safeguards for real ecological impact;
☘️ inclusive governance.
http://link.europa.eu/3kWWYJ

#NatureCredits
---
https://nitter.net/EU_EESC/status/2024406811290275999#m

Roadmap towards Nature Credits

The EU Youth Test at the EESC was applied to this opinion. The European Youth Parliament for Water (EYPW) was chosen by a group of interested youth organisations to represent all of them during the opinion-making process.Key PointsThe EESC calls on the European Commission to:

European Economic and Social Committee
#NatureCredits won’t save nature, they’ll commodify it. We can’t keep inviting markets to 'fix' what they helped destroy. The carbon credits fiasco is proof enough So why is the EU Commission pushing this? Read our 🆕 study with @[email protected] on the motivations & interest groups behind it👇

Selling Nature: the EU's role ...
Selling Nature: the EU's role in creating markets for biodiversity

As the ecological crisis accelerates, the EU is promoting “nature credits” as a supposed solution – inviting markets to help fix what markets have helped destroy. Forests, wetlands, coastlines and farmlands are being reframed as financial assets: quantified, packaged and traded. This new report published with the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation investigates the European Commission’s plans, …

Friends of the Earth Europe
💳 The EU Commission pushes #NatureCredits to attract private investment for #biodiversity protection. But who benefits, bears the risks, what does it mean for environmental governance? Join our event with @[email protected] & MEP @[email protected] 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

€65B EU biodiversity gap

🪵 $125B forest fund under pressure

💰 $70/tonne ARR premiums

🌍 7 countries testing forest finance futures

#VCM #Sweden #Nigeria #Liberia #EU #naturecredits #ARR

https://groundtruth.app/assisted-migration-nature-credits-nigerian-farms/

Assisted Migration, Nature Credits & Nigerian Farms

The forest finance weekly: pilots in Liberia, credits in India, new funds in Brazil, and carbon bets in Nigeria.

Ground Truth
Bit silent here as it's the last hours before the break, with still lots to do: i.a. checking various over-summer consultations @EUCommission, e.g. @jessikaroswall on an env #omnibus (we must not allow deregulation) or on #NatureCredits (can't replace missing nature money in the #MFF)!

🌳 💸 This week’s nature finance roundup has it all: oyster credits, mango-powered carbon markets, and the EU’s attempt to price biodiversity like Bitcoin.🧮
#climatefinance #naturecredits #carbonmarkets

https://groundtruth.app/mangrove-math-co2-cuts-the-11-49-climate-fix/

Mangrove Math, CO₂ Cuts & the $11.49 Climate Fix

A round-up of major updates in the world of forest finance—from global mangrove restoration costs and Europe's Nature Credits roadmap to Brazil's $141B reforestation potential and reforestation’s double-counting dilemma.

Ground Truth
Heard about #NatureCredits but still unsure what they are? If you speak German & you have access to @tagesspiegel.de, then read this great piece by @ehrenha.bsky.social 🧐 It unpacks what they are, and why we think they're a cover for inaction 👇 background.tagesspiegel.de/agrar-und-er...

Fahrplan der EU-Kommission für...
Tagesspiegel (@tagesspiegel.de)

Das Leitmedium auf Bluesky

Bluesky Social
Quite busy day for @EUCommission DG ENV @EU_ENV today: While everyone waiting for the big #EUBudget bang, @jessikaroswall's team bringing out today:
⚖️ the #EIR report about the state of environmental (non) implementation.
🏷 the Roadmap for #NatureCredits.
Stay tuned! #EUGreenDeal