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.

Explore transformational potential and best practices of nature based-solutions (NbS) from cities around the world in this new UNEP G20 report. Share your municipal initiatives for NbS here!

Carbon “sinks”, such as forests or the ocean, play a crucial role in absorbing atmospheric CO2 and thereby reducing the damages caused by climate change and the emissions that drive it.

Dr. Wilfried Rickels and Prof. Martin Quaas's findings show that Australia, Indonesia and Cuba contribute the largest blue-carbon net “wealth” to the rest of the world. However, only a handful of countries have enough blue carbon potential to offset their entire carbon footprint.

For millions of people across the Americas and around the world, a vacation often means a visit to a national park. National parks can be a source of great national pride, a way to showcase unique landscapes and educate visitors about an area's flora and fauna, history, and culture. It also can be an important source of revenue that national parks and protected areas provide benefits equivalent to 3% of GDP.
However, the national parks and other protected areas are threatened by air pollution or encroaching development—they are now confronting intensifying threats due to climate change.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) have launched a call for proposals to identify a technical partner to apply robust natural capital methods, support data collection and generate convincing results to influence infrastructure decision making in African development finance.

There are two AfDB infrastructure projects in Mozambique and Madagascar for which proposals are requested. One proposal for each country will be selected in this round.

French and Portuguese versions of the request for proposals (RfPs) are available.

Hamburg Using Nature to Purify its Water

Biodiversity loss is a risk to the global financial system

'Just as financial institutions have a responsibility to ensure that they are not a conduit for money used to do harm through criminal activity, there is a growing sense that the finance sector has a responsibility to manage the economic risks associated with nature degradation – and ensure they are not a conduit for finance that is destroying nature.

On 6 July (3-4pm CEST), join the GGKP webinar, “Closing the Financing Gap: Investing in Natural Capital to Achieve the SDGs.”

We will hear from experts with deep inside knowledge on the implementing solutions to plugging the natural capital investment gap. A panel discussion will focus on the financing opportunities for enhancing ecosystem services that nature provides during this strained time of economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speakers:
- Janez Potočnik, former European Commissioner for the Environment; Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel and Partner at SYSTEMIQ

- Elizabeth M. White, Principal Strategist-Sustainability, Sector Economics and Development Impact, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

- Simon Zadek, Chair of Finance for Biodiversity (F4B) and Director of Migrant Nation.

- Ivo Mulder, Head (a.i), Climate Finance Unit (UNEP CFU), Ecosystem Division, UN Environment Programme

- Anil Markandya, Ikerbasque Professor, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)