climate-nature nexus
A global biodiversity progress report, an audit of India’s flagship restoration mission, Canada’s stalled 30% target, and UN verification of Costa Rica’s forest results all landed in one week: the system is now publishing the gap between commitment and delivery.
climate-nature nexus
Canada launched a natural-capital taskforce, Global Witness traced USD 31 billion in sustainability-linked loans to palm-oil firms facing deforestation allegations, and a Caribbean pilot turned a storm index into a payout. The question is not what finance is called, but what its rules capture.
climate-nature nexus
Australia's carbon-crediting regulator kept the soil-carbon method but recommended withholding credits above a conservatism ceiling. The week's evidence turned on a practitioner question: how a methodology decision affects project economics.
climate-nature nexus
Five announcements placed capital at five different points in the chain from project preparation to verified outcome, and each disclosed only its own link.
climate-nature nexus
Multilateral development banks reported record 2025 climate-finance commitments, yet developments in the Pacific and Vietnam underscored why access, financing terms, and delivery governance still determine whether capital translates into resilience and conservation.
climate-nature nexus
The distributional question shifted this week from principle to plumbing, as the Philippines incorporated a national nature-based solutions framework into an administrative order and the evidence hardened on whether capital labeled for nature, public or private, conserves anything at all.
climate-nature nexus
After London’s marquee week, the field’s question turned from whether nature is investable to who benefits, who decides, and who pays.
climate-nature nexus
Climate and nature became one agenda this week: in the language, not yet on the ledger
climate-nature nexus
Nature stopped being a risk to disclose and became a resilience asset to underwrite
climate-nature nexus
Nature Finance spent the week building its plumbing, not its pitch
climate-nature nexus
Nature is an asset class that can’t agree on its own size: The constraint is no longer whether nature is investable, but whether any figure survives being quoted twice.
climate-nature nexus
The week capital stopped pretending that nature was a separate ledger