This second edition guide provides practical steps for governments to include blue carbon ecosystems in their NDCs. It outlines key policy levers, data requirements, and enabling conditions for integrating coastal wetlands into national mitigation and adaptation strategies under the Paris Agreement.
GFI and WWF’s 2025 report makes the business case for investing in nature to strengthen the UK’s economic resilience. It outlines practical investment opportunities across sectors, policy levers to unlock capital, and steps for business to align nature action with national economic goals.
Forest Trends and The Nature Conservancy’s 2025 report tracks $49B in global investment in nature-based solutions for water. Africa leads on growth. Public finance dominates, but private capital is rising. Key recommendations focus on scaling durable, equitable finance for water resilience and nature.
In this practical guide, VCMI outlines how countries can build the enabling environments needed to access carbon markets credibly and effectively. The toolkit includes an Access Framework with indicators across governance, safeguards, finance, data, and policy. It helps users identify capacity gaps, prioritize investments, and coordinate across ministries. Developed with a focus on equity and climate ambition, the toolkit is designed to support implementation of Article 6 and the transition toward high-integrity, country-driven carbon market participation.
In this brief, the European Forest Institute outlines key risks facing biodiversity credit market, such as weak baselines, permanence gaps, and vague metrics. It proposes science-based safeguards, governance standards, and policy roles to ensure integrity and avoid repeating carbon market failures.
This Ramboll report draws on deep interviews with over 30 companies to understand the barriers to effective Scope 3 emissions reduction. It identifies persistent implementation challenges, from poor data visibility and supplier coordination to weak financing and reporting standards. Many companies struggle to move beyond targets to real reductions, especially in complex, global value chains. The report offers priority actions for business and policymakers, including clearer accounting rules, capacity support, financing instruments, and cross-sectoral collaboration to close the action gap on Scope 3.
The Carbon Crediting Data Framework (CCDF) proposes a standardized schema for core carbon crediting data. Developed by RMI with ecosystem input, it supports transparency, lowers transaction costs, and enables cross-platform interoperability. The framework addresses project metadata, MRV inputs, risk disclosures, and monitoring outputs. By reducing duplicated due diligence, currently consuming 60%+ of some teams’ time, it allows stakeholders to more efficiently assess credit quality. The CCDF lays the groundwork for more automated, trusted digital carbon markets.
The World Bank’s Carbon Markets Infrastructure Working Group sets out governance priorities for scaling carbon markets. The note provides recommendations on institutional roles, regulatory oversight, data integrity, and accountability, outlining a foundational framework for resilient market infrastructure.
This policy brief from the European Forest Institute outlines how biodiversity can enhance forest resilience amid climate-driven disturbances. It offers guidance for policymakers and forest managers on using species diversity, structural complexity, and novel management approaches to stabilise ecosystems.
Magnitude Global Finance and partners explore how microfinance can scale mangrove-positive enterprises. The report outlines key barriers, proposes solutions, and highlights community-led models from Indonesia and Sri Lanka that link conservation with inclusive finance, gender equity, and climate resilience.