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.
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.
This June 2025 report by Pollination highlights the growing importance of nature in investment strategies, with a focus on how institutional investors can engage with the voluntary carbon market. It offers practical tools to assess nature-related risks, dependencies, and opportunities across portfolios.
This June 2024 report by BeZero Carbon reveals that a well‑structured $100 billion global carbon market over the next decade could protect up to 150 million hectares of land (the size of Peru) and support around 17 million jobs, highlighting the immense nature and livelihood benefits of scaling high-integrity carbon markets.
The May 2025 report by Ecosystem Marketplace reveals that the voluntary carbon market is transitioning towards higher quality and integrity, with demand remaining steady despite a 25% drop in transaction volumes. Credit prices fell only 5.5%, and retirements held steady, indicating resilient demand amid market pressures.
This May 2025 report by Abatable sets a new $15 floor price for high-integrity REDD+ credits, citing rising project costs from stricter methodologies. It urges buyers to rethink outdated price expectations to support credible forest conservation.
In October, The UNEP shares its 2024 emissions gap report, highlighting a ‘massive gap between rhetoric and reality’. With the next round of NDCs due for submission in early 2025, the report calls for a serious raising of ambitions. The report states that countries must cut 42 percent of GHG emissions by 2030 and 57 percent by 2035 if the world is to get on track for 1.5°C.
In this explainer released in October 2022, the World Resources Institute explains that carbon markets are currently undervaluing tropical forest carbon credits. Why? They do not account for tropical forests’ non-carbon biophysical processes such as albedo; evapotranspiration, surface roughness and aerosols. Is there a way to accurately reflect these non-carbon benefits and climate mitigation potential in the voluntary carbon market?