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With UN Convention to Combat Desertification #COP16 starting today in #Riyadh we are proud to share this project we're working on helping to bring hope by restoring lands and pushing back the desert! Watch Andrew Millison's first of four videos on the Great Green Wall, the enormous #restoration project stretching across the #Sahel region of #Africa to push back the desert, harvest rainwater, increasing food security and regenerate ecosystems. It showcases everything great about nature-based solutions, serving as a climate mitigation project removing gigatonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere as well as a peacebuilding project. Here we zoom in on Niger, where the amazing transformation can already be seen. 🌱 Landscape Scale Restoration: Locally led adaptable techniques from grasslands to trees, that are already restoring community lands right across the continent. 💧🛰️Ancient Techniques, Amplified by Technology: "half moon bunds" are a technique indigenous to the Sahel, capturing scarce water and restoring lands, while remote sensing scales planning, demonstrates impact, and enables learning and adaptation. 🌍 Climate Change adaptation and Biodiversity Uplift: High Quality Carbon Dioxide Removal from the atmosphere that cools the local area and increases habitat creating a net gain for biodiversity. 🌾 Food security: Directly increasing feed for pastoralist communities while improving water resources for communities and farmers far beyond the project area, increasing yields, health and nutrition and decreasing dependence on food aid. 🤝 Environmental Peacebuilding: Empowering communities and increasing resilience while reducing the stressors that have led to conflict in the region. We are proud to work with Andrew Millison to provide communications material for this series and with the World Food Programme to measure report and verify the impacts of their work at local and landscape level, learn and improve, and unlock both development assistance and carbon financing for their projects. If you are interested in supporting these projects reach out! We will gladly connect you projects carrying out community-based ecosystem restoration projects removing carbon in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. As part of the World Economic Forum Great Green Wall Working Group and a 1t.org innovator, we have had the privilege to advise other organisations and recommend following Tree Aid to read the report that will be launched tomorrow on carbon financing for the Great Green Wall Watch Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project! below and follow Andrew's youtube channel to watch the rest of the series. https://lnkd.in/eXCkicwn Are you attending COP16? Let us know below and meet the team! #SoilHealth #WaterHealth #ClimateAction #UNCCDCOP16 #COP16RIYADH #Youth4Soil #COPSoil #CDR #CarbonRemoval EDIT: For clarity, any before and after images are from the same season, but different years. Wet season is not being compared with dry season.

Water security, environmental peacebuilding, tech innovation, carbon removal, restoration and carbon markets. It all comes together in the soil and at #COP29 We were honoured to be invited to the blue zone of #COP29Baku to showcase our technology and projects with WFP in the Kurdistan Region Iraq as well as our work on mangrove restoration. By restoring 40,000 hectares of land and 20,000 hectares of mangroves with local communities through nature-based solutions and native species, not only is CO2 being removed and durably stored, but water and food security are improved throughout the region. Thank you to Antonella Ferraina Eero Wahlstedt Joona Mikkola for their intense work on these projects and to our partners for making this happen. #carbonremoval #restoration #article6 #naturebasedsolutions #water #sdgs

Thank you, CDR.fyi! Exciting updates from COP29 on international carbon markets. Achieving net-negative emissions demands a dual approach: cutting emissions and removing carbon. Nature is our greatest ally in climate change mitigation and adaptation 🌍💙 #carbonremoval #greentech #climatetech #carbonmarkets #cop29 #naturebasedsolutions

🇫🇮 Fantastic Finland: A Growing Hub for Carbon Removal With 7 companies and 6 projects, Finland is emerging as a key player in durable carbon removal—not just in the Nordic region, but across Europe. 📈 Finland’s ambitious climate plan aims for net zero by 2035, targeting the removal of 21Mt of CO₂e by then. Biochar dominates its CDR market, with Finnish suppliers selling over 28,000 tonnes by the end of Q3 2024. The country also leads in research and innovation, driving CDR advancements alongside its Nordic neighbors. 🌍 From global CDR registry Puro.earth to Carbo Culture, home to one of Europe’s largest biochar plants with a capacity of 3,000 tonnes per year, Finland is setting benchmarks for scaling global carbon removal. 🤝 Notably, Carbofex was the first supplier in CDR.fyi's database, recording a transaction of 100 tonnes of CDR with Swiss Re over five years ago. 🙌 A big shoutout to Finnish innovators like Carbonaide, Soletair Power, Nordic Impact Oy, Soilwatch, and Ekovilla Oy for their vital contributions to the CDR ecosystem. 📌 Earlier this year, we launched a new feature allowing organizations to map their CDR projects and facilities. Learn more and add your project locations through the CDR.fyi Portal: https://lnkd.in/gee37U2n

Nordic businesses call for high global climate ambition, global CO2 pricing and rapid technology deployment at COP29. Join the event in the Nordic pavilion (C13)/livestream on Nov 16 at 11:00 with high-level keynote by Tore Sandvik, Minister of Climate & Environment of Norway: https://lnkd.in/dF2z6jwZ. Nordic business organizations Danish Industry, Elinkeinoelämän keskusliitto EK – Confederation of Finnish Industries, NHO and Svenskt Näringsliv release their COP29 position, followed by a panel discussion focusing on the Nordic businesses climate ambition, role of policy and private sector collaboration with Tony D'Arcy from Nokia Corporation, Carmen Navarro from A.P. Moller Capital, Annika Ramsköld from Vattenfall and Astrid Rusås Kristoffersen from DNV.

We are humbled to have been invited to attend #COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Follow the page for more information about the events we are speaking at and comment below and reach out if you're there so we can meet! Together with World Food Programme we'll be speaking on the topics of leveraging Nature-based Solutions for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal, and how climate financing can help build food security on the frontlines of the climate emergency. Our team will be on hand supporting government officials from partner countries giving live demonstrations with our tools to monitor, measure, report and verify the impacts of forestry, mangrove, regenerative agriculture and soil restoration projects in their countries, including how much carbon is removed and the impact on securing water resources. We'll be discussing our work and the opportunities for supporting life changing activities through #insetting, under #article6 and more, all while being committed to truly scientific, transparent methods, leveraging the latest advancements in technology and research. Stay tuned for more details on those events, and Lets Connect! 🤝 #ClimateAction #CarbonRemoval #COP29Baku #GreatGreenWall

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At SoilWatch, we've been working hard to build integrated approaches and bringing in multiple stakeholders to create urgently needed impact. Great discussions through Team Finland Kenya and more to follow 💪 Stay tuned 👂

A UN expert group comes to an agreement of key elements of an international carbon trading system. The 12-strong group includes also representatives from the EU and Saudi-Arabia who have traditionally opposed in climate policy. Citing Eve Tamme, the unilateral adoption of the framework this week by the UN body made the international carbon market "basically operational". Functioning international carbon markets can help to fund climate change mitigation and adaptation projects in poorer countries. #climatefinance #carbonpricing #cop29 #climatechange #carboncapture #climatetech #sustainabledevelopment https://lnkd.in/g9sn9AqU