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We can't expect to have emerging markets if we don't have traditional markets for wood. The closure of Pyramid Mountain Lumber is hitting me harder than all the previous closures, perhaps because of how hard they worked to stay open all these years. It may not be a popular opinion, but we need USDA Forest Service to have a real stake in the maintenance and growth of the wood products industry. But not just USDA, the States (Idaho and Montana), Counties, corporate owners like Green Diamond Resource Company, Stimson Lumber Company and others have much to gain from keeping mills open. We need new models of ownership to ensure a viable forest industry into the future.

When it comes to maximizing the climate mitigation potential of our country's (and the world's) family forest owners, public-private partnership is key. Enter: the Forest Landowner Support Program (FLS), a historic opportunity for organizations to partner with states to equip underserved and small-acreage forest landowners with the tools to care for their lands and maximize their conservation impact. But how can public funding truly catalyze private investment? Read on here: https://lnkd.in/enWkbqjG

The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and Green Bonds are pivotal financial mechanisms designed to address environmental and climate challenges. However, due to their overlapping goals and the complexity of international climate finance, there is often confusion about their distinct roles and operations. The GCF primarily focuses on aiding developing countries in combating climate change, while the GEF addresses a broader range of global environmental issues. Green Bonds, on the other hand, are market-driven instruments used to finance environmentally friendly projects. The following table provides a clear comparison to distinguish between these three mechanisms. Green Climate Fund #climatechange #climatefinance #GEF #GCF #greenbond Neufin

“Through FLS, states can partner with projects like the Family Forest Carbon Program to unlock landowners’ access to the voluntary #carbon market, opening the door to public and private investment in their #forests and local #economies. This means leveraging not only the $500 million government investment in FLS, but also billions of dollars in private sector investments in carbon projects that help #family forest owners to steward their lands, enabling initial federal funding to go even further and for longer. What would typically be one-off government grants for a few years turn into decades of technical and financial support for landowners to care for the health and wellbeing of their forests, increasing the value of their lands for generations. FLS funding empowers states to increase their capacity, efficiency, reach, and #impact. With this support, partnering states can focus their staff capacity on working directly with #landowners, forgoing the need to hire additional staff or take on the administrative burden of issuing cost share payments, monitoring, and other tasks. This public-private #partnership also lengthens the time that landowners are provided support. State programs alone typically provide three to five years of funding support to landowners. But partnering with projects leveraging private #investment expands their support to the 20 to 30 years that landowners are enrolled in the project.” We are already putting this work to ground! Don’t get left out of this remarkable opportunity. If you work with state forests, please consider contacting my friend and colleague Beth Riley for more information.

For everyone who everyone who missed our sessions at the recent American Public Works Association PWX and New England Chapter conferences, we wanted to share a worksheet that participants received to create their own Climate Action (or Climate-Ready or Climate Innovation) Framework. We use this tool with clients (like our conference co-presenters at Town of Cary and Town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) to help integrate sustainability, climate, and resilience considerations across all operations in alignment with your community’s priorities and values. So, for example, when your local government is considering a new infrastructure investment, use the Framework for a more informed decision to ensure it reflects and supports your climate goals. Check it out and download a copy of the worksheet to see how you could apply the framework to give your climate plans staying power. #PWX2025 #NEAPWA #climateactiontool #localclimateaction #climateactionplan https://hubs.ly/Q02Wlxmz0

World Bank Land Conference Session Policies to secure land tenure in land-intensive climate action Date and time: 5/14/24  9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. ET Location: Preston Speakers/Focal Points/Chairs Joan Carling, Kate Dooley, Christoph Kubitza, Jann Lay, Raymond Achu Samndong, Matt Sommerville, Johanna Von Braun Description While large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in the Global South for agricultural production that took off around 2009-2010 have slowed down in recent years, new types of land deals are gaining importance in the wake of global climate action. The energy transition will need considerable areas of land to set up wind parks and solar farms. In addition, a recent report estimates that about 1 billion ha of land is required to meet the projected biological carbon removal in national climate pledges and commitments. The LSLAs for agricultural production that took place in the past two recent decades had mostly sobering socioeconomic impacts and led to severe human rights violations. With increasing land demand for climate mitigation, it is essential to make sure that climate action does not result in “green grabbing” but achieves a “just transition” by implementing safeguards on national and international levels that prevent potential harm. This becomes even more critical since governments can present land-intensive climate action as a national priority, allowing them to bypass certain safeguards. This means that customary tenure systems need to be better secured in order to promote the development of sustainable food systems, resilient livelihoods, and, at the same time, effective climate action and energy systems. In our session, we hence seek to assess the extent of intended investments in land-intensive climate action as well as review the impacts on the livelihoods and tenure of local communities. We will also discuss how far the lessons learned from the global land rush are applicable or are already put into action. 

📰IN THE NEWS - Banking on Oregon forests: in fight against climate change, financial markets see Oregon's green    “In Oregon, two dozen projects encompassing more than 1.3 million acres of forest are listed in [ACR’s registry], the first voluntary greenhouse gas registry in the world that monitors projects and issues carbon credits. These forests have all been added to the registry in just the last 10 years, and 20 of those projects were added in just the last four years.”    Read more in this article from The Oregon Capitol Chronicle: https://lnkd.in/gyUCcg95

If you are interested in learning more about climate, how our actions impact it and the interconnectedness of climate, consider attending a climate fresk. Such a good experience!

It's almost that time! 👀 Next week, the EPA will award $20B of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to expand green lending opportunities for communities across the U.S. – especially those hardest hit by climate change. 🎉 Here's what to expect from the national green financing network that will be announced next week 👇 https://lnkd.in/ewxjTRRu

If I build a coal-fired power station or an airport today, how likely is it, that within the next ten years, I will be directly involved in or impacted by climate-related litigation, regulation or legislation and suffer significant financial and reputational damage as a result? Lawyers operating in this space must consider these sorts of risks when advising their clients. Helping those who work at a law firm to better understand the many and varied implications of climate change, was one of the reasons I was so pleased to deliver Climate Fresk UK workshops for Clyde & Co. The workshop deepens participants' appreciation of all the interconnections in climate change and its very human causes and consequences. It's a great way to open up a conversation about where the many risks and opportunities lie. Thanks to Paddy Linighan and Robyn Hornsby for the warm welcome and thank you to all the participants online and face-to-face for your openness and enthusiasm. I’m looking forward to working more with Clyde & Co to find ways of making the learning from the Climate Fresk stick. We’re also going to collaborate on a game-based workshop that looks in detail at how we might get to net zero by 2050, from the point of view of governments and businesses. (Current working title “Journeys to Net Zero”). More on this soon! #climatelitigation #climatefresk #climaterisk #climateeducation #journeystonetzero Lucia Williams, Sarah Hill-Smith, Miranda Bruce, Oliver Wright, Naomi Boachie-Ansah, Hamish Groombridge, Callie Massey, Nigel Brook, Alicia Dear, Pui Sum Wong, MSc, Harsh Amarasuriya, Sateesh Revanur