🚨 Nearly 9,000 hectares of forest have been cleared by Mennonite communities in Loreto and Ucayali (Peruvian Amazon) over the past seven years. 🌿 This alarming trend mirrors cases like Bolivia, where unchecked Mennonite deforestation reached a staggering 210,000 hectares. 📢 From the Coalition for Sustainable Production, we’ve conducted an in-depth analysis of the environmental, social, and economic impacts of this issue. Our report outlines key recommendations for governments, businesses, and civil society organizations. 🌱 We stand for a low-deforestation Amazon, ensuring supply chains align with sustainability goals. 🌍 It’s up to us to act now. 🤝 Explore the study and its 20+ multi-stakeholder recommendations here: https://lnkd.in/eZdAyw3Z Re:wild, Tropical Forest Alliance, Instituto de la Naturaleza, Tierra y Energía PUCP, Earth Innovation Institute, Conservación Amazónica - ACCA, Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental, Solidaridad Network.
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Just a very interesting analysis about a major contributor to deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon (also happening in Bolivia). Check out this report from Coalición por una Producción Sostenible.
🚨 Nearly 9,000 hectares of forest have been cleared by Mennonite communities in Loreto and Ucayali (Peruvian Amazon) over the past seven years. 🌿 This alarming trend mirrors cases like Bolivia, where unchecked Mennonite deforestation reached a staggering 210,000 hectares. 📢 From the Coalition for Sustainable Production, we’ve conducted an in-depth analysis of the environmental, social, and economic impacts of this issue. Our report outlines key recommendations for governments, businesses, and civil society organizations. 🌱 We stand for a low-deforestation Amazon, ensuring supply chains align with sustainability goals. 🌍 It’s up to us to act now. 🤝 Explore the study and its 20+ multi-stakeholder recommendations here: https://lnkd.in/eZdAyw3Z Re:wild, Tropical Forest Alliance, Instituto de la Naturaleza, Tierra y Energía PUCP, Earth Innovation Institute, Conservación Amazónica - ACCA, Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental, Solidaridad Network.
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“I think we must expand oil palm cultivation. There’s no need to fear deforestation,” he said. “Oil palm is a tree with leaves. It absorbs carbon dioxide.” https://lnkd.in/gADNemAe With dangerous and ignorant leaders in charge, now more than ever, we need to reexamine our relationship with nature, and how losing it will mean losing us. In #Singapore, we've lost 40% of our biodiversity and constant #urbanisation and growth means we're encroaching into #natural #habitats and increasing chances of human-wildlife #conflicts. https://lnkd.in/gbPSinwZ What are you up to this Tuesday? If you have time, please come join us for a panel discussion x Biodiversity Collage Singapore. I'll be moderating the panel with my esteemed panellists hailing from ACRES, SPCA, LUNI Singapore, and academia. Windsor Lim, Asma Quadri, Clarence Eng 黄众望, Sandeep Gulati, and I will be your humble workshop facilitators. Dr Sivasothi N, Anbarasi Boopal, Phui Fun Sabrina Ng, and Abigail C. will be discussing Singapore’s #biodiversity and the ethical treatment of animals, and how to foster community-driven conservation. This session seeks to address urban #wildlife challenges, human-animal coexistence, and #sustainable practices. The discussion also seeks to emphasize collaboration to align #conservation and #welfare efforts with national and global #sustainability goals. Tuesday 21st January @ PALO IT 📍 PALO IT 11 Beach Road Singapore 189675 🕙 6.30pm – 7.15pm – Panel Discussion 🕙 7.30pm – 10.30pm – @Biodiversity Collage Register for just $5 here: https://lu.ma/1j1zramj #sustainability #biodiversity #animalwelfare #conservation
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From 29th-31st May, we convened at Sinal do Vale in Brazil for the Latin America Regional Hub meeting. Anne-Kathrin Zschiegner, Johanna Barba, and members from Caiman, Pantanal, Pousada Trijunção, IBITI | Projeto, Reserva Biológica Huilo Huilo, Senderos (UK) Ltd, Cristalino Lodge and Estancia Pampa Grande shared best practices and set regional priorities to enhance sustainability efforts. Key Takeaways: • Strengthened Connections: Deepened bonds within our hub, fostering a united approach to conservation challenges. • Shared Solutions: Exchanged valuable experiences to address common challenges and enhance our collective strategies. • Defined Priorities: Aligned on focusing our efforts on the region's immense biodiversity assets, guided by the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework goals. Meeting Highlights: Day 1: We focused on deepening our knowledge about each other, our challenges and best practices. Day 2: We highlighted the 4Cs in action during our visit to Sinal do Vale. Despite significant deforestation in the region, Sinal do Vale excels in regenerative landscape management and innovative soil regeneration, transforming 100 acres with 50,000 native trees into thriving agroforests and reforestation sites. Day 3: We engaged in forward-looking dialogues about the future of regenerative tourism, particularly in the field of bioeconomy. Special thanks to Sinal do Vale for hosting this inspiring event. The enthusiasm and valuable insights from all participants were truly appreciated. #InIt4TheLongRun #The4Cs #Sustainability #Conservation #RegenerativeTourism #Biodiversity
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And more big news from #climateweek!
Executive Director, Good Energies | Board President, WRI Brasil | Global Board of Directors, World Resources Institute | Development Board, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
A game-changer: Pará has become the first state in Brazil to sign a $180M LEAF Coalition landmark deal, aimed at supporting efforts to tackle deforestation and providing investment to preserve critical forests and support communities, including benefit sharing with #indigenouspeoples, traditional communities and family farmers. The State of #Pará, which will host to #COP30 in its capital Belém, contains around 25% of the Brazilian #Amazon. Buyers include Amazon, Bayer, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Capgemini, H&M Group, Walmart, and the governments of #Norway, #UnitedKingdom, and #UnitedStates. The agreement provides for the purchase of up to 12 million high-integrity #forest #carbon credits, generated by reductions in #deforestation in Pará over the years 2023 to 2026. Each credit represents one metric tonne of carbon emissions reductions from cuts in deforestation, and will be purchased upon issuance at $15 per ton. The credits will be sold under a forward purchase contract with issuance expected from the fourth quarter of 2025. Additionally, the deal will make a further 7 million credits available for additional corporate buyers, with Emergent anticipating strong levels of demand. Emergent also announced CHANEL and Zurich Insurance as LEAF Coalition participants, bringing the number of LEAF Corporations to over 30. Both have made a commitment to purchase high-integrity carbon credits from other forest governments working with the LEAF Coalition. The #LEAFCoalition was coordinated by Emergent, which got seeded by Good Energies Foundation in 2016 - is a most significant public-private effort to conserve tropical, aimed at high-standard, high-integrity, jurisdiction-led forest protection at massive scale, achieving additionality, permanence and avoidance of leakage. As we celebrate this major milestone, we extend our gratitude to the main architects of this initiative, including Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., Nathaniel Keohane and Ruben Lubowski and Lorenzo Bernasconi. We also praise the current leadership at Emergent, including Eron Bloomgarden and Juliana Santiago, for their determination and vision. As emphasized by LEAF's new Board member, Joaquim Levy: "The LEAF Coalition is an important piece in the efforts to mobilize the finance needed to stop tropical deforestation in its tracks and foster large scale restoration with the support of local people in Brazil and beyond." May this major landmark deal with Pará in #Brazil, alongside recent deals with #Ghana and #CostaRica, indeed inspire other jurisdictions the world over to follow suit! 🙏🏽🌎🌳 For additional details, see link below, or download the press release in the following link:
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A game-changing announcement this week pushing the boundaries of potential benefit and revenue sharing with Indigenous Peoples with sovereign territories, Quilombolas, and traditional communities in a Brazilian Amazonian state that merits healing from layered histories of illegal land grabbing, exotic monocultures and theft of "certified" old growth timber for export. Looking foreward to see what comes next as the coalition of jurisdictional, like private, natural climate solutions investors and buyers eventually might include middle market family offices and businesses in and beyond these jurisdictions? How will this initiative further transform the worldwide possibilities of social inclusion led by indigenous and local community leaders on the frontlines of forest landscape healing for climate resilience and biodiversity? #naturalclimatesolutions #haltdeforestation #restore #benefitsharing #IPLC #landscapehealing #amazon
Executive Director, Good Energies | Board President, WRI Brasil | Global Board of Directors, World Resources Institute | Development Board, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
A game-changer: Pará has become the first state in Brazil to sign a $180M LEAF Coalition landmark deal, aimed at supporting efforts to tackle deforestation and providing investment to preserve critical forests and support communities, including benefit sharing with #indigenouspeoples, traditional communities and family farmers. The State of #Pará, which will host to #COP30 in its capital Belém, contains around 25% of the Brazilian #Amazon. Buyers include Amazon, Bayer, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Capgemini, H&M Group, Walmart, and the governments of #Norway, #UnitedKingdom, and #UnitedStates. The agreement provides for the purchase of up to 12 million high-integrity #forest #carbon credits, generated by reductions in #deforestation in Pará over the years 2023 to 2026. Each credit represents one metric tonne of carbon emissions reductions from cuts in deforestation, and will be purchased upon issuance at $15 per ton. The credits will be sold under a forward purchase contract with issuance expected from the fourth quarter of 2025. Additionally, the deal will make a further 7 million credits available for additional corporate buyers, with Emergent anticipating strong levels of demand. Emergent also announced CHANEL and Zurich Insurance as LEAF Coalition participants, bringing the number of LEAF Corporations to over 30. Both have made a commitment to purchase high-integrity carbon credits from other forest governments working with the LEAF Coalition. The #LEAFCoalition was coordinated by Emergent, which got seeded by Good Energies Foundation in 2016 - is a most significant public-private effort to conserve tropical, aimed at high-standard, high-integrity, jurisdiction-led forest protection at massive scale, achieving additionality, permanence and avoidance of leakage. As we celebrate this major milestone, we extend our gratitude to the main architects of this initiative, including Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., Nathaniel Keohane and Ruben Lubowski and Lorenzo Bernasconi. We also praise the current leadership at Emergent, including Eron Bloomgarden and Juliana Santiago, for their determination and vision. As emphasized by LEAF's new Board member, Joaquim Levy: "The LEAF Coalition is an important piece in the efforts to mobilize the finance needed to stop tropical deforestation in its tracks and foster large scale restoration with the support of local people in Brazil and beyond." May this major landmark deal with Pará in #Brazil, alongside recent deals with #Ghana and #CostaRica, indeed inspire other jurisdictions the world over to follow suit! 🙏🏽🌎🌳 For additional details, see link below, or download the press release in the following link:
Pará signs $180m LEAF Coalition deal – first in Brazil - Emergent
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Meet Guayakí Yerba Mateí: A yerba mate brand pioneering regenerative business practices. Rather than simply aiming to reduce harm, they actively strive to enrich the environment and boost biodiversity. In a time when #sustainability often feels like a buzzword, Guayakí takes a different path by weaving regenerative principles into its core strategy. Interested in how they balance profitability with environmental responsibility? Check out Forbes’ interview with Guayakí's CEO for some insightful perspectives. https://lnkd.in/eEwxHyCN
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“I think we must expand oil palm cultivation. There’s no need to fear deforestation,” he said. “Oil palm is a tree with leaves. It absorbs carbon dioxide.” https://lnkd.in/gADNemAe With dangerous and ignorant leaders in charge, now more than ever, we need to reexamine our relationship with nature, and how losing it will mean losing us. In #Singapore, we've lost 40% of our biodiversity and constant #urbanisation and growth means we're encroaching into #natural #habitats and increasing chances of human-wildlife #conflicts. https://lnkd.in/gbPSinwZ What are you up to this Tuesday? If you have time, please come join us for a panel discussion x Biodiversity Collage Singapore. I'll be moderating the panel with my esteemed panellists hailing from ACRES, SPCA, LUNI Singapore, and academia. Windsor Lim, Asma Quadri, Clarence Eng 黄众望, Sandeep Gulati, and I will be your humble workshop facilitators. Dr Sivasothi N, Anbarasi Boopal, Phui Fun Sabrina Ng, and Abigail C. will be discussing Singapore’s #biodiversity and the ethical treatment of animals, and how to foster community-driven conservation. This session seeks to address urban #wildlife challenges, human-animal coexistence, and #sustainable practices. The discussion also seeks to emphasize collaboration to align #conservation and #welfare efforts with national and global #sustainability goals. Tuesday 21st January @ PALO IT 📍 PALO IT 11 Beach Road Singapore 189675 🕙 6.30pm – 7.15pm – Panel Discussion 🕙 7.30pm – 10.30pm – @Biodiversity Collage Register for just $5 here: https://lu.ma/1j1zramj #sustainability #biodiversity #animalwelfare #conservation
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Tropical forests are vital for life on Earth, harbouring unique biodiversity, regulating the climate, and providing livelihood opportunities for 1.6 billion people. However, unsustainable land use is driving deforestation and degradation at alarming rates. In 2023 Tropenbos International, continued its efforts to reverse this trend by strengthening communities in implementing locally owned solutions for sustainable forest governance and management, benefiting both people and forests. Our 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 highlights our aspirations, key achievements, and the challenges we face as we work towards a brighter future for tropical forests and the communities that depend on them. Thank you for your unwavering support and collaboration! ➡ https://lnkd.in/e7thMUNs Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken | Ministerie van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid en Natuur | Inclusive Green Growth Department | Albert Schenk | Nationale Postcode Loterij | Tropenbos Colombia | Tropenbos RD Congo | IBIF Bolivian Institute of Forest Investigation | Tropenbos Ghana | Tropenbos Indonesia | Tropenbos Suriname | Tropenbos Vietnam | Joost van Montfort | Alphonse MAINDO | Nataly Ascarrunz | Edi Purwanto | Rudi van Kanten | Huu Nghi | Roderick Zagt
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🌍 Happy World Environment Day 🌳 At Jerónimo Martins, we believe in taking action to protect and preserve our planet. Since 2020, we've been investing in the reforestation of the Açor Mountain Range, a project that not only restores natural habitats but also promotes the social and economic development of a region severely affected by wildfires. This initiative brings together the Arganil town council, the Coimbra School of Agriculture and the Jerónimo Martins Group, which is financing the reforestation efforts with five million euros. Through the power of collective action, we aim to: 🌱 Restore native flora and fauna 🌱 Reduce soil erosion 🌱 Enhance carbon sequestration 🌱 Support local communities and biodiversity Join us in celebrating this important day and our ongoing efforts to environmental conservation. 🌿 For more detailed information on this and other sustainability initiatives take a look at our 2023 Annual Report: https://lnkd.in/dkPSQsh3. #JerónimoMartins #WorldEnvironmentDay #OurCodeOurChoices #Sustainability #Reforestation
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🌿 Highlights of Colombian floriculture's sustainability achievements in 2024: This year marked exceptional achievements for Colombian floriculture in sustainability, reinforcing its leadership globally: - In March, the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI) recognized Florverde Sustainable Flowers (FSF) as one of the most comprehensive certifications in the sector. - May saw ASOCOLFLORES honored by the Colombian Congress for efforts in conservation, restoration, and water protection. - In October, ASOCOLFLORES earned first place in the 2024 BritCham Colombia Lazos Sustainability Awards for its biodiversity action projects and innovative water management systems. - At COP16 Colombia in Cali, the sector presented advances aligned with global biodiversity goals, highlighting the conservation of over 200 bird species. - The American Floral Endowment celebrated 20 years of Ceniflores’ contributions to research and innovation. - Through events like Dianthus Week and global showcases in Holland, Ecuador, Japan, and Korea, the brand #FlowersOfColombia continued to shine for its quality and diversity. - Programs like “Cultivemos la Paz en Familia” demonstrated a strong social commitment, empowering over 60,000 rural families. 📖 Read the full article to explore all the milestones: https://lnkd.in/eZT-iPRQ Source: Portafolio - Sostenibilidad Photo: PROCOLOMBIA
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