N4C Weekly Brief | APR 3-9

N4C NEWS

The naturebase team shares new research on how to effectively communicate with government officials and policy advisors about natural climate solutions based on interviews conducted with key stakeholders in Brazil, India and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a recent briefing, the team shared their findings and a new report now available to download.

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Top nature news:

• 'A ray of hope': Forest destruction in Brazil and Colombia has fallen 'dramatically' - Sky News
• Carbon Credits Market to Get a Huge Boost as Rules Relaxed - Bloomberg
• How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain - The New York Times

POSITIVE NATURE STORIES

How to ‘stop mining before it starts’: Interview with community organizer Carlos Zorrilla

Carlos Zorrilla is a leader in what locals say is the longest continuous resistance movement against mining in Latin America. Zorrilla and the organizations he co-founded, including DECOIN (Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag), helped block five transnational mining companies and a national company from developing operations in one of the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. In the process, Zorrilla and community members say they faced personal threats, smear campaigns, arrests and violence. But the movement also notched historic wins, including a constitutional case upholding the rights of nature against Chilean state-owned miner Codelco and the Ecuadorian national mining company in 2023.

Case Study of the Week - Community-led Restoration of Native Remnant Forests in Amhara

WHERE: AMHARA, ETHIOPIA

TYPE OF NCS SOLUTION: RESTORE  

In the Gewocha Forest and its surrounding communities, inadequate farm and grazing land management has resulted in soil degradation and decreased land productivity. This project works to re-establish the structure, species diversity, and density of the highly degraded forest, with the goal of rehabilitating 1143 ha of land. Organizers are collaborating with 14 local communities to introduce agroforestry practices on smallholder farmland.  So far, 670 ha are under restoration, growing 479,264 trees. 

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For your information:

Rights and Resources Initiative and Rainforest Foundation Norway release the new Path to Scale dashboard, a new open-source online tool that gives easy access to donor funding data for Indigenous Peoples’, Afro-descendant Peoples’, and local communities’ tenure and forest guardianship.

UN Environment Programme releases the 2024 Climate Risk Landscape Report, which serves as a comprehensive resource delving into the available tools for financial institutions to assess physical and transition climate risks and boost their institution’s resilience to related impacts.  

WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development shares the second edition of the Land Use Finance quarterly newsletter, created to provide highlights and news from the Forest Investor Club (FIC) and Forest Finance Risk Consortium (FFRC), and their members and partners.  

World Resources Institute shares an update to Forest Pulse, which draws on the most recent data and analysis to reveal the latest trends in global forest loss and deforestation. Updated data shows that while deforestation decreased in Brazil and Colombia, overall deforestation has remained consistent. 

Youth4Nature shares case studies, major wins, and impacts from their climate education bootcamp, demonstrating how implementing nature-based solutions should include people, especially the frontline communities.

Nature Jobs & Opportunities:

• Carbon Offset Market Analysis - Snoqualmie Indian Tribe
• Blue Carbon Technical Director - Conservation International
• Director, Blue Carbon Positive Business Models - Conservation International
• Spatial Research Analyst - Earth Insight
• Senior Coordinator, Carbon Markets and Climate Policy - Conservation International
• Senior Associate - NatureFinance 
• Director, Climate Philanthropy - Global Intelligence - ClimateWorks Foundation
• Director of Legal Research and Litigation - Harvest
• Sustainability Editor - Politico
• Finance & Grants Officer - Climate Action Network
• CEO – Arusha - Carbon Tanzania
• VCM Policy Director - IETA

NUMBER OF THE WEEK - 7.5 MtCO2e/yr

The annual carbon dioxide emissions that could be avoided by Colombia meeting its potential to avoid forest conversion by 2050.  New data on global deforestation in 2023 shows that Colombia has made positive progress in reducing deforestation by 49 percent compared to 2022. See more details on the potential for natural climate solutions in N4C's naturebase.

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