N4C Weekly Brief | MAY 8 - 14
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Join naturebase for two upcoming webinar series focused on helping decision-makers and implementers find the data they need to make their NCS efforts successful! Each webinar will be hosted multiple times with limited registration so practitioners around the world can engage directly with the naturebase to receive guidance on how to use this powerful new set of tools.
Join this webinar if you are a company, financial institution, NGO or engaged in supporting Indigenous Peoples in developing or exploring the potential to use NCS as part of your investment strategies, land management, or climate impact mitigation efforts. This webinar will demonstrate the benefit of using naturebase to deliver on these nature-based investment and sustainability strategies. Sessions Hosted: May 21st, June 3rd, and June 4th
Join this webinar if you are a policy maker or influencer seeking ways to deliver positive biodiversity and climate outcomes through interventions on land, driven by policy, plans or practical action. Learn through this webinar how to identify what your country or region can achieve through various nature-based protection, restoration, and land management pathways, identifying where to implement these solutions and what the carbon potential could be.
Sessions Hosted: May 20th, May 21st, and June 4th
Top nature news:
POSITIVE NATURE STORIES
Sponsoring an endangered animal has long been a way for people to contribute to the conservation of at-risk species like tigers and pandas. Now, a program is encouraging the public to sponsor parcels of endangered ocean. Last year, the tiny South Pacific nation of Niue marked its surrounding ocean—about the size of Malaysia—into 127,000 zones and declared them open for sponsorship. With a quick online purchase of about $150, anyone can chip in to protect a part of the earth’s seas. This program is the winner of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award in the nature category.
Case Study of the Week - Valuing Blue Carbon in the Kaimana MPA
WHERE: KAIMANA, PAPUA, INDONESIA
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TYPE OF NCS SOLUTION: MANAGE
This project builds on established marine and coastal conservation work in the mangrove-rich areas of Kaimana, Papua and compliments on-going efforts to integrate blue carbon into policy and management decisions. The project hopes to show that coastal blue carbon provides a new opportunity for driving and supporting coastal ecosystem conservation within Indonesia, and for sustaining the multiple benefits these ecosystems provide.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
UNEP shares a World Environment Day practical guide designed to help get everyone involved in ecosystem restoration organized into several chapters, such as food systems, freshwater ecosystems, and human habitats.
World Wildlife Fund releases an episode about a piece of legislation currently pending in the US Congress that could make a big difference for global forest conservation: the FOREST Act. This bill would create new requirements and incentives for companies to ensure that the products they import into the US are not associated with illegal deforestation.
IUCN releases a report assessing the future environmental, economic and social impact of the production, trade and the consumption of vegetable oils.
The Nature Conservancy publishes the Nature-Based Credit Science Decoder Series, a set of explainers on current scientific best practices and gaps for carbon projects developed in seven common natural climate solutions pathways.
Restor announces that it has added a new data layer created by Meta and the World Resources Institute that uses an AI model to map global tree heights.
Wetlands International shares a policy brief outlining recommendations for opportunities for the UNFCCC to advance coastal NbS within ongoing processes and negotiations.
The Nature Conservancy publishes a global evidence map of human well-being and the biodiversity co-benefits and trade-offs of natural climate solutions.
Woodwell Climate Research Center launches a new 6-year initiative, the Evolving Meta-Ecosystems (EvoME) Institute, which focuses on improving scientific and public understanding of how ecosystems are responding—and will continue to respond—to a rapidly changing climate.
Nature Jobs & Opportunities:
NUMBER OF THE WEEK - 36 MtCO2e/yr
The annual carbon dioxide emissions that could be sequestered by Malaysia if it meets its potential for reforestation by 2050. See more details on the potential for natural climate solutions in N4C's naturebase.
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