We find that EU's €37bn biodiversity funding gap could be closed entirely by redirecting existing subsidies to harmful activities; While we understand the political trade-offs that led to choosing instead to privatise and financialise EU's conservation policies, we find that "making nature investable" is not compatible with the public good nature of most ecosystems and …
High integrity in name only?
The IAPB, UN and WEF have just released the final version of their high integrity principles to guide the biodiversity credit market. We find that while the report includes many well-meaning boilerplate statements, many critical concerns remain unaddressed and several features contradict the high integrity claims. We find that the allowance for offsetting, for the …
GFO’s response to the calll for evidence on the review of EU’s carbon market
We find that the call for evidence: Fails to ask input on a crucial weakness of the EU ETS, namely the weakness of the price signal due to excess price volatility, when such an issue could be easily addressed, just as it already is for agricultural commodity prices; Seems to focus in large part on …
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