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Nature & Biodiversity Pulse Newsletter: Thursday May 7, 2026: open letter to Indonesia’s biodiversity credits technical team

Agence Europe – Green Finance Observatory rejects creation of European ‘nature credits’ market, on which European Commission is already working

Heidi News – Faudra-t-il privatiser la nature sauvage pour la sauver?

Mongabay – COP30 tropical forest fund may drive debt and deforestation, groups warn

Carbon brief – Cropped 5 November 2025: Nature finance at COP30; Storms devastate crops; Brazilian deforestation decline

Carbon brief – COP30: Could Brazil’s ‘Tropical Forest Forever’ fund help tackle climate change?

Le Monde – « Le dilemme » : peut-on se racheter une conscience à coups de compensation carbone ?

The St Andrews Economist – Biodiversity for Sale: Can Markets Really Save the UK’s Ecosystems?

Charlie Hebdo – les crédits nature, l’arnaque à l’échelle européenne

Agence Europe – Green Finance Observatory rejects creation of European ‘nature credits’ market, on which European Commission is already working

NewScientist – Could a $125 billion investment fund halt global deforestation?

Bloomberg – Brazil Pins Hopes for Forests on Unlikely Savior: Wall Street

Libération – «Aux Etats-Unis, les entreprises estiment que le coût lié aux engagements dans la finance verte est supérieur aux gains»

DeSmog – Cifra récord de empresarios en la Cumbre de Biodiversidad de la ONU

RFI – Le gaz naturel: un marché en plein essor

Mongabay newscast – What’s the TFFF? A forest finance tool ‘like no other’ shows promise, pitfalls

Eco-Business – Biodiversity credit initiatives face rising scrutiny, scepticism

Mongabay – Biodiversity credit approaches multiply as concerns cloud confidence

DeSmog – Business Lobby Reached Record High at UN Biodiversity Talks

CarbonBrief – Cropped 30 October 2024: The state of play at COP16

Agence Europe – Proposed biodiversity credit framework unveiled at COP16 divides observers

Le Monde – A la COP 16 de Cali, les « crédits biodiversité », outil financier controversé en discussion

Novethic – COP16 : Cap sur les crédits biodiversité, en pleine crise des crédits carbone

Reporterre – L’économie peut-elle protéger la nature ? Le pari douteux des « crédits biodiversité »

The Post Internazionale – Survival International: “Alla Cop16 in Colombia non possiamo permettere che il fallimento delle compensazioni di CO2 si ripeta anche con la biodiversità”

REDD-Monitor – Biodiversity offsets and credits: “ecological impacts, land dispossession, loss of livelihoods and systematic violations of individual and collective rights of the affected communities”

Liberation – Comment les crédits biodiversité tentent de conquérir la planète

ECo-Business – Are biodiversity credits doomed to repeat the voluntary carbon market’s flaws?

AEF Info – Crédits biodiversité : les initiatives se multiplient, sans lever l’ambiguïté sur la compensation

Bloomberg – King Charles and Big Banks Jump Into New Market to Save Nature

Carbon Pulse – Civil Society Organisations worldwide urge not to be ‘fooled’ by biodiversity credits

Follow The Money – Big polluter but ‘plastic neutral’: how does PepsiCo’s green pledge add up?

Carbon brief – Q&A: Can debt-for-nature ‘swaps’ help tackle biodiversity loss and climate change?

AEF Info – Les crédits biodiversité éviteront-ils le scandale des crédits carbone ? (2/3)

Carbon Pulse – Indigenous-led organisation says communities want to explore biodiversity credits

Eco-Business – From rhino bonds to debt-for-nature swaps: Can these financing instruments protect Asia’s biodiversity?

Carbon Pulse – INTERVIEW: Corporate alliance forms to explore potential of biodiversity credit market

Eco-Business – ‘There shouldn’t be an international tradeable unit of biodiversity’: The Nature Conservancy CEO

Carbon Pulse – Think tank advises Indigenous Peoples to reject alliance biodiversity credit proposals

The Mint magazine – Can finance save polar bears?

Follow the money – Met koala-certificaten en neushoorn-obligaties wil het bedrijfsleven vergroenen: ‘Het is de nieuwe bitcoin’

Impact Alpha – Can the UK’s market for trading nature credits deliver ‘biodiversity net gain’?

L’Express – Crédits biodiversité : vers un marché du carbone… en pire ?

Académie du climat 19 octobre 2023 – Financiarisation de la nature

Proz Pro Bono – Meet the clients 3

Libération – La finance verte de Macron ne sauvera pas les ours polaires

Bloomberg – Biodiversity Credits Gain Traction But Questions Persist

Mongabay – False claims of U.N. backing see Indigenous groups cede forest rights for sketchy finance

Carbon Pulse – INTERVIEW: Verra nature credit ‘exact’ same as offsetting definition

Carbon Brief – COP28: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Dubai

Exergie podcast – marchés et finance durables

Liberation – Marché de la biodiversité : un système de crédits aux airs de supercherie

Economics for rebels podcast – trading irresponsibility: turning environmental policies into gambling casinos

Carbone Pulse – French initiative to produce biodiversity benefit assessment methodology

RFI – Protection de la nature : un nouveau business ?

Bloomberg – Nature’s eDNA detectives

ESG clarity: Environment Bank rolls out biodiversity credits but caution remains

Carbon Brief in depth Q&A: what are biodiversity offsets?

Libération: Finance durable : contre «l’arnaque du siècle», un banquier repenti vert de rage

Associated Press News: A $500 million deal to restore Gabon’s coast reignites climate finance debate

Economiacircolare.com: I crediti per la biodiversità sono il nuovo fronte della finanziarizzazione della natura?

Carbon Pulse: FEATURE: Biodiversity market participants applaud French-British initiative, but want space to grow

Le club de Mediapart: Crédits biodiversité «fiables, impactants et équitables»: la feuille de route cruciale dont personne ne parle

Cosmos: Can monetising nature help repair it?

Carbon Pulse: Biodiversity offsetting included as green investment in EU green taxonomy

RSEDataNews: Crédits Biodiversité : le Royaume-Uni s’apprête à lancer un marché de compensation réglementaire

Crédits Biodiversité : le Royaume-Uni s’apprête à lancer un marché de compensation réglementaire

Global Environment Network: debunking nature-based solutions part 1

ESG Clarity: Biodiversity offsets ‘plagued with environmental integrity issues’

EU Observer: Putting a price on nature? Not a good idea, experts say

Carbon Pulse: Biodiversity market needs greater flexibility but starts in “more advanced” position than carbon -Verra

Elucid: la financiarisation de la nature vise à maintenir le status quo

Novethic: Après le scandale des crédits carbone, le Royaume-Uni s’apprête à lancer des crédits biodiversité

Quantum commodity intelligence: Tokenized carbon credits ‘will not improve integrity’: report

Carbon Pulse: EU crypto regulation fails to cover environmental impact of industry, warns think-tank

l’Echo: Les Verts européens dénoncent le greenwashing crypto

Médiapart: Biodiversité : le Royaume-Uni accélère la marchandisation

Campagnes solidaires – Les Paysan-nes face au réensauvagement et à la financiarisation de la nature

RSEDataNews: Les Crédits Biodiversité: un nouvel eldorado ?

Voxeurop: Monétiser la biodiversité, une mauvaise affaire pour l’Europe

Reuters: Analysis: COP15 debates whether biodiversity credits can put a value on nature

Financial Times: Biodiversity offsets: Carbon credits’ contentious cousins

Carbon Pulse: EU green finance group warns against monetising nature

Mediapart: La COP biodiversité tentée par la marchandisation des écosystèmes

Down to Earth: Over 100 experts oppose ‘Nature Positive Fund’ in open letter to UN before COP15

DN Debatt. ”Går inte att kompensera för naturvärden som förstörts”

Bloomberg: UN Says New Biodiversity Credits Can Succeed Where Carbon Offsets Failed

Just nature podcast – Carola Rackete: The power of money and finance in conservation

Center for American Progress: The CFTC Should Raise Standards and Mitigate Fraud in the Carbon Offsets Market

Bloomberg: Controversial Law Could Remake English Countryside — And Not in a Good Way

Al Jazeera: Proposed EU legislation feared to pose threat to biodiversity

El Salto: ¿Quién se forra con el cambio climático?

Le Monde: Les matières premières, « dernier bastion du capitalisme sauvage »

Radio Television Suisse: le journal de 8h

Reporterre: des financiers veulent créer un marché des baleines

Carbon Pulse: EU lawmakers muster efforts to curb carbon market speculation

L’Echo: Les quotas d’émissions de CO2 “vampirisés” par la spéculation

Euractiv: EU carbon market blurred by volatile prices and speculation, Greens warn

Episode 136 COP26 SPECIAL Frédéric Hache from Green Finance Observatory: a critical analysis of carbon offsets and related market mechanisms

Bloomberg – A $180 Billion Green-Debt Boom Is Growing Faster Than Its Impact

Le Media – COP26: les puissants nous conduisent droit dans le monde

The Telegraph – Sunak paints the City of London green as he chases net-zero backing

The sustainability agenda Episode 136 COP26 special Frédéric Hache from GFO

UN climate summit – Opinion: A COP For The Climate Or For The Financial Sector?

Bloomberg: Banks Prepare to Fight Basel Over Carbon Derivatives Rule

Médiapart: Un congrès mondial de la nature tout en contradictions

Reuters: Critics and backers urge tough rules to revive ailing carbon markets

Guardian: Businesses and experts reveal plans for carbon offset regulator

Financial Post: A touch of green Irish blarney — The arrival of Mark Carney’s book

Responsible investor: Carney offsetting taskforce to develop principles and governance body

Bloomberg: Carney’s taskforce looks to boost carbon offset market

Climate Home News: Carney’s carbon offset taskforce ducks environmental integrity questions

Mediapart : Biodiversité: rentabiliser la nature pour la protéger 

Climate Risk Review: Stoking voluntary carbon markets could imperil financial stability

EU Sustainable Taxonomy Delegated Acts “Ignore Scientific Advice”

Heinrich Böll Stiftung – Further information on the New Economy of Nature

Le Télégramme – Von der Leyen en missionnaire du climat

Les Echos: le prix des “droits à polluer” européens s’effondre avec le confinement

https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/energie-environnement/le-prix-des-droits-a-polluer-europeens-seffondre-avec-le-confinement-1188990

Green European Journal: how natural are natural climate solutions?

Contexte: Quand l’UE tente de définir les activités « durables » … Le début d’une lutte d’influence

Propublica: The Word Nobody Wanted to Say at the UN Climate Action Summit

Politico : Buy Sweden, sell Spain: Climate change roils EU land values

Novethic : [Édito vidéo] Mettre un prix sur la nature pour la sauver ?

Le Soir : La finance au service de la nature? Pas à n’importe quelles conditions, dit la société civile

Agence Europe: “putting a price on nature to save it” is not right solution, according to Green Finance Observatory

Les Echos : Négocier la nature sur les marchés financiers ? Une ONG met en garde

Mediapart : Les marchés carbone ne vont pas rendre à notre planète sa grandeur

Redd Monitor: Carbon markets “will never work and should be abandoned”

Arte: Climat : agir oui, mais comment ? Europe et hop – 15/03/2019

Les Echos: Climat : des universitaires réclament l’abandon des marchés carbone

Alternatives Economiques : 100 économistes contre les marchés carbone

Le blog de Nicolas Bouleau : La transition