An independent think tank working on environmental markets and sustainable finance
We strongly welcome the recently unveiled People's Plan for Nature, that contains many excellent recommendations. We find however that a few of the recommendations require further clarification, as in their current form they could be understood as being compatible with the UK government’s plan to launch 4 new nature markets, aimed in no small part …
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The summit aims among other things at “unlocking innovative sources of financing including market-based biodiversity conservation solutions, with a special focus on so-called biodiversity-positive carbon credits and nature certificates. We find that there is nothing innovative about financial instruments on biodiversity that have been amply debated over the past decade and merely tweaked of late. …
UNDP and IIED have recently published a study promoting biocredit markets and claiming that biocredits are different from the discredited biodiversity offset credits. Yet, we find that reading the IIED reports tells a different story Download our short brief here