Forestry

To protect the world’s invaluable forests, we need greater engagement and collaboration between companies throughout supply chains, that source and produce commodities in high-risk regions. CDP calls on their supply chain forests member to pursue collaborative projects to tackle deforestation.

Where and when does forest monitoring inform problem solving? Learn from the experiences of Vietnam, Cameroon, and Brazil.

The European Commission published the 20th edition of its Annual Report on Forest Fires in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, covering 2019.

In what was possibly the worst-ever year for forest fires around the world, the report shows that over 400,000 hectares (ha) of Europe’s natural land was burnt and an unusually high number of nature protection areas were affected by wildfires.

'Ecological mangrove restoration' trumps one-size-fits-all approach to forest loss

A new approach in restoring mangroves accounts for an area’s altered hydrology and encourages natural restoration, resulting in better survival rates, faster growth, and a more diverse, resilient forest.

As momentum towards net zero rises around the world, this PRI report provides much needed transparency on the importance of land use and the role of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) in the transition.

The report finds that NETs are the next investment frontier and offer trillion dollar upside opportunities for investors. Within NETs, forest-related Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) could generate US$800 billion in annual revenues by 2050, worth US$1.2 trillion today in NPV terms, surpassing the current market capitalisation of the oil & gas majors.

Hence, an entire new industry may emerge that values carbon stored in vegetation and soil, unlocking new business models and investment opportunities for avoided deforestation, reforestation and afforestation, and land restoration. Thanks to its low cost, natural forest restoration looks likely to emerge as the earliest feasible investment opportunity.