The strategy for Lombard Odier is to create nature-based investment assets by deploying capital into monoculture coffee plantations near forests and to re-forest them, creating shaded, biodiverse agroforests.
Le premier grand congrès international qui s’intéressera à la manière de décoloniser la conservation de la nature, “Notre terre, notre nature”, aura lieu à Marseille, en France, le 2 septembre 2021, juste avant le Congrès mondial de la nature de l’UICN qui se tiendra dans la même ville.
Global private equity investment firm Bregal Investments announced its first venture into impact investing with the launch of Bregal Sphere Nature Strategy, a dedicated natural capital platform with a focus on agricultural supply chains.
Les solutions fondées sur la nature détournent l'attention des vraies causes de la crise climatique et de la perte de la biodiversité - exploitation croissante et à but lucratif des ressources - et qui mènent à l'accaparement des terres des peuples autochtones
Presentations by Antonio Tricarico of CRBM (financialisation of nature in general) and Devlin Kuyek of GRAIN (land grabbing as specific sector / example)
RRG Nature Based Solutions LLC has so far acquired lands for carbon farming projects in Morocco and Colombia.
Carbon credit schemes are not just flawed as climate solutions; they have perpetrated devastating human rights abuses and land grabs.
Entretien avec Karin Nansen, membre des Amis de la Terre International et de REDES-Amis de la Terre Uruguay
In the last ten years, pension funds and other large investment funds have invested more and more in agricultural land as a part of their financial portfolios, contributing to increasing human rights violations and environmental destruction.
Oil trader Trafigura and Singapore's Temasek will produce carbon credits by planting 24 million trees in Colombia's in Orinoco River Basin on 30,000 hectares of land that has been degraded by cattle grazing.
Silva Capital invests in agricultural land to develop large-scale carbon sequestration projects by reforesting cleared areas, while ensuring the land remains productive for farming.
As the world concentrates on dealing with COVID-19 pandemic, multinational companies continue to evict communities from their land, tearing down their lives and their sovereignty to plant monocrops like oil palm and sugar cane in Africa, or GMO soy in South America.
The sustained advocacy by communities affected by large land deals and civil society for change to the policies and laws governing land administration have resulted in departures from the historical norms on land rights and tenure security.
Derrière la fin du conflit armé se cache un autre enjeu loin d’être réglé : celui de l’accès à la terre et la préservation des ressources naturelles.
Chassée de Fanaye grâce à une prise de conscience collective, l'entreprise italo-américaine Senéthanol-Senhuile fait son atterrissange forcé à Gnith, décimant des vies entières.
La Via Campesina appelle à une journée de mobilisation massive le 17 Avril, journée Internationale des Luttes Paysannes, pour reprendre possession de notre système alimentaire
Support our protest with a letter to Ahn Yong Nam, president and CEO of Daewoo Logistics Corp. Urge Daewoo to bring clarity and transparency to the public about the announced contract with the Madagascan government, and their contents and conditions.
"A key obstacle to more transparent debate and informed decisions by governments and investors [involved in global land transactions] is the lack of science-based information," writes Surendra Shah in Nature magazine
There is an increasing demand for nature-based solutions and real assets are of particular interest to institutional asset owners. But just because something is a natural investment does not always mean it is good for the environment. Or that it is a good investment.
A new rush for “carbon removals” and “offsets” from land, forests and oceans is ramping up repression under the guise of providing “nature based solutions” to the ecological crises.
A new report explores how global finance has transformed land and nature into financial assets, driving violence and environmental destruction.
L'ONG et la filiale de Natixis visent à développer l'offre de solutions climatiques fondées sur la nature, basée sur la gestion durable des terres de Mirova en Afrique, en Amérique latine et en Asie.
African Agriculture (AAGR), a US company planning to grow alfalfa for livestock feed in Senegal, is set to launch an initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange. But the land concession it holds used to be part of the Ndiaël nature reserve, a wetland that’s home to many threatened species and a key grazing ground for local herders.
The transaction marks the World Bank's IFC's first engagement with an institutional timberland investment manager, which is expected to generate carbon credits through nature-based solutions in Brazil.
The $8.7 billion Sydney-based global investor and manager of nature-based property assets has formed New Agriculture to build a much bigger portfolio of agriculture assets.
There is a common and well-known philosophy throughout Papua, which represents the strong bond between women and nature; “Land is Mama”. We might suspect that it sounds like a romantic attachment of the stereotype of domestic work to one gender. However, it is reflected in what these Indigenous women, who fight for their land are doing.
L’un des principaux points de cet accord devrait porter sur l’engagement indéfectible de Senhuile d’éviter toute intervention de nature à perturber les fonctions écologiques de la réserve
Dama Jean Dare Ratolonjanahary, community activist and co-founder of the Comite de Defense des Terres, told New Lines that, “Carbon credits are an excuse to continue destroying nature in exchange for money”.
La filiale du groupement Palmcam (Palmeraies du Cameroun) est sur le gril des organisations non gouvernementales de défense de la nature, et de la presse hollandaise
Le tribunal français « invite » chaque paysan à communiquer avant le 20 janvier 2020 « tout document officiel établissant l’existence, la nature, la localisation, la surface exacte et le référencement de la ou des terres dont il est demandé la restitution », « tout document notarié, individualisé et officiel établissant la propriété de chacun sur la ou les terres revendiquées » et « tout document justifiant de l’état civil de chacun ».
