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Climate Change

United We Thrive: Bridging Climate, Biodiversity, and Land Restoration for a Sustainable Future

When it comes to land restoration, integrated solutions are not just an ideal, they are the foundation of thriving ecosystems and communities.

28 November 2024

By Brianna Van Matre

Mountain Range, biodiverse agricultural land and Forests
COP29, Baku, Azerbaijan

Climate Action Agenda: Insights from COP28 and Expectations for COP29

Explore key biodiversity and climate priorities shaping global negotiations and landscape solutions at the latest COP conference.

22 July 2024

By Brianna Van Matre

Record low Colorado River levels can be seen in exposed layers

The Deal to Keep the Colorado River From Going Dry Isn’t the Solution. We Have a Smarter Answer.

The deal to keep the Colorado River from going dry offers only a temporary reprieve rather than an enduring solution, failing to fully address the poor practices that got us here or anticipate future challenges.

7 July 2023

By Brianna Van Matre

Castillo de Lamas (Lamas Castle), a medieval-style landmark built in the San Martín region of Peru

EcoAg’s Scherr on 2023 Skoll World Forum: Changemakers debate Carbon Markets, Finance and More for People and Nature

At the Skoll World Forum, we advocated for global leaders to consider landscape approaches to meet their conservation and development goals.

15 May 2023

By Brianna Van Matre

Navigation of the Mayo river in the Moyobamba jungle of San Martin, Peru

Getting the Climate Project Pipeline Flowing: New Funding to Help EcoAg Build Needed Landscape Finance Tools

Solving challenging global issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss requires collaboration between different sectors and stakeholders.

8 May 2023

By Brianna Van Matre

Talls Trees beside an Urban Skyscaper Building

Can Finance Ease the Climate Crisis and Halt Species Loss? Experts Say Yes. 

Experts at Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) 6th Investment Case Symposium say that the financial sector may begin to take a role in helping society address climate change, land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

28 March 2023

By Brianna Van Matre

Mountainous landscape in Northern Colombia, near the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains

Global EbA Fund Grant Will Help Landscapes Find Financing for Climate Adaptation

EcoAgriculture Partners will work with Conservation International to improve financial tools to help landscapes secure funding for ecosystem-based climage adaptation (EbA) projects.

13 March 2023

By Brianna Van Matre

Mountain Range, biodiverse agricultural land and Forests

Governments Must Support Landscape and Seascape Partnerships or Risk Missing Sustainable Development Goals, New Report Finds

The Public Policy to Support Landscape and Seascape Partnerships highlights that governments must support these partnerships or risk missing local SDG targets.

20 February 2023

By Ava Eucker

Biodiverse Landscape

Every Sector has a Role to Play in Conserving Biodiversity. EcoAgriculture Partners will Continue to Convene Influential Initiatives at COP 15.

National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and National Biodiversity Finance Plans development will consider all sector roles in conserving biodiversity.

Varied crops in a valley

Mexico Launches Unique Declaration Promoting Leadership by Landscape Partnerships and Local Governments to Fight Climate Change, Blunt Biodiversity Loss and Benefit Communities

Climate Action to Recover Mexico’s Natural Heritage: promoting regenerative management actions and solutions.

Farmers discuss solutions to sustainable landscape management in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Build better carbon markets to tackle climate change. A conversation with leading scientist and EcoAg Board Member Ruth Defries

An article published in the journal Science asserts that voluntary carbon markets, trading in credits to counterbalance climate change-inducing carbon dioxide, fail to maximize the greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions they could offset.

11 October 2022

By EcoAgriculture Partners

A bee on a flower in an orchard

Landscape Partnerships Provide Powerful Tools To Help Countries Attain Sustainable Development Goals, Expert Panel Says

To address the world’s crises on climate, biodiversity and livelihoods, nations and international organizations are launching major policy initiatives and landscape partnerships.

Hilly Landscape, with varied crops

Natural Climate Solutions in Landscapes Help Communities Mitigate Impacts, Expert Panel Says

During a roundtable on Connecting Natural Climate Solutions with Integrated Landscape Management, panelists laid out their foundational work on NCS.

2 November 2021

By Juan Ramos