Green Finance Observatory
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Independent think tank working on sustainable finance, carbon markets and natural capital
December 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Today the IAPB will host a session at #COP30 titled "IAPB Carbon & Biodiversity Credits – Integrity in Focus." Yet, their proposal for high integrity credits includes many features that arguably contradict the high integrity claim: from the allowance for offsetting, 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today the IAPB will host a session at #COP30 titled "IAPB Carbon & Biodiversity Credits – Integrity in Focus." Yet, their proposal for high integrity credits includes many features that arguably contradict the high integrity claim: from the allowance for offsetting, 1/2
Far from being a game changing innovation, the #TFFF launched at #COP30 is a cleverly packaged fund where conservation funding is conditional and the last wheel of the wagon; as payments for conservation come last and are first to be impacted in case of underperformance; 1/3
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Today 9 Brazilian Amazon States are launching a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. If you want to know what biodiversity credits are and why they are a predictable environmental failure, read this comicbook: 1/2 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Today 9 Brazilian Amazon States are launching a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. If you want to know what biodiversity credits are and why they are a predictable environmental failure, read this comicbook: 1/2 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...
On 12 Nov 9 Brazilian Amazon States will launch a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. This feels like a good time to publish the last 2 chapters of our comicbook on biodiv credits: who promotes these markets, why, and what are the alternatives greenfinanceobservatory.org/50-shades-of...
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
On 12 Nov 9 Brazilian Amazon States will launch a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. This feels like a good time to publish the last 2 chapters of our comicbook on biodiv credits: who promotes these markets, why, and what are the alternatives greenfinanceobservatory.org/50-shades-of...
EU’s roadmap for #naturecredits confirms the fears we expressed about the leaked version. We understand that #naturecredits will most likely be used as international compliance offsets. 1/3
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July 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
EU’s roadmap for #naturecredits confirms the fears we expressed about the leaked version. We understand that #naturecredits will most likely be used as international compliance offsets. 1/3
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Today's EU session on creating a water smart economy leaves me with open questions; while I support the goal to increase water reuse, including through recovering phosphorus and nitrogen in water, I wonder: 1/3
June 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today's EU session on creating a water smart economy leaves me with open questions; while I support the goal to increase water reuse, including through recovering phosphorus and nitrogen in water, I wonder: 1/3
EU's draft roadmap on #NatureCredits raises serious concerns and questions. We find that EU’s €37bn biodiversity funding gap could be closed entirely by redirecting existing subsidies to harmful activities, and doesn't require “making nature investable,” 1/3
June 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
EU's draft roadmap on #NatureCredits raises serious concerns and questions. We find that EU’s €37bn biodiversity funding gap could be closed entirely by redirecting existing subsidies to harmful activities, and doesn't require “making nature investable,” 1/3
IAPB/UN/WEF published a week ago their revised and updated high integrity principles to guide the biodiversity credits market. 1/4
May 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
IAPB/UN/WEF published a week ago their revised and updated high integrity principles to guide the biodiversity credits market. 1/4
French private reinsurer SCOR offers a new insurance product for #biodiversity restoration projects. Note how this insurance is presented as a way for private companies with destructive activities to prevent tighter environmental regulations and to keep their social licence to operate 1/2
May 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
French private reinsurer SCOR offers a new insurance product for #biodiversity restoration projects. Note how this insurance is presented as a way for private companies with destructive activities to prevent tighter environmental regulations and to keep their social licence to operate 1/2
Now that French OBC is launching a #biodiversity credit pilot project in Abidjan, that TotalEnergies is doing biodiversity offsetting in Uganda & that the EU Commission launched a #NatureCredit pilot project in Peru, 1/2
April 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Now that French OBC is launching a #biodiversity credit pilot project in Abidjan, that TotalEnergies is doing biodiversity offsetting in Uganda & that the EU Commission launched a #NatureCredit pilot project in Peru, 1/2
Bezos transforms the Washington Post into a propaganda machine claiming that regulation is "coercitive," and what we need instead "free markets." Perfect case study for my students about media control and why we fail on climate change & biodiversity loss mitigation. #ManufacturingConsent
February 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Bezos transforms the Washington Post into a propaganda machine claiming that regulation is "coercitive," and what we need instead "free markets." Perfect case study for my students about media control and why we fail on climate change & biodiversity loss mitigation. #ManufacturingConsent
Scotland's forthcoming #NatureCredit market has not yet started and already a Bill proposes enabling politicians to "modify or restate" the country's Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitat Regulations, 1/2
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February 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Scotland's forthcoming #NatureCredit market has not yet started and already a Bill proposes enabling politicians to "modify or restate" the country's Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitat Regulations, 1/2
www.parliament.scot/-/media/file...
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Dear #EuropeanEnvironmentalBureau and #Greenpeace, I am very surprised to see you endorse " #naturecredits as long as such a system does not include any form of offsetting and does not replicate any of the well-documented issues that plague voluntary carbon markets." 1/6
February 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Dear #EuropeanEnvironmentalBureau and #Greenpeace, I am very surprised to see you endorse " #naturecredits as long as such a system does not include any form of offsetting and does not replicate any of the well-documented issues that plague voluntary carbon markets." 1/6
EU Commission tasks platform on sustainable finance with recommending changes in EU taxonomy to include #biodiversity credits
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carbon-pulse.com/356999/?utm_...
January 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
EU Commission tasks platform on sustainable finance with recommending changes in EU taxonomy to include #biodiversity credits
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Scotland just published a framework for 'high integrity nature markets.' Its goals include generating "significant economic growth," thereby further entrenching the current economic growth maximisation paradigm that created the current crisis.. 1/5
www.gov.scot/binaries/con...
www.gov.scot/binaries/con...
November 6, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Scotland just published a framework for 'high integrity nature markets.' Its goals include generating "significant economic growth," thereby further entrenching the current economic growth maximisation paradigm that created the current crisis.. 1/5
www.gov.scot/binaries/con...
www.gov.scot/binaries/con...
Breaking: despite IAPB claims to be against international #biodiversity #offsetting & secondary market trading, IAPB co-chairs just stated that they do not encourage it but claim to be powerless to prevent it. See our brief : 1/2 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u... #COP16Colombia #COP16
October 29, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Breaking: despite IAPB claims to be against international #biodiversity #offsetting & secondary market trading, IAPB co-chairs just stated that they do not encourage it but claim to be powerless to prevent it. See our brief : 1/2 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u... #COP16Colombia #COP16
El lunes será el día de las finanzas en la COP16, donde el tema será la creación de mercados financieros sobre la destrucción de la naturaleza. ¿No sabes qué es esto? Lee esta breve historieta #COP16Colombia #COP16 #PeaceWithNature
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October 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM
El lunes será el día de las finanzas en la COP16, donde el tema será la creación de mercados financieros sobre la destrucción de la naturaleza. ¿No sabes qué es esto? Lee esta breve historieta #COP16Colombia #COP16 #PeaceWithNature
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Are you ready for Monday's unveiling by the EU Commission of its plan to create a market to "restore the planet", aka permits to destroy nature? #COP16Colombia #COP16 #FalseSolution #Neoliberalism
October 25, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Are you ready for Monday's unveiling by the EU Commission of its plan to create a market to "restore the planet", aka permits to destroy nature? #COP16Colombia #COP16 #FalseSolution #Neoliberalism
