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November 29, 2023

Why we need to invest in natural climate solutions now

There is a growing tide of negative sentiment towards nature-based solutions (NbS). If this groundswell of...

September 22, 2023

What does it take to restore forests at scale?

This article was originally published on the World Economic Forum’s website on September 20, 2023. We’re...

June 7, 2023

Why forest value chains create higher quality carbon credits

If we are to restore the world’s forests, we must first address the drivers of forest...

January 26, 2023

Equitable benefit sharing: Understanding forms of value for communities

In a previous blog , we discussed the concept of equitable benefit sharing, or how the...

January 19, 2023

The importance of equity for successful benefit sharing in reforestation

As the carbon market explodes in value, many are starting to wonder: who is benefitting? From...

September 14, 2022

How durability in forest carbon forces us to think about livelihoods

How do you ensure a forest stays in the ground? This is the central question of...

September 27, 2021

An untapped opportunity for reforestation

How does coffee connect to forests? As one of the world’s largest commodities, coffee grows on...

October 1, 2020

10 things you probably didn’t know about tropical trees

Please note that this article contains mention of FARM-TRACE, the previous name for Taking Root’s technology...

March 6, 2020

Planting one trillion trees sounds great, but how do we do it?

2019 will go down in history as the year the world woke up to climate crisis....

November 5, 2019

The fallacy of permanence: what energy projects can learn from natural climate solutions

“The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to...

September 25, 2019

JOIN US – STRIKE FOR THE CLIMATE

“How Dare you?” Greta Thunburg asked of the UN’s Climate Action Summit taking place this week....

September 9, 2019

Tackling the climate crisis: does carbon pricing even work?

I recently participated on a recorded debate for Climate One podcast with other environmentalists about the...