“[Smallholder] farmers are spending US$368 billion of their income every year on measures to adapt to climate change including through conserving or restoring biodiversity”. Read the full working paper: Hou Jones, X., Sorsby, N. (2023 ). The unsung giants of climate and nature investment: insights from an international survey of local climate and nature action by smallholder forest and farm producers. IIED, London
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Land and Resource Rights in the Age of Carbon Markets – two-page fact sheet from Landesa.
Global Croptake – One Acre Fund’s comprehensive “look at the threats to global food production and security since the Paris Agreement and into our future”. The full report is accessible here.
State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2023 – a publication of Ecosystems Marketplace (Forest Trends) “finds evidence of a market-wide shift in the voluntary carbon markets (VCM), with demand concentrating around high-integrity, high-quality carbon credits that have holisti co-benefits beyond the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions”. Read the full report here.
Some links to post-COP analysis suggested by Eric Wilburn:
- An overall writeup by We Mean Business;
- An analysis of outcomes for carbon finance and markets by the Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative; and
- The implications of non-agreement on Article 6 for carbon work by Ecosystems Marketplace.