Roberta Boscolo

🌎MDBs are working together to advance a common approach to mesuring climate results - developing shared indicators that capture how investments support people, communities and inclusive net-zero pathways. At #COP30 our Senior Technical Adviser Carel Cronenberg presented the work of the Joint MDB Just Transition Working Group on #JustTransition (JT) Results Indicators, demonstrating the critical importance of establishing a comprehensive indicator menu. #MDBs

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🚨BREAKING: UNFCCC released its NDC Synthesis Report today, reviewing climate plans from 64 countries. While countries representing 64% of emissions haven't submitted new NDCs yet, the report finds current pledges far short of what’s needed to limit warming to 1.5°C. Read our statement by WRI Climate Global Director, Melanie Robinson: https://lnkd.in/eANXPDMt #COP30 #NDC #climateaction #emissions

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Our role as a learning laboratory is clear: generate knowledge, test new ideas, and strengthen climate finance for a more resilient future.    Our Evaluation and Learning Initiative delivers rigorous studies on just transitions, transformational change, and what shapes climate finance today. These insights guide CIF’s strategic decisions, enhance accountability, and help countries apply lessons that improve interventions on the ground.    Learn more ⤵️  https://lnkd.in/ehi_GiQ8   #GetToKnowCIF 

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A new Global Water Sustainability Index has been introduced, aiming to bring greater rigor and comparability to corporate water reporting. This development is both timely and strategic. Water is no longer a peripheral ESG consideration. It is a systemic risk variable — directly linked to food security, energy transition, industrial competitiveness, public health, and geopolitical stability. Yet corporate disclosure on water has historically remained fragmented, narrative-heavy, and difficult to benchmark across sectors and jurisdictions. Moving toward science-based, quantitative metrics is an important evolution. However, this initiative arrives at a moment when the sustainability ecosystem is trending toward consolidation rather than proliferation of standards. The real test of any new index will be whether it complements — and ideally integrates into — established global frameworks such as GRI, SASB, and ISSB. Fragmentation increases reporting fatigue; coherence strengthens capital markets’ ability to price water risk accurately. There is also a broader conceptual opportunity. Water measurement frameworks have traditionally focused on exposure, scarcity, and risk mitigation. While these dimensions are essential, the next generation of metrics must also capture positive contribution and resilience creation. In high water-stress regions, optimized desalination — particularly when powered efficiently and governed responsibly — can materially increase the availability of usable water, stabilize supply systems, and support long-term economic diversification. When integrated within basin-level planning and circular water strategies, desalination can represent not only a risk-managed activity but a resilience-enabling infrastructure. Measuring water performance should therefore move beyond “risk avoidance” toward “system contribution.” Finally, corporate water reporting cannot be disconnected from national SDG 6 pathways and sovereign water strategies. Alignment between private-sector disclosure, basin realities, and long-term national water planning will be critical — especially as global dialogue intensifies ahead of major water diplomacy milestones in the coming years. Water governance is entering a new era. Better metrics will matter. But integration, alignment, and strategic contribution will matter even more. #WaterSecurity #SDG6 #ESG #WaterGovernance #Desalination #Sustainability #CorporateReporting #WaterDiplomacy https://lnkd.in/dD2f6HaG

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Ahead of the first Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) review at COP17 in October 2026, 125 countries have submitted their 7th National Reports, reflecting global commitments to halt biodiversity loss. For Africa, these reports provide critical insights to guide conservation, natural resource management, and policies linking biodiversity with livelihoods, agriculture, and economic resilience. The upcoming COP17 review will assess collective progress and shape future action. Read the full story by Carlton Oloo: https://lnkd.in/dc87aStx #ASMNews #Biodiversity #COP17 #KMGBF #Africa #Conservation #SustainableDevelopment

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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are being systematically locked out of climate finance – not because they don’t need it, but because the global financing system deems them too small, too fragmented and too risky to fund. I contributed my insights to a new report, Financing SIDS' blue development: An assessment of regional delivery frameworks, launched this week by Back to Blue – a global ocean research initiative from @EconomistImpact and @TheNipponFoundation – that sets out practical pathways to change this.  Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gNdRpjK4 Climate Finance Access Network (CFAN)

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IKI Small Grants: New Funding for Local Climate & Biodiversity Action The IKI Small Grants programme has launched its 7th Call for Proposals. Local organisations can apply for funding for climate and biodiversity projects. Registration is open until 15 January, 2026. IKI Small Grants supports projects and organisations worldwide that tackle climate change, address local adaptation, and conserve forests and biodiversity. Get to know the programme, learn about funding opportunities, and get inspired by good approaches from IKI Small Grants projects. More here: https://lnkd.in/gQP5ZtUe

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Farmers’ Rights in India‘s context needs stronger convergence between PPVFRA and the National Biodiversity Authority. Leveraging India’s Biodiversity Management Committees for participatory documentation and characterisation of farmers’ varieties, crop wild relatives, and wild species with shared community knowledge is urgent. Farmers’ Rights must get operational expanding across the full spectrum of economically and ethnobiologically important plant species to truly honour our custodians of agrobiodiversity. This can be achieved only by collaborative efforts.

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🌍 Global Climate Progress Update: NDC Synthesis Report 2025 The UNFCCC Secretariat’s 2025 NDC Synthesis Report marks a key moment in tracking global climate ambition under the Paris Agreement. 📉 Based on the latest 86 NDCs submitted by 113 Parties, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — including land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) — are projected to fall 12% below 2019 levels by 2035. 🔥 Without the Paris Agreement, emissions were on track to rise by 20–48% by 2035 — highlighting how collective climate action is bending the global emissions curve downward. ⚙️ The update also reflects growing participation, now covering 69% of global emissions, with stronger commitments from major economies including Brazil, Germany, China, the EU, and Indonesia. While progress is visible, the findings underscore an urgent need for accelerated action — aligning national targets with 1.5°C pathways through deeper decarbonization, climate finance, and technology deployment. Rohit Kumar Vineeta Mehra Sruthy Jacob Korea Environmental Preservation Association New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) GIZ India British International Investment USAID Global Biofuels Alliance Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited Renew Energy KOTRA Adani Group Waaree Energies Ltd TruAlt Bioenergy MODEL ECONOMIC TOWNSHIP LIMITED LABKARTS INDIA PVT LTD Kiansh International Technologies Private Limited Ocior Energy Holding Ltd Jakson Green BGR Tech Limited Godrej Enterprises Group Glencore Reliance Industries Limited Meta Materials Circular Markets Embassy of the Republic of Korea LX International Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) Korea Development Bank (KDB) DOHWA Engineering., Ltd. SAMSUNG TRADING. #ClimateAction #ParisAgreement #NDCs #NetZero #UNFCCC #Sustainability #CarbonMarkets

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🌿 Nature Meets Cities: Launch of the IUCN Sectorial Interpretation for Urban Nature-based Solutions 🚀 How can cities harness the power of nature to become more resilient, equitable, and sustainable? 🏙️🌱 Join today’s IUCN World Conservation Congress session “Nature Meets Cities” to explore the newly launched IUCN Sectorial Interpretation for Urban NbS — a practical framework helping urban planners, policymakers, and practitioners integrate Nature-based Solutions into city design and governance. 🕠 Today | 11 October | 16:30–18:30 📍 Conference Hall B: Session Room 9 (Onsite) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eehTBuHH The session features insights and case studies from Thailand, the Mediterranean region, and Africa, illustrating how NbS can address climate risks, biodiversity loss, and social inequalities — improving lives while building greener cities. This is a unique opportunity to connect with innovators shaping the future of nature-positive urban development — where nature meets cities, and resilience meets design. 🌳✨ 🏛️ 🌿 #IUCNCongress #NatureBasedSolutions #UrbanNature

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New report: How can we build lasting, cross-border biodiversity monitoring schemes? Our latest analysis explores what it takes to implement and sustain long-term, transnational biodiversity monitoring in Europe. It identifies five key dimensions (governance, funding, coordination, data, and policy impact) and compares top-down, bottom-up, and hybrid models for success. The report draws from real case studies, Biodiversa+ pilot experiences, and two expert workshops to offer practical strategies for overcoming fragmentation and ensuring long-term viability. ➡️ For anyone involved in environmental policy, research, or conservation: https://lnkd.in/eDhNRPdE #Biodiversity #BiodiversityMonitoring #EBVs #EU2030Biodiversity #NatureData

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For Biodiversity Day at #UNFCCC #COP30, Finance for Biodiversity publishes a call for policy coherence and integrated financial strategies to unlock the biodiversity-climate nexus. We call on Parties to seize the opportunity of #COP30 to agree on effective measures to halt and reverse biodiversity loss this decade, notably by supporting the alignment of financial flows with the Paris Agreement and the Global Biodiversity Framework (#GBF).  This piece illustrates the importance of the topic for financial institutions by showcasing flagship strategies along the biodiversity-climate nexus, with a focus on Forests & the Ocean. Discover flagship case studies from AGRI3 Fund, Folium Capital, SWEN Capital Partners & Mirova, as well as a key NbS initiative led by Capital for Climate. #COP30ActionAgenda #Biodiversity #Climate Read the full piece for more insights on why the private sector needs policy coherence along the biodiversity-climate nexus: https://lnkd.in/erx6dZbn

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In their newly published policy brief, among the five drivers of transformation IRD 4p1000 Initiative CIRAD and IDDRI call on strengthened and inclusive science-policy-society interfaces to address climate change, land degradation, biodiversity loss, and food insecurity. Great to see the #MontpellierProcess highlighted. With one hundred million hectares of productive land disappearing annually and threatening 1.3 billion people, they call on #COP30 to turn global commitments into local action, led by indigenous people and local communities as key stewards. Join CIRAD, IRD and IDLO - International Development Law Organization at #COP30 for the side event “Unlocking climate, biodiversity, and food synergies through community-led land actions” and explore how integrated, people-centred land solutions can drive the 2030 Agenda forward. 📍 Saturday, 15 November | 16:45–18:15 | Blue Zone – Room 08 Read the full policy brief here: https://lnkd.in/e_Z9YUe8 Catherine Aubertin (IRD), Vincent BLANFORT (Cirad), Jean Luc Chotte (IRD), Marie Hrabanski (Cirad), Johannes Svensson (BC3, IDDRI), LUU Paul (4p1000 Initiative). Daniel Eggleston (IDLO), Patrick CARON, Fabrice DeClerck, Sélim Louafi #SciencePolicySocietyInterfaces  #NexusActionMontpellierProcess

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In light of the concerning findings from the UNEP's latest #AdaptationGap report—showing #adaptation finance needs are 12-14 times higher than current funding—this new toolkit from the United Nations Environment Programme is truly the need of the time. I firmly believe that #metrics enabling #financialinstitutions to confidently assess, track, and report on climate risk, #sustainability, and #resilience are absolutely vital. ​It’s no longer enough to talk about climate risk; financial institutions are rightly expected to demonstrate how they are reducing it and #strengthening their performance. This toolkit provides the credible impact metrics needed to support stronger business cases, ensure #tangible results, and navigate the evolving landscape of #climate-risk disclosure requirements. ​I am personally looking forward to attending the live demo webinar to see these essential metrics in action! ​#ClimateRisk #SustainableFinance #Adaptation #Finance #ESG #Resilience #UNEP #climatechange #impact #KPIs #impactmetrics #communitydevelopment

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Have you heard about The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS)? Look it up in the context of certifying the sustainability of the restoration and land management projects. TRAFFIC is proud to support TGBS, in particular with the focus on sustainable harvesting and trade in wild species from re-wilded and restored landscapes (see here for our Toolkit, generously supported by the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme and Biodiversity Challenge Funds (under the Darwin Extra project which creates and supports TGBS): https://lnkd.in/ePjG9he9 Botanic Gardens Conservation International FairWild Foundation Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) IUCN SULi - Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group

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