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The 'Todos al Parque' program in Barranquilla, Colombia, has transformed 258 public spaces since 2011, focusing on the city's most deprived neighborhoods through a co-design process with residents. By increasing green space from 0.86m² to a level where 93% of households are within an 8-minute walk of a park, the initiative has reduced crime, improved public health, and increased tax compliance. The program's success led to the creation of a regional network of 'biodivercities' involving eight Latin American cities and inspired a similar state-level program in the Atlántico Department.

The letter calls for the final adoption of a proposed EU law to break the link between food production and deforestation, emphasizing that forests are critical for climate change mitigation and biodiversity. It highlights that a small number of commodities—including cattle, cocoa, coffee, maize, palm oil, soy, rubber, and wood—drive the majority of forest destruction. The authors argue that mandatory rules for product origin and production checks are necessary to ensure corporate accountability and prevent human rights abuses against Indigenous Peoples.

The document examines international development finance for nature-based solutions (NbS) in developing countries, particularly least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS). It highlights the difficulty of accurately quantifying NbS funding and suggests that current estimates may mask a significant finance gap if projects are not explicitly designed to deliver both biodiversity and human benefits.

ClientEarth warns that the UK government is in breach of the Environment Act 2021 due to missed deadlines for environmental targets and the Environmental Principles Policy Statement. The organization argues that these delays, combined with the 'sunset' provisions of the Retained EU Law Bill, risk a governance gap where EU-derived environmental protections are revoked before domestic replacements are fully operational.

The briefing argues that the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill could weaken UK pesticide regulation by granting ministers broad powers to revoke or amend EU-derived laws via secondary legislation with limited scrutiny. It highlights risks such as the 'sunset' clause causing accidental law expiry and the potential shift from a 'hazard-based' to a 'risk-based' authorisation approach. Specifically, the document warns that the Bill could be used to relax restrictions on neonicotinoids, contradicting the UK's 25 Year Environment Plan and the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement.

Friends of the Earth International calls for a Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) that prioritizes absolute biodiversity loss reversal, the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and strict government regulation of corporations. The organization rejects 'false solutions' such as biodiversity offsets, nature-based solutions used for carbon capture, and corporate self-regulation, while advocating for a transition to agroecology and the provision of new, additional public financial resources for developing countries.

The document outlines a comprehensive framework for monitoring and evaluating climate change adaptation in Vietnam. It details a six-step M&E process, provides specific indicators for central and local government levels across multiple sectors, and describes the operation of an online reporting system managed by the Department of Climate Change.

The report details a co-creation process between Kalmar municipality and the Stockholm Environment Institute to align a new mobility strategy with the Agenda 2030 goals. The strategy aims for a transport mode split of 60% walking, cycling, and public transport and 40% cars by 2035. Analysis indicates strong positive impacts on public health and sustainable cities, though risks include social polarization among car-dependent groups and potential conflicts over land use for biodiversity. Key recommendations include implementing '15-minute city' planning, enhancing fossil-free maritime transport, and using life-cycle analyses in procurement.

The guide outlines five principles for corporate climate leadership: reducing emissions in own business, cutting land-based emissions in value chains, investing in nature-based solutions beyond value chains, ensuring responsible policy engagement, and reporting transparently. It emphasizes that investments in nature-based solutions, such as high-quality carbon credits, must complement rather than replace deep decarbonization efforts. The document argues that scaling these investments is essential to meet Paris Agreement goals, noting that nature-based solutions currently receive only 3% of climate finance despite representing about 30% of the climate solution.

The report outlines the activities of the St. Louis Controlled Environment Agriculture (STLCEA) Coalition, which selected AeroFarms to develop a large-scale commercial vertical farm and community-based farms in the St. Louis region. It evaluates various energy strategies to reduce the high carbon footprint of indoor farming, including the use of stranded assets like river cooling, underwater turbines, and waste-to-energy systems. Additionally, the document describes the establishment of a Center of Excellence (CoE) led by The Yield Lab Institute to foster knowledge sharing and technological innovation in the fragmented CEA industry while addressing food insecurity and racial inequality in north St. Louis.

Daniela Gomel of Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina coordinates a Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) pilot project aimed at reducing illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. The project utilizes an e-logbook system for reporting fishing information at the capture stage to address collusion between vessel captains and inspectors. Gomel's work involves advocating for traceability regulations in Argentina, engaging with ship owners and captains, and adapting narratives to navigate the sensitivity of the term 'corruption' when working with stakeholders.

The document serves as a practical guide for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Serbia to navigate the complex legal framework of spatial and urban planning. It details the hierarchy of planning documents—from the national Spatial Plan of the Republic of Serbia to Detailed Regulation Plans—and outlines the stages of their adoption, including early public inspection and expert control. Through three case studies (Kučaj-Beljanica, Ovčarsko-Kablarska klisura, and Parkovi Vrnjačke Banje), the manual illustrates common illegalities, such as the disregard for conservation studies and the manipulation of building heights to bypass ministerial jurisdiction. It emphasizes the importance of networking, precise legal argumentation in objections, and the strategic use of access-to-information requests to prevent environmental degradation and policy capture.

The report analyzes the 'Nature Positive' concept, which aims to stop and reverse biodiversity loss. It argues that the term is vaguely defined and relies on 'net gain' accounting, which allows for the continued destruction of ecosystems if compensated elsewhere. The authors contend that such offsetting is often technically impossible, particularly in forest and marine ecosystems, and frequently leads to human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples and local communities. The document further asserts that the concept is pushed by the private sector to avoid strong regulations and to create new business opportunities, while failing to integrate the rights and knowledge of those who protect 80% of existing biodiversity.

In 2021, IDFC members committed a record USD 224 billion in green finance, a 21% increase from 2020. Climate finance dominated the total at 95% (USD 212.7 billion), with mitigation finance reaching a peak of USD 186.6 billion. Conversely, adaptation finance fell by 24% to USD 20.9 billion, largely due to a 50% drop in disaster risk reduction commitments. Biodiversity projects saw growth, reaching USD 18.4 billion.

The Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) challenge, a partnership between the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and Shockwave Foundation, supports agricultural entrepreneurs in East Africa. The program identifies seed-level innovative ideas that build resilience and protect biodiversity, providing winners with mentoring, leadership training, and investment brokering to make their projects 'funding-ready'. Between 6 and 10 winners will be selected based on criteria including impact, innovation, equity, and profitability, receiving support from March to December 2023 and potential next-stage funding for implementation and scaling.

The People's Accord towards a New Social Contract argues that radical structural change through new social contracts—covenants between citizens, states, businesses, and nature—is the only way to achieve a just transition and prevent societal collapse. It advocates for the use of mechanisms such as citizen assemblies, ecological constitutions, and just transition plans to rebuild trust and democratic accountability.

Carbon Market Watch analyzes a leaked draft of the EU's Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF), warning that the proposal fails to define permanent storage, lacks liability rules for carbon reversals, and ignores social safeguards. While the author notes positive environmental sustainability objectives, they argue the framework risks certifying temporary removals as permanent and could allow agricultural emission reductions to be mislabeled as removals, potentially undermining EU climate targets.

The document argues that the Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) must prioritize deep emission reductions over removals and exclude the use of removal offsets to avoid carbon pricing or emission cuts. It calls for a strict definition of permanence in storage, the exclusion of short-term bio-based materials from permanent storage targets, and the removal of Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM) from the CRCF's scope. The authors emphasize that certification should be limited to low-reversal risk approaches—such as geological storage and rewetted peatlands—while requiring robust social and environmental safeguards to prevent land grabbing and biodiversity loss.

The report argues that while shifting toward plant-based diets and away from industrial meat production is urgently needed for environmental and health reasons, such transitions must be planned inclusively to protect vulnerable stakeholders. It applies the 'just transition' framework—previously established in the energy sector—to the meat sector to ensure costs and benefits are evenly distributed among consumers, farmers, workers, communities, and companies.

The document argues for an urgent shift toward plant-based diets and away from industrial meat production due to environmental and health impacts. It emphasizes that because meat supply chains support numerous livelihoods and cultural traditions, policies to reduce production must be inclusive and carefully planned to ensure costs and benefits are distributed equitably and vulnerable stakeholders are protected.