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The INVESTING IN RESILIENCE Project Portfolio 2024 outlines the activities of the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), which identifies and scales locally-led resilience innovations in the Global South through challenge fund competitions. The document highlights several active projects focusing on climate adaptation, food security, and sustainable finance across Africa, Asia, and South America, while detailing the funding requirements needed to scale these initiatives.

This briefing by the World Resources Institute argues that the United States should increase federal funding for research and at-sea testing of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to resolve uncertainties regarding its efficacy and environmental impacts.

This briefing from the World Resources Institute argues that carbon mineralization requires increased and customized federal policy support to reach its potential for large-scale carbon removal. While some funding exists through broad carbon removal initiatives, the document highlights a gap in dedicated support compared to technologies like direct air capture and outlines necessary advancements in research, deployment incentives, and safety regulations to scale the technology responsibly.

This fact sheet describes mass timber as a class of engineered wood building materials that offers a lower carbon footprint and potential cost-competitiveness compared to steel and concrete. It outlines the environmental benefits, construction advantages, and the current state of mass timber adoption and policy support in the United States.

This report presents a Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) assessment of nature-based infrastructure (NBI) and forest landscape restoration in the Peruvian Andes, specifically the Viridis Terra case, to estimate system-wide economic impacts and ecosystem services for climate adaptation.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative analyzes the economic viability of replacing extensive cattle ranching with large-scale forest restoration in the Brazilian Amazon through carbon credits. It proposes that a carbon price of US$ 20 per ton of CO2 captured via natural regeneration would make restoration more profitable than ranching across most of the region, potentially capturing 16 Gt of CO2 and avoiding 32 Gt of emissions over 30 years.

This research paper evaluates the sustainability, barriers, and opportunities for biochar production in Colombia, identifying it as a net-negative emissions technology with the potential to avoid CO2 emissions by transforming residual biomass.

This case study describes Octavia Carbon, a Kenya-based startup utilizing Direct Air Carbon Capture (DACC) technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. The company leverages Kenya's geothermal energy and basaltic rock geology to reduce the costs associated with carbon sequestration and industrial CO2 production.

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), administered by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers and nonindustrial forest managers to address natural resource concerns and deliver environmental benefits.

This fact sheet summarizes a Nature paper by World Resources Institute (WRI) researchers regarding the carbon costs of global wood harvests. The analysis finds that wood harvests significantly increase atmospheric carbon, contributing annual emissions that exceed 10% of recent human annual carbon dioxide emissions. The document critiques 'netting' approaches in prior research that treat wood harvests as carbon neutral by offsetting them against general forest growth, arguing that such growth would occur regardless of harvesting.

Carbon mineralization is a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) process that accelerates the reaction between CO2 and alkaline minerals (like those in basalt) to permanently store carbon as solid carbonates. While it offers potential co-benefits such as strengthened concrete and the neutralization of toxic mine tailings, scaling the technology poses risks including induced seismicity, high water usage in arid regions, and environmental impacts from increased mining. The document emphasizes the need for standardized measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) protocols and updated mineral mapping to scale the process responsibly.

This paper critiques a 2021 evidence review by Natural England titled "Carbon Storage and Sequestration by Habitat" (Gregg et al.), arguing that the review's methodology lacks transparency and misrepresents the role of prescribed fire in UK heather-dominated blanket bog peatlands.

This policy brief by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) examines how voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) can help reduce poverty among smallholder farmers. Based on a study of 13 major standard initiatives and 12 meta-studies, the document analyzes VSSs across three dimensions of poverty: access to resources, opportunities and choice, and power and voice. While VSSs can provide benefits such as better crop prices and improved natural resource management, the brief concludes that their overall impact on poverty reduction is inconclusive and context-specific, requiring significant external support from governments and the private sector to be effective.

This briefing describes the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), a USDA Forest Service initiative established in 2009 to fund science-based ecosystem restoration in priority forest landscapes to mitigate climate change and reduce wildfire risk.

This policy brief by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) evaluates the impact of the ABC Cerrado project on the adoption of sustainable pasture management in Brazil. The study finds that while training alone is effective for large-scale producers, small-scale producers require the addition of technical assistance to successfully implement sustainable practices. The document suggests a cost-effective policy approach of providing universal training while focalizing expensive technical assistance on smallholders.

The 2022 Forest Declaration Assessment executive summary evaluates global progress toward the 2030 goals of ending deforestation and restoring 350 million hectares of degraded land. The report concludes that the world is not on track to meet these targets, noting that global deforestation rates decreased only modestly in 2021 and that financial investments for forest protection remain critically insufficient.

The 2022 Forest Declaration Assessment is a civil society-led independent evaluation of progress toward global goals to stop deforestation and restore 350 million hectares of degraded land by 2030. The report concludes that the world is not currently on track to meet these targets, highlighting significant gaps in funding, governance, and corporate action across the agricultural, extractive, and infrastructure sectors.

The 2022 Forest Declaration Assessment executive summary evaluates global progress toward the 2030 goals of halting deforestation and restoring 350 million hectares of degraded land. It concludes that no single global indicator is currently on track to meet these targets, highlighting critical gaps in finance, corporate action, and governance.

The October 2022 Theme 1 report by the Forest Declaration Assessment evaluates global progress toward two primary 2030 goals: ending the loss and degradation of natural forests and restoring 350 million hectares of degraded landscapes and forestlands. The report concludes that no global indicator is currently on track to meet these targets, though it identifies regional variations and specific country successes.

The Rabobank Acorn Agroforestry Carbon Programme, supported by FSD Africa, utilizes a technology-enabled marketplace for carbon sequestration to provide financial sustainability for smallholder farmers in Africa transitioning to agroforestry. The program leverages carbon credits as Payment for Ecological Services (PES) to monetize natural capital, with pilot phase activities including the disbursement of carbon loans and technical training in Zambia, Kenya, and Nigeria.