Green Finance Observatory

For every $1 spent protecting nature, over $30 goes to damaging ecosystems, UN finds The private sector accounts for almost two-thirds of nature-harming finance Financing for activities that damage ecosystems is more than 30 times larger than investment in conservation, restoration an...

For every $1 spent protecting nature, over $30 goes to damaging ecosystems, UN finds. h/t
#ShiftHarmfulSubsidies #NoNeedForNatureCredits
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Climate - Prof Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
National Emergency Briefing
11 Dec 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z...

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Same story with plastic offsets that some oil producing countries and lobbies push as a way to avoid a global cap on plastic production. 3/3

I couldn't agree more, biodiversity credits/offsets are indeed imo mostly about protecting the status quo, i.e. helping maintain the social licence to operate for harmful activities, rather than curb them & shift public subsidies away from them and towards conservation. 2/3

World Economic Forum recommends tech firms buy #biodiversity offsets to address their impacts and dependencies on nature or "risk undermining their licence to operate." 1/3
carbon-pulse.com/464775/?site...

The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law - SOMO Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s flagship human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Dili...

The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...

to the weak additionality of maintenance credits, the allowance for the ex ante sale of credits and the absence of ban on secondary market trading. See our short brief: greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u... 2/2

Today the IAPB will host a session at #COP30 titled "IAPB Carbon & Biodiversity Credits – Integrity in Focus." Yet, their proposal for high integrity credits includes many features that arguably contradict the high integrity claim: from the allowance for offsetting, 1/2

NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Deregulation - the dark path to poison in your lungs, excrement in your rivers, carcinogens in your food.

A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.

Ahead of COP30, Brazil grants Petrobras a licence to drill for oil in Amazon region Brazil has authorised Petrobras to explore for oil off the Amazon coast, a move campaigners say undermines global climate goals

from the lack of ambition and generosity of Global North Countries, and from Brazil's recent granting of a new oil drilling licence in the Amazon region. 3/3
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/21/a...

it also relies on a contested free lunch assumption, and its expected returns are based on a ridiculously short 20 years data sample.
It is however a political success, in that it occupies a lot of media space and diverts attention... 2/3

Far from being a game changing innovation, the #TFFF launched at #COP30 is a cleverly packaged fund where conservation funding is conditional and the last wheel of the wagon; as payments for conservation come last and are first to be impacted in case of underperformance; 1/3

274 civil society organisations have already signed a manifesto opposing this false solution, designed primarily to protect the status quo and the profits of harmful activities. 2/2 www.biodmarketwatch.info

Today 9 Brazilian Amazon States are launching a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. If you want to know what biodiversity credits are and why they are a predictable environmental failure, read this comicbook: 1/2 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...

I wrote in English, not sure why it mentioned French

On 12 Nov 9 Brazilian Amazon States will launch a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. This feels like a good time to publish the last 2 chapters of our comicbook on biodiv credits: who promotes these markets, why, and what are the alternatives greenfinanceobservatory.org/50-shades-of...

In this sense, we understand the politics of biodiversity markets to be like that of carbon offsetting, namely to protect vested interests and the status quo for a few more years, but at the risk of threatening our own survival. 3/3
Our brief greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...

We note that privatising conservation policies will weaken them by introducing a profitability requirement.
We understand the main objective to be diverting the conversation away from the need to curb biodiversity destruction in EU, as doing so would hurt short-term growth and competitiveness. 2/3

EU’s roadmap for #naturecredits confirms the fears we expressed about the leaked version. We understand that #naturecredits will most likely be used as international compliance offsets. 1/3
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Will this be financed via redirecting existing harmful subsidies or via offset/credits schemes, as part of the forthcoming EU nature credits? 3/3

To what extent will this be instrumentalised to allow for more water pollution in the future linked to EU's reindustrialisation strategy and refusal to abandon its anachronic growth maximisation paradigm? 2/3

Today's EU session on creating a water smart economy leaves me with open questions; while I support the goal to increase water reuse, including through recovering phosphorus and nitrogen in water, I wonder: 1/3

We hope that references in the draft to “water resilience” and restoring “our natural water cycle” do not indicate a willingness to include water pollution offsetting within nature credits. 3/3
See our brief here greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...

which is not compatible with the public good nature of most ecosystems and would be a self-defeating strategy.
We understand the reference to a mitigation hierarchy to indicate that nature credits will come after – and thus legitimise – biodiversity offsetting. 2/3

EU's draft roadmap on #NatureCredits raises serious concerns and questions. We find that EU’s €37bn biodiversity funding gap could be closed entirely by redirecting existing subsidies to harmful activities, and doesn't require “making nature investable,” 1/3

the inadequate safeguards against conflicts of interest, the lack of legal liability in case of project failure contradict the claim that the credits will have high integrity. See our brief 4/4 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...

We find that the allowance for offsetting, for the ex-ante sale of credits, for secondary market trading, the very weak definition of additionality, the lack of minimum duration of the projects, 3/4

We find that while the report includes many well-meaning boilerplate statements, many critical concerns remain unaddressed and several features contradict the high integrity claims. 2/4