The Salazar Center staff collect reports, blogs, webinars, external sources and other resources to get you ready to dive into the Symposium themes and agenda.
Articles
- Bloomberg: Biodiversity Beats Climate when it comes to swaying republican lawmakers
- Center for American Progress: Why Conserving 30×30 Is More Than a Numbers Game
- Commission for Environmental Cooperation: Your Environment is Changing StoryMap
- The Conversation: Weaving Indigenous and western ways of knowing can help Canada achieve its biodiversity goals
- ESG Investor: FUND SOLUTIONS: Regenerative Fund Combines Forests, Farming and Carbon Removal
- Greenpeace International: What is wrong with “Nature Positive”?
- The Guardian: Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows
- Indigenous Environmental Network: Nature Based Solutions series
- Inside Climate News: ‘Rewilding’ Parts of the Planet Could Have Big Climate Benefits
- Mongabay: Forest carbon offsets are a tool, not a silver bullet (commentary)
- The Nature Conservancy: New Nature Conservancy Study Says America Can Go Carbon-Free By 2050 While Benefiting Conservation and Communities
- NetworkNature: Leaving no one behind: Towards inclusive nature-based solutions
- Pollination Group: Post Cop15 Global Biodiversity Framework
- Reuters: Twenty-five trailblazing women leading the fight against climate change
- US Nature 4 Climate: Glossary of Natural climate solutions terms
- USDA: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Steps for Climate Resilience and Forest Conservation
- World Bank: What You Need to Know About Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development: A Nature Positive World: The Global Goal for Nature
- World Economic Forum: What is nature positive and why is it the key to our future?
- World Resources Institute: The Benefits and Power of Assisted Natural Regeneration
- WWF Canada: What is restoration? A look at one of nature conservation’s most critical tools
Case Studies
Mexico
- International Climate Initiative: Cities as a starting point for climate action in Mexico
- Mongabay: Meet the ‘forest fishers’ restoring mangroves and livelihoods in Mexico
- Sierra Gorda Alliance: PES and Conservation in Biosphere Reserve
Canada
- The Conversation: How climate change is impacting the Hudson Bay Lowlands — Canada’s largest wetland
- The Globe and Mail: Nature group buys sensitive Vancouver Island habitat to ensure it remains undeveloped
- Science X: New report turns to nature to limit Canada's costliest climate impact—flooding
- WWF Canada: Sowing Change: How canadian farmers are addressing the biodiversity and climate crises
United States
Podcasts
- Engineering With Nature (series)
- S1 E9: Collaborating With Industry To Promote Natural Infrastructure
- S5 E5: Accelerating NBS Progress Through N-EWN Multisectoral Collaboration
- S5 E9: Foundational Research On Rebalancing With Blue Carbon
- PwC Accounting (episode): Biodiversity/ Nature-positive Series (5 episodes)
- Stockholm Environment Institute (episode): Nature-based solutions – spotlight on social equity, finance and scale
- Solving Climate, Naturally (series)
- Episode 03: Sizing the Prize and Unlocking Natural Climate Solutions at Scale with Bronson Griscom, Senior Director of NCS at Conservation International
- Episode 11: Unlocking Capital for Nature with Megan Reilly-Clayton episode
Documentaries & Recordings
- Carbon Cowboys (documentary)
- International Institute for Sustainable Development (webinar recording): Canada’s Action on Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation
- World Resources Institute (webinar recording): 3 Breakthroughs to Transform Climate Finance
Throughout the 2023 Symposium, speakers shared a wide array of resources that support their work around nature-based solutions and the themes referenced in the report. While this list does not represent the full extent of readings available, for readers hoping to learn more about the different topics related to climate and biodiversity work, we recommend the following supplementary resources.
From the Salazar Center