While governments, civil society and consumers all have important roles to play in accelerating natural climate solutions (NCS), corporates are key to driving the required investment to scale NCS to meet their full climate mitigation potential, and many corporates are starting to consider the role of NCS in their decarbonization strategies.
This document published by the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance provides a high-level guide to the credible use of NCS credits by corporates. It focuses on demand-side eligibility, supply-side quality, markets and policy, and communicating climate strategies that include NCS.
It is essential that clear and trusted guidance is provided to give corporates the confidence they need to invest in NCS, while ensuring that rigorous environmental and social safeguards are maintained. Not only do NCS have the potential to address the driving cause of the climate crisis, they also carry the potential to build resilient and biodiverse ecosystems for generations to come.