Tech for Trees is based on data developed by Prof. Bo Chen of the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing as part of a collaboration with the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) and the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA).
In The Impacts of Rural Credit on Agricultural Outcomes and Land Use, Climate Policy Initiative provides a detailed impact analysis of the Brazilian Rural Credit policy on agricultural production, land use and deforestation. The impact estimation is done separately for credit lines, producer types, and types of credit use.
The integration of biodiversity and sustainable landscapes objectives and considerations has the potential to increase the sustainability of programming, amplify results, and save costs. However, at other times, separate activities may make more sense in contexts where programmatic goals and requirements are not a natural fit. This document explores both the benefits and potential challenges of integrating biodiversity and sustainable landscapes objectives to help project staff make informed choices about whether and how to integrate.
This report examines on-going challenges for aligning land-use policy with biodiversity, climate, and food objectives and the opportunities to enhance the sustainability of land-use systems. It looks at six countries with relatively large agricultural and forestry sectors and associated greenhouse gas emissions, many of which also host globally important biodiversity.
This study, which calculates the economic cost of nature’s decline across 140 countries, shows that the loss of six ecosystem services under a business-as-usual trajectory leads to losses of US$9.87 trillion in real GDP by 2050. This represents an annual loss of US$479 billion per year. In contrast, under a scenario in which land-use is carefully managed to avoid further loss of areas important for biodiversity and ecosystem services, economic outcomes would be dramatically better, with global GDP rising by $490 billion per year above the business-as-usual calculation.