Global leaders have committed to halting and reversing the ongoing degradation of nature within the next few decades. But with tight public budgets, governments around the world are looking towards ...

Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors ...

Could farmers get money for protecting birds or plants? That's the hope of the European Union, which is seeking to monetise biodiversity by creating a market for "nature credits". The European ...

The European Union will develop rules for ‘nature credits’ that pay farmers and foresters to take care of ecosystems, in an attempt to make this work more economically beneficial, the European ...

Biodiversity credits will be on the table for discussion at this month's UN biodiversity summit in Colombia - Copyright AFP/File MAURO PIMENTEL Biodiversity credits ...

The EU must create new financial tools to reward farmers who contribute to reversing biodiversity loss and climate breakdown, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said today (13 ...

Leading ecologists have devised a new framework to classify how biodiversity credit operators define what a unit of nature is. The new analysis demonstrates the challenges involved with devising a ...

Sophus zu Ermgassen receives funding from NERC and the EU Horizon 2020 programme. He is on the EU Commission's expert group for the EU Nature Credits Roadmap. Global leaders have committed to halting ...

For supporters, biodiversity credits could unlock billions in much-needed funding for nature, but critics fear a repeat of scandals that have dogged other financial approaches to protecting the ...