How carbon finance can preserve forests and livelihoods

This week: Mike Korchinsky, founder and CEO of Wildlife Works, talks about how to use market mechanisms to develop effective forest conservation projects utilising climate finance and the voluntary carbon market. He argues why successful projects should community centred as well as biodiversity-driven and ecosystem based.

And, Innovation Forum’s Natasha Bodnar gives an update on the Future of Food event, coming up from the 10th-12th May.

Plus: insurance pay-outs for crop loss in the US impacted by climate change; global resource use hit all-time high in 2021, says Circle Economy; UK animal welfare legislation in doubt; and, Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index highlights human rights and forced labour hotspots, in the news digest.  

Host: Ian Welsh