By Ahmed Aziz in Ghana and Jonathan Jones in South Africa ‘You must act as if it is impossible to fail.’ This Ashanti saying encapsulates the spirit of many cocoa farmers in Ghana, where the frequency and severity of extreme weather events have only intensified. A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report exposes the worst … Continued
In March, the Landscape Resilience Fund team was delighted to discover it had been nominated for this year’s prestigious Earthshot Prize by two Official Nominators: the communications agency Project Everyone and Lancaster University’s Centre for Global Eco-Innovation. The Earthshot Prize was launched by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in October 2020 and designed to … Continued
A crescendo of extreme weather events witnessed across the world exposes the urgency of investing in climate adaptation. In response to this challenge Landscape Resilience Fund (LRF) has made its first investment in Koa, a Swiss-Ghanain sustainable cocoa fruit company. The $3.5 million investment, made alongside co-investors IDH Farmfit Fund, will support Koa to set … Continued
If there is one key takeaway from the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the impacts of climate change it is: large scale investment in adaptation is urgent and lives and livelihoods are at stake. The report exposes that as many as 3.6 billion people now live in landscapes that are … Continued
Climate adaptation remains grossly underfinanced, even while extreme weather events continue to disrupt their supply chains. As warmer and wilder weather rips through critical food crops and rattles corporate supply chains, disrupting supplies of everything from chocolate to lumber, it has become painfully clear that the world is well off the mark when it comes to taking the … Continued
Seed funding to support coral reef insurance, supply-chain resilience, and other climate risk remedies for entrepreneurs, food producers, cities, local communities. Nespresso, South Pole, MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative, and Willis Towers Watson were among those announced today as winners of the Global Environment Facility’s inaugural Challenge Program for Adaptation Innovation, a new competition supporting private … Continued
Reducing carbon emissions to net zero is now as urgent as ever – but so is adjusting to the hazards of a warming world. The new Landscape Resilience Fund with South Pole, WWF, GEF and Chanel uses blended finance to help the communities that are most vulnerable to climate risks. Blended finance catalyses adaptation, manages … Continued
WWF and South Pole today launched the Landscape Resilience Fund (LRF) to tackle the impact of climate change head-on. With the support of the Global Environment Facility and the commitment of Chanel as anchor investor, the fund is ready to rally more institutions to invest in a resilient future. The LRF, which will be managed … Continued