World Bank launches unified data system for carbon markets; see other highlights Curto Verde

🌳 World Bank launches database for carbon markets

O World Bank launched a global tracking system to provide more transparency to carbon credit market and help developing countries obtain climate finance with the tool, quickly and cheaply.

The new database, the Climate Action Data Trust (CAD Trust), aims to address these issues by bringing together all project data and carbon credits in one place, making it free to the public and making it easier for companies and countries to share data.

🌡️ Forest Code Thermometer

Brazil will have available, starting next week, a free and updated digital platform with data on vegetation coverage throughout the national territory from the perspective of Forest Code, which completed 10 years of validity in 2022.

Call of Forest Code Thermometer, the new platform will be launched next Friday (16) by Forest Code Observatory: a network of 43 entities linked to environmental issues created with the aim of monitoring the implementation of the Forestry Law, defending vegetation and sustainable production in the country.

The tool was developed by Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) and aims to offer a reliable and transparent platform, with simple access, easy understanding and that allows a real reading of the map of the effective application of the new Forest Code, facilitating the planning of environmental actions in the country.

📣 Civil society wants to be heard at COP15

Protests, public debates and film screenings are on the other side of the dome COP15, where NGOs organize to create awareness about the need to protect biodiversity. The goal is to push for a major agreement to be reached.

Another COP? Understand the importance of COP15 on biodiversity

After the Climate Summit in Egypt (COP27), the world turns to the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), which takes place from December 7th to 19th in Montreal, Canada. Plans to protect the natural world and prevent its destruction will be discussed. O Curto explain!

Around 60 events are scheduled around the Montreal conference, such as meetings open to the public, workshops and an immersive projection on the impact of oil drilling on whales.

To organize and amplify their voices, more than a hundred organizations recently came together to create the “COP15 Collective” ahead of the conference, which takes place from December 7th to 19th in Montreal. And them promeYou have to make yourself heard, whether at the convention center, where delegates meet, or by participating in the negotiation process, or by protesting in the streets.

The most important event will probably be the “great march for the living”, planned for December 10th in the center of the Canadian city.

🏝️ Submerged future

Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Maldives are among the island nations that scientists believe could be completely submerged by the year 2100. But is their fate inevitable? This Friday’s episode (9) of “The Inquiry“, from the British BBC network, seeks to discover how rising sea levels are threatening the existence of entire countries and what their governments are trying to do about it. Worth checking out! 🎧

Countries existing only in the metaverse? Is this the future that awaits us?

Little Tuvalu, an island located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, was the first nation to create an entire version of itself in the metaverse. The government decided to take this initiative due to the real threat of the group of islands disappearing if climate change causes a rise in sea levels.

(To AFP)

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