Offsets alone won't cut it when it comes to our mitigation efforts. What more must we do? On the podcast today, we have Edit Kiss, Chief Investment Officer at London’s Revalue Nature. She talks to us about incentivizing and accounting for efforts in carbon reduction, the complexity of the exercise, and the public discourse around it. 

Shownotes:

• UNEP Report on “State of Finance for Nature”: https://www.unep.org/resources/state-finance-nature
• SBTi FLAG (Science Based Targets Initiative: Forest Land and Agriculture): https://sciencebasedtargets.org/
• Tropical Forest Alliance: https://www.tropicalforestalliance.org/
• John Oliver on Carbon Offsets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0

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What can a formal financing programme for regenerative agriculture look like? Arindom Datta, Executive Director of Rural and Development Banking and Advisory at Rabobank, tells us in this episode. He talks to us about impact monitoring, agreeing on terminologies and definitions, and his optimism for RegAg financing in India. 

Shownotes:

• The Blended Finance initiative from the Impact Investors Council: https://blendedfinanceindia.org/industry-insight.html
• MFI: Microfinance Institution
• LP: Limited Partnership

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What do we incentivize when we incentivize regenerative agriculture? Our guest on the Season 2 opener today, Climate Farmers co-founder Ivo Degn, offers his analysis on this issue. He also talks to us about farmers earning carbon credits, the changing attitudes of investors when it comes to regenerative agriculture, and our options as a planet if we want to continue feeding ourselves. 

Shownotes:

• Climate Farmers: https://www.climatefarmers.org/
• The History of Carbon Offsetting: https://impactful.ninja/the-history-of-carbon-offsetting/
• Nori Carbon Removal Marketplace, USA: https://nori.com/
• Project Together: https://projecttogether.org/

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