Part 4 of 4: Resilience for Nature-Based Solutions: Insights from People and Nature For decades, the dominant logic of global business has been efficiency. It made sense at the time as companies optimized their operating models to deliver quickly and reduced costs within their supply chains to ensure competitiveness. This
It’s been exactly six years since I first started thinking about an organization like Nature For Justice. With the help of others — including Frank Hicks and many more — that loose concept became reality just two months later when I wrote my first blog post, “Help People Where They
In a world of political division and shrinking resources, hope can feel in short supply. At Nature For Justice, we believe it isn’t. But hope alone isn’t enough — it has to be built on the right foundation. We are the emerging leadership of Nature For Justice, and we believe
Summary Drawing on her experiences at the Pew Charitable Trusts, USAID, and in strategic consulting, Annette Labiano argues that public policy advocates can achieve lasting environmental wins by embracing the same operational discipline that drives business success. Through rigorous measurement, transparent accountability, continuous iteration, based on regularly renewed written strategies, advocates
Part 3 of 4: Resilience for Nature-Based Solutions: Insights from People and Nature One of the key reasons why humans are so successful at driving progress is our capacity to share knowledge and innovations with others – ideas which live on and are passed down to new generations, shaping the
Part 2 of 4: Resilience for Nature-Based Solutions: Insights from People and Nature Resilience is often talked about as something that can be measured, compared, and tracked. But for the farmers living with climate volatility, market shocks, and political instability, resilience is not a score – it is a set
Part 1 of 4: Resilience for Nature-Based Solutions: Insights from People and Nature The term ‘resilience’ has become a cornerstone of global conversations on climate adaptation, sustainable development, and social justice. It is the quality we seek to build into our economies, infrastructures, food systems and ecosystems. Yet, for a
Five years ago, we founded Nature For Justice (N4J) to answer a simple but urgent question: How can frontline communities most affected by climate change benefit directly from the billions flowing into nature-based solutions (NbS)? What began as an exploration of carbon markets quickly became a deeper lesson: carbon credits
By Nicci Mander and Hank Cauley Climate-impacted communities can harness nature to build resilience and enhance well-being alongside contributing to global climate mitigation objectives. This use of nature-based solutions to advance social justice lies at the heart of Nature For Justice’s (N4J) global mission. But for external stakeholders supporting such
Terra Global Capital’s paper Best Practices for Delivering a Just Transition through NbS Climate Finance describes the historical origins of the “Just Transition” and how, especially since COP28, Just Transition is being interpreted and applied to our global actions. Terra Global Capital asserts that while there is an impetus for
