Updates - Climate and Land Use Alliance

CLUA Position Opening: Brazil Initiative Lead

The Brazil Initiative Lead will coordinate grantmaking and non-grantmaking activities to implement the current Brazil Initiative strategy, and will also lead the development and implementation of a new Brazil Initiative strategy for the period from 2024-2030. LEARN MORE »

CLUA Position Opening: Executive Assistant

The Executive Assistant to the Director of Programs plays a key administrative role on the CLUA team, leading schedule coordination, arranging travel, preparing meeting logistics and materials, and generally coordinating with the CLUA teams. LEARN MORE »

Welcoming CLUA’s new Director of Programs Carolina Zambrano-Barragan

Carolina Zambrano-Barragán, CLUA’s new Director of Programs, has a deep commitment to climate action, human rights, and conservation. She's held leadership positions in the public, philanthropic, and non-profit sectors contributing to sustainability, advancing rights, and climate resilient development in Latin America and globally. LEARN MORE »

Climate & Forests 2030 – Resources for Funders

Climate & Forests 2030 is a set of resources aimed at mobilizing finance to help realize the potential of forests to mitigate climate change, benefit people, and protect nature. The materials include a list of 10 priorities for funders and information on what’s needed to meet them. LEARN MORE »

Afforestation & Reforestation: Restoring trees to ecologically suitable landscapes

Afforestation, reforestation and other practices that restore trees to landscapes offer relatively low-cost carbon removal opportunities that are ready to implement. But these practices must be done in socially and environmentally responsible ways with project oversight and policy safeguards. LEARN MORE »

Welcoming CLUA’s new Executive Director Lindsey Allen

Lindsey Allen is starting as CLUA’s new Executive Director. Lindsey comes to CLUA with a deep commitment to forests, climate, and rights, including leadership roles at Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace USA. LEARN MORE »

Peatland Rewetting: Reversing the environmental impacts of peatland drainage

Peatlands hold a disproportionate share of the world’s soil carbon stocks, but commercial interests are turning these environmental assets into long-term sources of emissions by draining soil and degrading ecosystems. Restoring natural water flow and saturating peatland through a process commonly referred to as “rewetting” can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, slow subsidence and reduce the risk of wildfire. LEARN MORE »

Urgent investments in carbon dioxide removal offer big returns for climate, jobs and post-COVID-19 recovery, says Economist Intelligence Unit research synthesis

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Global Forest Carbon

Forests naturally remove about 11.7 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year – roughly a third of total fossil fuel emissions.[1] This basic fact means that, if the world’s forests didn’t exist, there would be a lot more CO2 in the atmosphere, and the oceans would be considerably more acidified. LEARN MORE »

Investing in Carbon Removal: Demystifying Existing Approaches

According to a new research synthesis by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and ClimateWorks Foundation, investments are urgently needed to rapidly develop and scale up the carbon dioxide (CO₂) removal solutions critical to reaching net zero emissions globally by 2050. The findings were released in a new online hub, “Investing in Carbon Removal: Demystifying Existing Approaches” available at carbonremoval.economist.com LEARN MORE »