Natural climate solutions (NCS), include actions that protect healthy ecosystem, improve the management of working lands, and restore all types of land and coastal ecosystem; they can provide around 30% of the emissions reductions needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C by 2030. In addition, they provide many socio-economic and environmental benefits, such as the preservation and restoration of biodiversity, the provision of ecosystem services and supporting sustainable livelihoods. But despite their vast potential, NCS attract very little public and private investment.
The NCS Alliance (NCSA) has been established to convey the voice of businesses, NGOs and solution providers on the need to mobilize a high-integrity demand for high-quality NCS. The NCS Alliance focuses on identifying opportunities and barriers to investment in the NCS voluntary carbon market and also serves as a forum for knowledge sharing and technical capacity building to ensure natural climate solutions reach their full potential in abating climate change.
Learn more
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Learn more about NCS and the Voluntary Carbon Market
- NCS credits contribute to mitigating climate change; to promoting biodiversity conservation and supporting sustainable development and livelihoods for local communities and Indigenous People. Read NCS in Action and watch this video.
- The urgency of the climate crisis requires that businesses demonstrate leadership by counterbalancing year-on-year their annual unabated emissions through the purchase of high-quality Natural Climate Solutions carbon emissions reduction and removal credits. Read Natural Climate Solutions and the Voluntary Carbon Market: A Guide for C-suite Executives and watch this video.
- Businesses should plan and implement a procurement strategy designed to identify high quality Natural Climate Solutions credits and avoid the reputational risks associated with purchasing low-quality carbon credits. Read A Buyer’s Guide to Natural Climate Solutions Carbon Credits, watch this video and hear from businesses who are NCS Leaders.
- Learn more about the procurement process for NCS credits by visiting the NCS Procurement Hub.
- Learn about the many acronyms associated with Natural Climate Solutions voluntary carbon credits. Watch this video and learn what NCS, VCM, IC VCM, CCP, IPLC, FPIC, REDD+, J-REDD, VCMI, BVCM mean.
Organisation
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The Natural Climate Solutions Alliance is convened by:
Solutions
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Why Natural Climate Solutions?
NCS interventions are diverse – spanning the protection and conservation, sustainable management and restoration of ecosystems across geographies and socio-economic contexts. These characteristics are important to understand as they ultimately influence the potential biodiversity gains and benefits to people that projects and programs can achieve.
NCS in Action are examples of a diverse range of NCS projects that deliver carbon credits through the protection, improved management and restoration of nature.
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NCSA Members
Business | NGO | Solution Providers |
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Bank of America | Arbor Day | Abatable |
Bain | BirdLife International | AgriProve |
BCG | CERES | Agrosmart |
Bayer Ag | EDF | American Carbon Registry (ACR) |
BP | Fauna & Flora International | American Forest Foundation |
DBS | Conservation International | Anew Climate |
ENEL | The Nature Conservancy | Arcmor |
ENI | Mandai Nature | Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) |
Equinor | Wildlife Conservation Society | Carbon Tanzania |
ERM | World Resources Institute | Chloris Geospatial |
GSK | Climate Action Reserve | |
Leaseplan | ClimateImpact | |
Lenzing | Climate Impact X | |
Mars | CQuestCapital | |
McKinsey & Co. | EcoTree | |
Mitsubishi Corp. | Ecosphere + | |
Nestlé | Emergent | |
Nutrien | Everland | |
PwC | Gold Standard Foundation | |
Rabobank | Indigo Ag | |
Rio Tinto | Integrity Global Partners | |
Shell | Kita Earth | |
Unilever | Native | |
IETA/ICROA | New Forests | |
OCGI | Permian Global | |
REDD+ Business Initiative | PT Rimba | |
IBCSD | PlanVivo Foundation | |
We Are Level | Respira International | |
Revalue Nature | ||
South Pole | ||
Sylvera | ||
Thallo | ||
The Palladium Group | ||
The Biodiversity Consultancy | ||
Viresco Solutions | ||
Vertree | ||
Verra | ||
Weyerhaeuser | ||
Wildlife Works |
The path to sustainability: An interview with ERM’s Linden Edgell on nature as a corporate climate solution
4 April, 2024
New Buyer’s Guide to Natural Climate Solutions carbon credits
15 March, 2023
Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCSA) recommends annual unabated emissions compensation for businesses
22 September, 2022
Natural Climate Solutions and the Voluntary Carbon Market
21 September, 2022
Natural Climate Solutions for the Voluntary Carbon Market: An Investor Guide for Companies and Financial Institutions
27 June, 2024
Natural Climate Solutions Alliance IN PROGRESS
15 May, 2023