At the end of September, Net Impact Amsterdam members are invited to visit the Texel salt water farms. In preparation, we wanted to learn more about saline farming and how it can help solve some of our biggest agricultural challenges: scarcity of freshwater and land. As sea levels rise, so Read more…
This ‘Impact From Home’ session features Vincent Cornelissen, Secretary International Division of the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP) and Project Manager of the Young Experts Programme (YEP) Water. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of the challenges that our planet faces. We must, therefore, refocus our attention on the Read more…
In this ‘Impact From Home’ we talk with carbon policy and intervention expert, Adriaan Korthuis, Co-Founder and Director of Climate Focus. As Adriaan is a true expert in all things carbon markets, we will discuss the in’s and out’s of carbon credits and offsetting, cap and trade schemes, and other Read more…
Nearly half of all human beings are directly dependent on natural resources for their livelihood. However, biodiversity is in severe decline due to a combination of conflicting private and public interests, incoherent policy and governance, and insufficient financing. Onno van den Heuvel presents how BIOFIN works with countries to develop Read more…
This ‘Impact From Home’ features Brad Vanstone, Founder of Willicroft (Plant Based Cheese), hosted by Cathy Sorbara, Vice President of Net Impact Amsterdam. Brad is real force to be reckoned with. Building a business that puts sustainability at the absolute centre (Mother Nature is the company’s board appointed CEO) takes Read more…
This ‘Impact From Home’ features Felipe Villela, CCO and Co-founder of reNature. reNature believes that nature and agriculture can cooperate instead of compete and that farmers and local communities across the globe deserves a long-term profitable future. That’s why they focus on Regenerative Agroforestry. But what exactly does that mean? Read more…
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of today. Its impacts are already being felt by people and nature across the globe, with developing countries being most affected. The Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) enables private sector investment in projects aimed at climate adaptation and mitigation in Read more…
Are we looking down the barrel of a global food crisis? Is localising and democratising food production the answer? To explore these questions, Net Impact Amsterdam President, Andrea Palmer, spoke to Suzanne Oommen of Cityplot, a specialised urban gardening and education group. Cityplot believes that it is possible to grow healthy organic food on all scales in and around the city: from private growing spaces to community gardens, from schools and restaurants to large-scale urban food growing projects.
High-functioning forest ecosystems, grounded in high quality soil, are precious assets that are here to help us combat climate change. But they are in poor health. In our quest to heal them, we wonder, how technology can be applied to help these natural systems achieve their highest potential? Read our interview with Nadine Galle, CEO of Green City Watch.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, better known as the IPCC, released its special report on climate change and land last week. This paramount publication testifies to the ways in which how we use our land contributes to climate change, and how climate change contributes to the health of our land.