Our approach
Fair Environmental Markets Initiative aims
Fairness
Promote fair environmental market opportunities for developing high-quality, sustainable projects that benefit grassroots communities.
Transparency
Ensure traceability and access to information on projects and transactions of environmental assets.
Environmental Integrity
Conduct all projects and initiatives transparently and ethically, ensuring environmental integrity.
Holistic Approach
Integrate multiple perspectives and disciplines to tackle the global environmental crisis, promoting fairness and effectiveness.
COP16 Peace with nature
Amplifying the Global South’s Voice
EMFF’s participates as observers at COP16, held in Cali, Colombia, from October 21 to November 1. This pivotal summit, following the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, unites global leaders to advance biodiversity’s role in climate action and sustainability.
Led by our director, Patricio Lombardi, our team will advocate for fair, transparent environmental markets and amplify the voices of the Global South, home to over 80% of Earth’s biodiversity. We look forward to contributing to the discussions on protecting our planet’s natural capital.
Our participation at COP16: Integral Ecology and Biodiversity Financing
COP16 | Cali, Colombia | October 21 to November 1, 2024. Environmental Market Fairness Foundation (EMFF), actively participated in the […]
EMFF Participates as an Observer at COP16 on Biodiversity
COP16 | Cali, Colombia | October 21 to November 1, 2024. We are pleased to announce our participation as observers […]
Biodiversity: Key to the Global Environmental Crisis – Terra Tuscany 2024
Villa Lena, Tuscany, Italy | Sept 2-4, 2024. Biodiversity: The Key to Solving the Global Environmental Crisis – Our Role […]
Partnering for Nature: Biodiversity Credits at COP16
Partnering for Nature: Launch of Biodiversity Credits in South American Forests at COP16. COP16 | Cali, Colombia | October 21 […]
The initiative
How was the initiative born?
The Fair Environmental Markets Initiative aims for the emergence of a scheme of Fairness and Transparency that encourages active engagement of local communities, environmental integrity and equitable distribution of benefits of carbon projects.
It is a strategic partnership forged between regions, governments, private sector, organizations (NGO/IGO) mostly from West Africa and Latin America, strengthened as the trustees of the planet’s major remnants of primary forests and biodiversity, these regions have the opportunity to position themselves as environmental creditors and pioneer a holistic approach towards carbon markets.
❝ Major international consulting firms and multilateral banks estimate that half of the global GDP depends on nature. I ask them, what does the other half depend on? It’s unimaginable that in the 21st century we still don’t understand that all human activity, directly or indirectly, relies on some service provided by nature. ❞