Climate change & energy
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Why Blue Carbon needs to be on the climate agenda
Carbon stored in mangroves and wetlands (known as blue carbon) is playing an increasingly prominent role in discussions about the…
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Moving forward on gender equality in forestry
A conversation with Carol J. Pierce Colfer (CIFOR/Cornell University), with contributions from Seema Arora-Jonsson (Swedish University of Life Sciences), Markus…
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Scientists from CIFOR-ICRAF showed examples of successful restoration techniques at the Global Landscapes Forum
A team of four scientists from the merged Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) impressed delegates…
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It’s time for individually determined contributions to reducing emissions
The director-general of World Agroforestry (ICRAF) introduces the Global Landscapes Forum in New York City with a call for immediate…
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Forests, Tenure, and Climate: Some key recent findings with respect to REDD+ and beyond REDD+
The original article can be read from here and is published by Rights and Resources In spite of widely-recognized challenges,…
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Scientists on Indonesia’s polluting haze
While the eyes of the world have been fixed in horror on the Amazonian forest fires, the rainforests of Indonesia…
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The Papua Atlas: New tool tracks development on remote island, as-it-happens
The Papua region, which makes up the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, has often been seen as…
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‘Forestry is not fulfilling its promise to the rural poor’
According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), 250 million people living in and around tropical forests or savannahs…
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Halt tropical forest loss…our survival depends on it
Never before has forests received so much public attention. Between forest fires of unprecedented proportions in the Arctic and the…
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What should we make of the fires in the Amazon and Indonesia?
In the past week, images of fires flattening forests and smoke shrouding cities have dominated news feeds and pulled on…
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Number crunching: Making sense of REDD+ and results-based payments
BONN, Germany (CIFOR) – Making the conservation of tropical forest ecosystems financially attractive for communities and smallholder farmers is critical…
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Now the IPCC knows it too, climate change can’t be solved without rights
Yesterday, the day before Indigenous Day, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included indigenous rights in its Special…
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Can palm oil enter the circular economy?
Palm oil is the wonderstuff of fats. It makes our cookies crunchier, shampoo bubblier and lipstick smoother, all for a…
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How do you protect what’s ‘everywhere but nowhere?’
Yesterday Ethiopia began its ambitious 4 billion tree planting program. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, said the mega campaign will…
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The Congo Basin: palm oil’s next frontier
Palm oil’s legacy in Southeast Asia is visible from space. The region accounts for 87 percent of global production. Borneo,…
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