Global
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COP22 Special: The role of private actors on the world’s climate stage
The landmark Paris climate change agreement was adopted by 195 nations – all pledging to keep global warming well below…
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COP22 Special: Why should we care about peat?
Peat is partially decayed, dead vegetation that has accumulated over thousands of years. Though peatlands are generally saturated with water…
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COP22 Special: REDD+ monitoring is a technical and political balancing act
Monitoring deforestation so countries can track their greenhouse gas emission targets might seem like a technical matter of satellite images…
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COP22 Special: What does the landscape approach look like in practice?
What are integrated landscape approaches and how do we put them in practice on the ground? These questions – important…
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COP22 Special: Why should we care about coastal blue carbon?
Delegates are gathering for the 22nd session of a climate conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, from 7-18 November. It is interesting…
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COP22 Special: The Medina, souks and the ‘COP of Action’
At the COP21 in Paris last year, 195 countries reached an historic agreement – the first ever universal, legally binding…
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Quality over quantity: Changing diets and consumption
It might come as a surprise to most people that enough food is produced globally to feed approximately 10 billion…
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Nutrition and landscapes
CIFOR: What kind of research are you carrying out on nutrition and landscapes? Amy Ickowitz: Our research started by looking…
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Rural women across the globe: Linking livelihoods and landscapes
We need to care about rural women. For one, they comprise a quarter of the world’s population. In developing countries,…
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Forest, Trees & Agroforestry research into the next phase
In what some refer to as a ‘post-truth’ society, it is unfortunate that the role of scientific results is frequently…
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Promoting progress through prospection
What are the biggest obstacles that local communities face when ensuring rights to their forest resources? Community leaders say it’s…
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A map of the world’s wetlands
Wetlands are important ecosystems for climate change mitigation and adaptation because they can store huge amounts of carbon, while providing…
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Delving into drivers of deforestation
Debates over forest loss in Borneo generally focus on the extent to which industrial plantations are to blame: those on…
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The rush to ratification of the Paris Agreement
At the time of writing, according to the UNFCCC website tracking ratifications of the Paris Climate Agreement (PA), we currently…
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