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From Belém to the world: Could Brazil’s ‘mutirão’ reshape climate action at COP30?
If there’s one word Brazil wants the world to learn before the UNFCCC COP30 in Belém do Pará, taking place…
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‘There are plenty of wheels’: Metrics to measure agroecology’s performance
On 17 December 2024, the Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology (AE-TPP) held its third online dialogue on Measuring What Matters.…
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Why tropical dry forests are collapsing: The forces driving a silent crisis
*This article is the second and final part of a two-part series on tropical dry forests. Part 1 explored what…
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Tropical dry forests: The vanishing biome sustaining life
*This is the first in a two-part series exploring the importance of tropical dry forests. In global conservation debates, tropical dry…
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Heroes and hypocrites: Peer punishment and fair forest use
Tropical forests hold many valuable resources—timber, fuelwood, bushmeat—that are considered “common-pool” goods. They are finite, shared by all, owned by…
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Not all carbon credits are created equal
Carbon credits—intended to represent greenhouse gas reductions or removals—have become a prominent tool in the global response to the climate…
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The serious game of agroecological transition
Playing games might seem a strange, perhaps even trivial, activity for a high-level international dialogue. But on 17 July 2025,…
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Financing conservation has a new face
“We‘ve said many times we‘re going to do better, but we haven’t. Biodiversity is decreasing at an alarming rate,” said…
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“What is a tree?”
On a sunlit spring morning at Cambridge Cottage in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, botanical scientists, AI engineers, restoration…
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New guide supports transparent land-use monitoring for climate action
The verdict is clear: to meet international climate change mitigation targets and ensure the continued functioning of Earth’s ecosystems, we…
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Regulating global trade without harming agroforestry farms?
Globally traded commodities that can be grown in forest-like agricultural systems —known as agroforestry— have long been part of the…
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Connected farmers can shift more quickly to agroecology—with the right tools, teams and terms
“When farmers have the right tools in the right way, they can create a space to improve their knowledge, change…
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Why repurposing harmful subsidies is our main lever for biodiversity funding
The world is facing a biodiversity crisis of unprecedented proportions. Over a million plant and animal species are teetering on…
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Our forests are not spreadsheets: Why nature demands more than market logic
As a tropical forest ecologist, I have spent decades studying ecosystems teeming with a complexity that still humbles me. I…
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How bees are buzzing new life into forests and farming
“If we cut down all the trees, we will die.” Each year, as the dry season settles over the remote…
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