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Scientific coalition offers specifics to the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
The group of 50, who are part of bioDISCOVERY, which is a global research network of Future Earth, and the…
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Our food systems are failing. Can trees and forests dish up better diets for everyone?
Despite all of the technological and informational advancements of recent decades, we’ve so far failed to feed our global population…
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Biodiversity science–policy panel calls for broadening value-of-nature concepts in sustainable development
The Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) approved the Summary for Policy Makers of the Assessment Report…
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One commodity, seven countries – and multiple impacts for legal timber
In the wake of the UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in late 2021, a series of legal instruments aimed…
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Huge potential for sustainability with natural rubber, experts say
Natural rubber is one of the four main global commodities produced from trees. Predominantly harvested by smallholders, the industry sustains…
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Addressing five global challenges that will shape our future
As the international community lifts its head above the chaos wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic and sets its sights on…
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Protected: Financing conservation has a new face
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Finale features lessons learned in social forestry–climate change partnership
In Jakarta last week, delegates celebrated more than a decade of partnership at a knowledge-sharing event where lessons learned and…
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Q+A: Natural climate solutions could reverse emissions in 30 tropical countries, scientists say
Although natural climate solutions offer one of the best climate mitigation opportunities, they are as yet under-represented in national climate…
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Management of intact forestlands by Indigenous Peoples key to protecting climate
Indigenous Peoples have had a track record of managing landscapes sustainably for millennia. However, incursions into their territories, often by…
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Indonesia’s leadership in peatland management in focus at COP 25
At U.N. climate talks in Madrid, Indonesia, which has committed to restore 2.4 million hectares of drained peatlands, presented various…
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How climate finance and technology could better integrate women
Amid frustrated negotiations around Article 6 guidance on emissions counting and carbon markets, U.N. COP25 climate talks delivered a decision…
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Peatland potential untapped in Nationally Determined Contributions, COP 25 delegates say
Fewer than a dozen countries have so far included peatlands in their Nationally Determined Contributions, although the carbon-rich ecosystems exist…
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Is simplicity always best?
“We humans want to see everything as simple, little and ‘square’,” says Chris Martius, principal climate scientist of the Center…
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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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