adaptation
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Revealed: How much carbon Earth’s forests stash—and what’s happening to it
The climate crisis is getting worse, but we haven’t yet managed to ditch the fossil fuels that exacerbate it. So,…
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Explainer: How trees help protect us from flooding
Right now, much of East Africa – including Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda – and southern Brazil are awash with water.…
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Q&A: What can trees tell us about environmental history and climate adaptation?
As people around the world rush to plant trees to restore degraded land, meet climate mitigation commitments, and build biodiversity,…
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TreesAdapt platform launched at GLF
A new platform has been launched to help develop, implement and manage adaptation solutions in a drastically changing climate through…
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Finding the sweet spot: How to scale up and finance ecosystem-based adaptation
Protecting and restoring landscapes and building sustainable agroforestry systems is a powerful way to boost resilience to climate change and…
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Steady as Murdiyarso goes
On 28 June 2004, Indonesia’s environment minister Nabiel Makarim opened the Indonesian parliament (DPR) public hearing by holding up a…
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A brief explainer of how REDD+ finance works
In one of largest ongoing efforts to tackle climate change, projects happening the world under the framework of REDD+ –…
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COP23 Special: Sharing the benefits of REDD+ in Burkina Faso
As Burkina Faso’s dry forest landscapes come under the dual pressures of climate change and land-use change, REDD+ has been…
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COP23 Special: In Burkina Faso, finding new paths through a changing landscape
When the rains come in Burkina Faso, a familiar change sets in. Well-worn paths through the dry savannah plains and…
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Robert Nasi: Changing the way forests and forestry are perceived
From 1 November 2017, Dr. Robert Nasi is taking on the role of Director General of the Center for International…
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Time to get it together on mitigation and adaptation
To combat climate change, one can avoid it via mitigation, or cope with it via adaptation. Even though these objectives…
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Reflections on COP22 and gender
Thanks to lobbying efforts by gender equality advocacy groups, the recent climate talks in Marrakesh yielded a significant decision that…
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CIFOR’s Director General Peter Holmgren: ‘Climate solutions will have to happen in the landscape’
Peter Holmgren is the Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). He spoke on the sidelines of…
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UNEP’s Erik Solheim: ‘Climate no longer a cost, but an opportunity’
More than 5,500 people from 95 countries connected in person and online at the 2016 Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in…
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GLF Special: Forgotten Forests of the Sahel
The Paris Agreement has shone a spotlight on the vital role that forests play in climate change – and for…
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