climate change
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Agroforestry and beekeeping a boon for Botswanan farmers
Agroforestry has been widely heralded as critical to making food systems more sustainable and adaptable in the context of climate…
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Degraded Amazonian peatlands are overlooked carbon source
Peru’s Amazonian palm swamp peatlands store large amounts of carbon, but the unsustainable harvesting of palm fruit causes degradation that…
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What are we missing in the links between forests and health?
The connections between forests and human health are high on many minds these days. Most of us have heard about…
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Humanity now lives beyond most environmental limits on Earth, study finds
The Earth system is under unprecedented pressure from human activity and is in danger of losing the relatively stable conditions…
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Visiting Lecture: Taking local context into account in REDD+ policy implementation
In the last two decades, annual tropical forest cover loss around the world has increased despite numerous efforts to counter…
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Are REDD+ safeguards supporting community land, resource, and carbon rights?
There is growing evidence of the critical role that Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and local communities (LCs) play in the effective…
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Mapping a more sustainable palm oil future in Indonesia
The versatile and edible palm oil can be found in everything from pizza dough to instant noodles and bread. And…
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From ‘do no harm’ to ‘do better’: Early lessons from implementing REDD+ safeguards in Indonesia
Indonesia, a REDD+ ‘early mover’, is implementing two results-based payments programmes in the provinces of East Kalimantan and Jambi. The…
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Palm oil stakeholders say more details needed on planned EUDR regulation, implications
More detailed information must be provided on the application and implications of proposed new European Union (EU) legislation on palm…
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New accounting methods could rebuild confidence in forest carbon markets
Forest carbon markets have a vital role to play in helping fund greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions in order to…
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Taking root in Kenya: Nature-based climate solutions project kicks off
The lush Taita Hills jut steeply above the arid rangelands of southern Kenya. Much of their original tree cover has…
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Addressing expanding concerns over forest carbon credits key to mitigation success
Amid growing investor interest in forest-based climate mitigation, including forest carbon credits and benefits through reducing greenhouse gas emissions from…
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Community support crucial to blue carbon success
The quality of a blue carbon ecosystem project, essential for investor appeal, must be judged by strong social outcomes, benefit…
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Sonya Dewi begins tenure as new Asia Director
Scientists and detectives would appear to have little in common. Until you meet Sonya Dewi. Just like Hercule Poirot and…
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Fielding peatland data in remote Central Congo
Field data is essential to gain an understanding of the genesis, development, contemporary function, and extent of the central Congo…
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