investment
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Invest with confidence: Are planted forests in Latin America a good deal?
Subsidized by Mother Nature, society has consumed, for various reasons and over centuries, vast amounts of timber extracted from primary…
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Watch: Looking for common language at Landscapes Forum
Investment bankers and fund managers met with agriculture and forestry researchers, representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies at the…
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Investors want to fund sustainable landscapes – now the work begins
LONDON, England—There was standing room only at several of the sessions of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case event…
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Trying to follow the money: Tracing investments to actual places in SE Asia
In recent years, agricultural commodities have become increasingly popular with investors looking to diversify by expanding into emerging markets. Palm…
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Investment in sustainable landscapes: Time to take the risk
BOGOR, Indonesia: If a tree falls in the rain forest, do investors care if it really fell ….or was it…
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Rights, returns and restoration: 3Rs for landscapes
As we look to the Sustainable Development Goals and the new climate deal as mechanisms to secure our future on…
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Piecing together the green investment puzzle
LONDON, England: The pieces of the sustainable landscape investment puzzle have very jagged edges, and moves are under way to…
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Finance for sustainable landscapes: Momentum is building
The landscape approach is largely about working across institutional boundaries – boundaries that evolved for good reason but now sometimes…
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Growing Chinese presence a wake-up call for African natural resource managers
BOGOR, Indonesia — The recent surge in Chinese investment in Africa has exposed the need for local policymakers to boost…
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REDD+ can help ‘green’ Indonesia’s resource-dependent economy: expert
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on ForestsAsia.org. Indonesia must reduce its economic dependence on natural resources by increasing investment…
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At summit, experts urge expanding equity as pillar of green economy
For Southeast Asia to have a “green economy,” it must be founded on equity, experts said at a recent conference…
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African farmland investments face governance challenges
(A version of this article appeared previously in The Broker.) The rush for African farmland has created new opportunities for…
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Forests, land use and the Green Climate Fund: Open for business?
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of an article posted at ForestsClimateChange.org. It can be read in its entirety here.…
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One goal, but many paths to financing a ‘green economy,’ panelists say
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The necessary public and private investment to finance a “green economy” in Southeast Asia has so far…
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