IPCC 1.5°C Special Report: More questions than answers when it comes to land use and forests
The 21st Conference of the Parties (or COP21) in Paris, France last year invited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
6 min read
REDD+ politics – or why it is so difficult to tackle large-scale drivers of deforestation
What challenges do REDD+ countries have in common, where do they differ? And how do a country’s politics play out…
7 min read
Quantifying the drivers of South American deforestation
Can you imagine examining samples from every patch of forest cleared over a period of 15 years across an entire…
6 min read
Glaring gap: Countries are overlooking how the private sector can help meet national climate goals
The Paris Agreement was built on countries’ Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) – national roadmaps towards limiting global warming to…
5 min read
Paris Agreement signed. Now what?
A record number of more than 170 nations attended the signing ceremony of the Paris Climate Agreement (PA) at the…
11 min read
Mapping the world’s biomass to better tackle deforestation
One of the early successes in efforts to combat global warming has been a renewed push to tackle deforestation in…
5 min read
How deforestation is tangled up in the law
When it comes to deforestation – either stopping it or encouraging it – a country’s laws and policies can make…
7 min read
Finding water amid the trees
It is not often that a study completely upends a prevailing view, and, in doing so, offers hope of improving…
5 min read
Why ‘zero deforestation’ is only one piece of the sustainability puzzle
In the midst of efforts to achieve ‘zero deforestation’, it’s important to remember that halting deforestation is not just about…
11 min read
Coastal blue carbon from planted mangroves holds promise
Mangrove forests might account for only 0.5 percent of coastal areas worldwide, but they punch well above their weight when…
3 min read
Rising tides: Will mangroves keep up as sea levels climb?
Although mangroves will be able to withstand moderate sea level rise, the highest projections for the end of this century…
4 min read
Hunters, gatherers and all those gender roles
Inside the community center in the village of Roya, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, scientist Dawn Rodríguez-Ward hangs pie charts…
4 min read
FORESTS NEWS
BETA