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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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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Informal trade in charcoal and firewood in Africa creates need for sustainable approach
As demand for charcoal and other wood energy soars in Central Africa, with wide-ranging consequences for biodiversity and local communities,…
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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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Experts map matrix of certification standards at World Forestry Congress
Establishing certification standards for forestry and agricultural commodities is no straightforward matter, particularly for smallholder farmers.Voluntary standards of the type…
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Oil palm agroforestry in Brazil dispels myths about monocultures
For many people, the mere mention of palm oil conjures up dystopian images of trees planted in military drill formation…
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Waiting for the end of deforestation: Companies must ante up
Toward the end of last year, it seemed as if it should be “all systems go” regarding global ambitions to…
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Shoring up Burkina Faso’s shea trade requires intensive landscape restoration efforts
For generations, women in West Africa have produced shea butter for home consumption and to sell for use in cosmetics…
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Biomass energy brings clean electricity to remote Indonesian islands
Indonesia is an energy-rich country, but electricity poor, a situation that Jaya Wahono is determined to change. As director of…
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Boost funding and strategically align incentives with climate goals to save forests
Forests are under massive threat worldwide, planet warming emissions are trending upward and, despite their essential role and potential, governments…
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