Analysis – Opinion
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COP22 Special: The Medina, souks and the ‘COP of Action’
At the COP21 in Paris last year, 195 countries reached an historic agreement – the first ever universal, legally binding…
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Quality over quantity: Changing diets and consumption
It might come as a surprise to most people that enough food is produced globally to feed approximately 10 billion…
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Are smallholders really to blame?
Multiple international and bilateral agreements compel – though do not legally bind – Peru to halt deforestation in the near…
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Tax amnesty, the green economy and peat restoration
The Indonesian government seeks to collect USD 13 billion from its tax amnesty program this year, says the country’s Finance…
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The rush to ratification of the Paris Agreement
At the time of writing, according to the UNFCCC website tracking ratifications of the Paris Climate Agreement (PA), we currently…
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‘Implementation, implementation, implementation – just not necessarily in that order’
“Implementation, implementation, implementation – just not necessarily in that order.” This was the response of Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of OECD,…
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Indonesia: Biofuels from palm oil and power from tree plantations?
These questions were raised at a recent national stakeholders workshop co-organized by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and…
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Investing in sustainable planted forests: Tools are available, but there’s room for improvement
Industrial-scale planted forests are broadening the scope of their products from a traditional focus on timber toward bioenergy, and even…
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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…
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Brexit rattles RI-European timber trade prospects
Shortly after the UK people voted on June 24 to leave the European Union, the country witnessed a change of…
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Community forestry in Central Africa: Has it been a success?
Democratization across much of Africa in the early 1990s not only affected political institutions, but also had repercussions for natural…
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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…
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What do locals think of large-scale tree plantations?
Large-scale tree plantations are expanding worldwide, and so are the controversies they trigger. Tree plantations in the tropics are frequently…
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Balancing Transparency and Non-State Actors in the Climate Negotiations
In the lead-up to the first formal UNFCCC Subsidiary Body meeting since the Paris Agreement (PA), there was palpable anticipation…
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A new generation of forest managers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
In the tropical woodlands of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on the banks of the deepest river in the…
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