Conservation

Conservation

Not widely known, peat is the world’s largest terrestrial organic soil carbon stock. Peatlands are found on every continent and in most countries.

March 21 is the UN International Day of Forests, and we have a round-up of some of our best content on this year's theme: Forests and Energy.

Nepal is a leader in returning forest tenure rights to locals, but regulations undermine communities’ attempts to establish businesses from forest products.

At the GLF we have been empowering women to be be bold and take leadership in creating the beautiful, equitable and sustainable landscapes of tomorrow.

Convergence offers grant funding for practitioners to design innovative blended finance instruments that address a key development need.

IUCN’s GFCCP has launched a call for abstracts on “Achieving deforestation-free commitments through forest landscape restoration.”

The restoration of degraded landscapes is an opportunity to increase the global resource base for more sustainable future production of food and commodities

Mangroves   are among the world’s most productive ecosystems and, have an impressive capacity to sequester and store carbon at high rates.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by CIFOR and UNEP to foster joint action on promoting integrated landscape management and restoration.

Study shows that when policymakers take shortcuts, the likelihood for under-performance of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) schemes is greater.

The world’s nations met at Marrakesh in 2016 to map out implementation of the Paris Agreement. The implications for Southeast Asia’s forests were discussed.

Global Canopy Programme’s Forest 500 initiative concludes that more action is needed to help companies achieve deforestation-free supply chains.

Application-focused book with the findings of international research on sustainable land management presented at the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Peter Holmgren of CIFOR says: if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and meet our climate targets, we have to find a new way of doing things

Greenland acted as one of Earth’s biggest air conditioners. Since rising temperatures turned Greenland grey, dark snow attracts heat rather than repels it.