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.
An online, interactive map, the Global Wetlands Map, was launched last month that invites researchers and other experts to help map the world’s wetlands.
In 2013, Matthew Hansen and his colleagues used satellite data to produce the first global, high-resolution maps of where trees are growing and disappearing
The Paris Agreement has now been ratified by the largest emitters, China and the United States, as well as one of the largest forest emitters, Brazil.
Leaders at 2016 World Water Week posed the crucial question of ‘how’? “Implementation, implementation, implementation – Just not necessarily in that order.” This was the response of Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of OECD, when asked at Stockholm’s World Water Week what three priority strategies the water sector should be focusing on this year. Stockholm — known […]
The European Tropical Forest Research Network is interested in your work on zero deforestation commitments. What has worked, and what hasn’t?
Short course offered on “Competing claims on natural resources - reconciling agricultural development and biodiversity conservation at the landscape level”.
Partnerships for Forests, a technical assistance and grant-making program funded by the UK government, has opened its first call for concepts.
Today, we have more data about forests than ever before, but we still can’t seem to agree on where, when and why forests are changing around the world.
Land used for palm oil production could be nearly doubled without expanding into protected or high-biodiversity forests, according to a new study.
While tropical forests continued to decline, a remarkable change is happening: tree cover on agricultural land has increased across the globe.