Forests

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

Because of the way international negotiations have separated adaptation from mitigation, two different communities of practices have emerged.

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.

The fourth Global Landscape Forum brought together people from 95 countries to build solutions to climate change challenges through sustainable land use.

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

Designing sustainable landscape initiatives so that they can channel investment is the subject of a new practical website, Financing Sustainable Landscapes.

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.

The 2016 Global Landscapes Forum has just closed with an announcement that Germany will host the Forum in Bonn as of next year. Here is what our co-coordinator, Natalia Cisneros had to say in her closing plenary address (video will be available soon).   “Dinesh is a young Nepali agriculturalist. He’s developed an online mentoring program […]

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

With change in the EU-Mediterranean landscape, can the forestry and environmental sector be an opportunity and a tool of employment and knowledge?

While the importance of carbon stored by forests is widely recognized, carbon stored by trees on agricultural land has been much ignored.

“Tenure-secure” indigenous lands generate billions of dollars’ worth of benefits in the form of carbon sequestration, reduced pollution, and clean water.