International agreements

International agreements

Little was known about the state of Ghana’s forest reserves. New maps are helping to fill these gaps and open up new opportunities for restoration.

Significant progress has been made in recent years on REDD+ under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Climate Action and Sustainable Land Use in Forestry and Agriculture. Forests and agriculture play a key role for achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Mining activities, whether artisanal or industrial in scale, result in two types of environmental and social impacts: primary impacts and secondary impacts.

Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals on hunger and poverty will require a 50 percent increase in food production in the next 15 years. In fact, a global food revolution is urgently needed, argues a recent paper by a number of leading scientists working with the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). Without […]

Climate change is one of the most powerful forces affecting agricultural landscapes today and will only be more so in the future.

Check out in-depth coverage of the Global Landscapes Forum 2016—The Investment Case, including shifting trends in private sector funding of landscapes.