Spotlight Can China’s ‘Ecological Redlines’ Help Other Countries? China’s experience of drawing up protected areas and satellite cooperation with Brazil can boost progress towards 2030 targets, scientist Gao Jixi tells Dialogue Earth
Spotlight Nature-Based Solutions: Affordable and Effective 🌱 At COP29, nature-based solutions take center stage. Affordable, effective, and key to climate action, they demand global attention now.
News Restoring Guinea-Bissau's Mangroves: A Holistic Approach 🌿 He says that many conventional restoration projects fail because they are driven by incentive-based targets, planting a certain amount of land or number of seedlings.
Spotlight Empowering Women to Restore Africa’s Degraded Lands 🌍♀️ “I also look forward to engaging and learning from other Indigenous women globally on their restoration approaches and solutions to shared challenges.”
News Citizen Scientists Aiding Species Conservation Efforts 🧪 “The real challenge isn’t gathering the data—it’s how we use it to inform extinction risk assessments”
Spotlight Data Shows Indonesian Social Forestry Excludes Women 📊🌳 Indonesia's social forestry policies aim for inclusivity, yet women remain underrepresented in management, deepening inequalities.
News Prosecutors Request Halt to Amazon Carbon Projects 🛑 According to the state government, the initiatives will be executed only “if they strictly follow what is decided by the community and the parameters set out in the public notice.”
Spotlight Data Looks at ESG Goals for Companies 0️⃣ Analysis of SBTi’s progress data, which includes all companies that had set a target by 2022 for which SBTi has emissions data, reveals that companies are cutting their emissions by a median annual rate of 5.4%.
Spotlight Longleaf Pine Forests Increasing Coastal Georgia Reforestation of the longleaf pine in Georgia protects the habitat of species such as gopher tortoises and red-cockaded woodpeckers.
Spotlight Small Farmers Revive Brazil’s Forests on Palm Oil Land 🌱 The locally led restoration projects are up to 20 times more likely to create lasting impacts than those by NGO's or Government.
News Planting Forests to Fight Droughts & Floods in Brazil 🇧🇷 Borges and Curcio say Brazil lacks the federal political will to take the country’s numerous restoration projects from a fragmented, small-scale approach to broad public policy that could be applied and enforced countrywide.
News G20: Minister Highlights the Role of Agroecology 🌾 The minister reinforced that the agroforestry program gives priority to the recovery of the vegetation of the settlements created in the Amazon during the military dictatorship.