Women Are Central to Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia’s agricultural economy heavily relies on women to work outdoors. In some countries, up to 64 percent of this workforce is female.
Evidence-Based Forest News
Syndicated Content
Brazil’s Amazon Deforestation Drops to 9-Year Low 🇧🇷
However, fire-induced damage isn’t always reflected in deforestation data. Like many countries, Brazil does not classify areas lost to wildfires as deforestation.
The 5 States Where Environmental Ballot Initiatives Triumphed
Across the country, voters approved spending billions of dollars on climate resilience and conservation.
How Plantation Forests Are Changing Ethiopia’s Highlands🇪🇹
With smarter data, Ethiopia could cultivate not just forests, but a thriving, resilient landscape.
Tucson Nonprofit Hires up to 50 Teens a Year to Plant Trees
The program helps increase the city’s tree canopy.
Study Shows Clouded Leopards Can Guide Forest Protection 🐆
The new findings will now feed into a new spatial planning toolkit Macdonald and his colleagues are developing.
Do Forest Conservation Pledges Really Make a Difference? 🌲
Bustar Maitar, an Indonesian forest activist of 20 years, reinforced the positive side effects of the declaration.
UN Biodiversity Talks Stalled, but Protecting Nature Cannot Wait
Halting biodiversity loss will require billions more in finance to protect and restore nature by 2030.
Earthshot Prize Honors 5 Innovators for Green Solutions 🌍
“We want to make this the decade when we transform the world for good, one solution at a time from the ground up”
COP29 Funds & Finance Reform: Key for Africa’s Climate Fight 💸
Development finance is undergoing meaningful and potentially impactful reform for the first time.
G20 Ministers Seek to Prioritize Environmental Disaster Prevention
A proposal on risk reduction will be submitted to the G20 summit
Companies Find Solutions to Power EVs in Energy-Challenged Africa
Countries in Africa have been slow adopters of battery-powered vehicles because finding reliable sources of electricity is a challenge in many places.