Anti-Corruption: The Missing Ingredient in the G20’s Sustainable Development Push
The G20 Rio Summit is a critical opportunity to drive forward financial integrity reforms and secure a win for sustainable development
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Despite Biden's Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down
Less than 10% of forests in the lower 48 states remain unlogged or undisturbed by development.
Companies are Buying Up Cheap Carbon Offsets − Data Suggest it May be More About Greenwashing than Helping the Climate
Industries with relatively low emissions, such as services and financial industries, are much more intensive in their use of offsets.
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.
How Plantation Forests Are Changing Ethiopia’s Highlands🇪🇹
With smarter data, Ethiopia could cultivate not just forests, but a thriving, resilient landscape.
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.
Restoring the Mediterranean🌴
Lebanon and Morocco are betting big on restoration.
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact 🌍
In the end, science isn’t merely the domain of experts—it’s everyone’s game.
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.
Can Smarter Grazing Help Restore Biodiverse Ecosystems? 🌿
And yes, that’s Hayek the ecologist, not that Hayek the free-market philosopher.
Study: Forest Cooling Effects Depend on Region and Climate 🌍
Who knew trees could be so temperamental?