Forests, Finance, and Lessons for the Global Community 🌲 🌏
Stability, simplicity, and a long-term vision are essential to making offset programs genuinely effective and lasting.
Spotlight
Reforesting Khoinania: Small Project, Big Transparency 🌳
This “show, don’t just tell” approach provides a fresh level of openness rarely seen in restoration projects.
Community-Powered Comeback in Madagascar’s Mangabe Protected Area 🌍
Using assisted natural regeneration, local communities are leading the charge to let native vegetation make its own comeback.
Surya-Kunj: From Wasteland to Wildlife Wonderland 🌱
Its model is simple: give nature a hand and watch as ecosystems spring back to life.
Individual Action on Climate was Tarred as Greenwashing or Virtue Signalling. But it Still Has a Place
Yet it turns out the reality of individual action on climate is much more complicated – because we are complicated.
Nature Has It Figured Out: Tropical Forests Regrowth 🌱
By focusing on areas primed for natural regeneration and only planting trees where necessary, we can achieve real climate and biodiversity gains.
Study Restores Hope in Forest Adaptive Management 🌳🌱️
Forest resilience can’t stay a buzzword—it needs to become tangible reality.
Study: Rainfall Fails to Boost China’s Carbon Storage Efforts 🌧️
The results underscore that simply adding water may not be the climate solution we expected for semi-arid regions.
Community-Led Climate Solutions: Insights From the Great Green Wall Project
A bottom-up, participatory approach involving local communities and stakeholders is key to safeguarding climate initiatives against corruption
Marsh-Fronted Seawalls: An Economic Win-Win for Coastal Protection 🌿💧
A new study by Lee and Nepf (2024) highlights how marsh-fronted seawalls can be a financially viable solution.
Miombo Woodlands: The Surprising Carbon Giants 🌳💡
Using cutting-edge lidar technology, scientists have discovered that these forests hold far more carbon than we previously thought!
Mapping Civil Society Organisations on Open Data in Francophone Africa: A Regional Meeting with Open Knowledge Foundation
The meeting aimed to understand and assess the current landscape of civil society organisations engaged in open data across Francophone African countries.