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International funders must stop providing cover to harmful agri-business parks, and prioritise community rights and forests while there is still time.
08/05/2019
Six MEPs familiar with carbon markets urge California to reject forestry offset standard.
Bioenergy may sound green, but it often means burning forests for energy. This is neither sustainable nor climate-friendly. Burning wood releases carbon dioxide, just like burning coal, but felling forests to feed the furnaces...
11/01/2019
Proposed changes in the way the EU accounts for land use and land use change (LULUCF) emissions are scientifically flawed and could lead to dangerous global warming.
Healthy forests are crucial to achieving the Paris Agreement’s...
19/05/2016
In Ghana, Liberia and Central African Republic, benefits are starting to flow to forest communities for the first time
04/05/2016
He said he was a forest ranger. But he leaped out of an unmarked car and showed no ID before shouting at us and waving a heavy stick menacingly in our faces. The three of us, enjoying the afternoon sun on a short stroll through the woods, were trespassing in the Poloniny National Park, he said – a criminal activity. He harangued us for 15 minutes as we retraced our steps back to the main road. In Slovakia, the heavy machinery of logging companies is allowed inside its national parks – their work was all around us. But walkers often are not.
11/11/2015
Do you know the true human and environmental cost of the charcoal you’re burning on your barbecue?
10/08/2015
Conflict in the CAR is allowing illegal deforestation to rise, but turning that around could help bring lasting peace
28/05/2015
Educate shoppers better about where agricultural commodities come from, and penalise 'bad' products
30/03/2015
Recently, we have seen the emergence of a grave new threat: Tropical forests are now being destroyed not so much for their timber, but to make way for commercial agriculture — driven by the insatiable demand of the “global north” for products such as palm oil, beef and soy. The consequences, both for the fight against climate change and for forest-dependent communities, are catastrophic.
18/03/2015
