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Carbon & Climate

Degradation changes forest’s carbon storage, tree profile: study

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found.
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Food & Agriculture

Philippine Indigenous communities lead forest restoration to mitigate urban flooding

Indigenous communities in the Philippines’ Mount Kalatungan protected area have since 2015 carried out a tree-planting campaign to restore native vegetation lost to decades of commercial logging and agriculture.
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Carbon & Climate

TNFD extends roots in Asia with Bank of China joining taskforce

The Beijing-headquartered state-owned multinational bank is the first Chinese financial institution representative on the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, which now has 40 members.
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Food & Agriculture

Tree islands ‘restore biodiversity’ in oil palm farms

Oil palm plantations are known for environmental harms such as biodiversity loss. A study suggests establishing tree islands within large oil palm farms could promote the recovery of native trees and biodiversity.

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31 December 2024

Nepal community forestry - women

Policy & Finance

Nepal’s forest-protecting communities could miss out on World Bank carbon funds

27 December 2024

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Water

Restoration of India’s Yamuna River blighted by concrete

19 November 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Focus on rainforest conservation can neglect other key ecosystems

7 November 2024

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Policy & Finance

Rare win for Indigenous peoples at COP16 but biodiversity financing remains elusive

4 November 2024

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Policy & Finance

US election puts millions on the line for Amazon rainforest fund

29 October 2024

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Food & Agriculture

New RSPO rules for sustainable palm oil certification raises concern over deforestation and human rights

28 October 2024

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Policy & Finance

REDD+ doesn’t work without Indigenous peoples, but fails to engage them: report

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Carbon & Climate

Climate change almost wipes out decline in global area burned by wildfires

7 October 2024

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Food & Agriculture

Can regenerative agriculture make palm oil sustainable?

30 September 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Thailand turns to mangrove carbon credits despite scepticism

25 September 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Ozone pollution shrinks tropical forest growth

12 September 2024

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Cities

Thailand capital turns to urban forests to beat worsening floods

11 September 2024

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Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia's protected areas could do better with more resources

22 August 2024

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Energy

Coal mining has led to 35% loss of native land cover in India’s central coal belt

19 August 2024

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Policy & Finance

Nepal’s once-thriving community forests face existential crisis

5 August 2024

Executives gather for the formal application of Astra Agro Lestari for membership of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in July.

Food & Agriculture

Activists pressure RSPO to reject Astra Agro Lestari membership application

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