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Food & Agriculture

Attendees at ethical palm oil roundtable flag slow rollout of EUDR’s digital compliance system

Growers and traceability platforms at the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil say the compliance portal for EU’s deforestation law – meant to kick in next month – only opened for registration last week and is not fully live yet.
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Policy & Finance

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

Climate policies like REDD+ often fail to prioritise Indigenous peoples, undermining their effectiveness in tackling the root causes of deforestation and climate change, according to a recent study.
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Policy & Finance

‘Ambition’ problem: Why most Southeast Asian nations missed the COP16 biodiversity pledges deadline

Most Southeast Asian nations missed the COP16 deadline to submit updated biodiversity pledges. Competing priorities and financing gaps have hampered nature commitments, say experts.
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Policy & Finance

Meagre pay, little support: Budget cuts for Philippines’ forest guards put conservation commitment under question

There has been a severe shortfall in funding for natural park management, and forest rangers are bearing the brunt of these budget cuts. This is despite the risks they face, and amid an expansion of top-down efforts to establish more government-protected areas which demand enforcement and patrol resources.

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24 September 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Sarawak should be classified as high-risk for deforestation under EUDR, says Human Rights Watch

19 August 2024

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Policy & Finance

Nepal’s once-thriving community forests face existential crisis

8 August 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Malaysia's private sector launches carbon market alliance ahead of possible introduction of carbon tax in Budget 2025

26 July 2024

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Transport

To host COP30, Brazil will carve up an Amazonian reserve

19 July 2024

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Energy

Hydropower dams continue to undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

26 June 2024

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Transport

AI or humans? Rainforest seeks partner to police ghost roads

28 May 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Over 3 million hectares of Malaysian forests at risk of deforestation, national forest cover commitment at risk

22 May 2024

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Transport

In drought-hit Amazon, road paving fears grow as rivers run dry

19 May 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Sarawak forest carbon projects face pushback over Indigenous land rights

23 April 2024

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Carbon & Climate

From gold to green: Can the Paris 2024 Olympics slash emissions?

22 April 2024

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Policy & Finance

How microloans exacerbate deforestation in Cambodia

14 March 2024

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Policy & Finance

Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC

30 November 2023

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Cities

What do COP28, money laundering and the Amazon have in common?

20 November 2023

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Carbon & Climate

Indonesia’s election matters for relations with China and the environment

25 October 2023

A wood chip mountain at APP's Ogan Komering Ilir (OKI) mill in South Sumatra.

Food & Agriculture

‘Forest promises pulped’: Greenpeace publishes critique of APP's no-deforestation pledge, 10 years on

26 September 2023

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Cities

Indonesia's rainforest seen at risk from 2024 election handouts

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