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Opinion / #forests

'Stop the chop': Demonstrators rally against deforestation in Sarawak, Malaysia

Carbon & Climate

How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop

For years, Indigenous communities in Sarawak fought against logging on their lands. Today, they can claim a rare victory as timber giant Samling has withdrawn from logging native forests in the Baram area.
Rainforest in Pesisir Barat regency, Lampung province, Indonesia

Carbon & Climate

Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth

Rising temperatures are weakening the ability of tropical forests to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate climate change, which has significant implications for the global water cycle.
Samling deforestation

Food & Agriculture

Plantations are not forests

Sarawak's so-called green revolution is little more than a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Companies and the state government are operating in ways that not only devastate the environment but also marginalise remote Indigenous communities.
AKWOA Semangat Tinak

Carbon & Climate

To ensure a just carbon market, Malaysia must strengthen Indigenous rights

Enshrining free, prior and informed consent in Malaysian law can improve the credibility of carbon projects. In the meantime, carbon conversations must include Indigenous voices and wisdom.

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1 July 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Habitat destruction hurting more than climate change

8 May 2024

Australia Bushfire 2019

Carbon & Climate

Many people are feeling ecological grief. How can we help those whose work puts them at risk?

12 April 2024

logging in borneo

Carbon & Climate

'Ghost roads' are cracking open pristine rainforests in Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

5 April 2024

Kuamut forest reserve sabah

Carbon & Climate

Malaysia's carbon credit conundrum: State governments hold key to unlocking its potential

29 January 2024

Turtle_Biodiversity

Policy & Finance

Rich countries must compensate the Global South for biodiversity loss

21 December 2023

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Policy & Finance

How technology can help save Indigenous forests – and our planet

30 October 2023

Peru rainforest

Carbon & Climate

The carbon-offset market’s broken promises

26 October 2023

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Carbon & Climate

We need to stop gambling with our planet - and our well-being - now

24 October 2023

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Carbon & Climate

Climate solutions are already in our nature

7 June 2023

Demonstrators in Hanover, Germany protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Policy & Finance

The geopolitics of nature

15 May 2023

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Cities

Jakarta acts to stop being the next Atlantis

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Cities

If your city is sinking, why not make it float?

10 April 2023

Brazilian rainforest

Carbon & Climate

In defence of nature-based carbon markets

1 March 2023

A shoal of Pacific sardines in the open ocean.

Policy & Finance

High time for a high-seas treaty

13 December 2022

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Policy & Finance

Eco-economic development amid COP15

12 December 2022

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Policy & Finance

What US leadership can do for nature

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