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Carbon & Climate
Sumatra’s flood crisis: How deforestation turned a cyclonic storm into a likely recurring tragedy
Forest loss and soil degredation resulted in Sumatra's natural ecosystem losing the ability to act as a natural sponge during Cyclone Senyar.
As the world gathers in the Amazon, political headwinds and fading ambition test the limits of global climate cooperation.
Policy & Finance
Environmental crime worth billions is climate fight’s blind spot
Despite generating billions of dollars in illegal revenue a year, environmental crime in the Amazon still isn't a priority at UN climate summits.
Concerns exist over the Prabowo administration's commitment to Nusantara's development, given its other priorities, unmet investment targets, and uncertainties surrounding coordination, transparency, and long-term vision.
All #deforestation Opinion
25 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Nature risk is financial risk
2 July 2025
Food & Agriculture
Fighting meat with emotions, not facts
20 June 2025
29 May 2025
6 May 2025
Policy & Finance
Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance
25 March 2025
Policy & Finance
Central banks must stem the nature crisis
24 March 2025
Transport
Can the shipping industry decarbonise?
20 February 2025
Carbon & Climate
How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop
18 February 2025
Food & Agriculture
Reconciling Indonesia’s food sufficiency ambitions with climate commitments
21 November 2024
Food & Agriculture
Plantations are not forests
18 November 2024
Carbon & Climate
How climate change feeds our wars
15 October 2024
Policy & Finance
The delay to EU deforestation rules must help people transition
10 September 2024
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Food & Agriculture
Small farms the key to Malaysia's palm oil sustainability
5 August 2024
Carbon & Climate
How unplanned development, unusual rain ended in disaster
16 July 2024
Food & Agriculture
China's emerging role in driving sustainable palm oil: a global imperative
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