Opinion / #timber
Carbon & Climate
‘Ghost roads’ are cracking open pristine rainforests in Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
A new study finds that illegal roads have enabled illicit logging, mining, poaching and land grabbing in some of the world's most biodiversity-rich ecosystems.
Carbon & Climate
Malaysia’s carbon credit conundrum: State governments hold key to unlocking its potential
Malaysia is expected to launch its first local nature-based carbon credit but it faces a jurisdictional quagmire, wherein forest management is predominantly governed by state authorities.
Wealthy nations’ overconsumption is destroying nature, but is often not accounted for by ‘loss and damage’.
Policy & Finance
How technology can help save Indigenous forests – and our planet
What role can technology play in Indigenous land conservation around the world?
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30 June 2020
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Food & Agriculture
A boycott is not the answer to palm oil’s environmental problems
21 October 2019
Policy & Finance
Climate leadership from developing countries
15 October 2019
Policy & Finance
Building ‘blocks’ to fight the haze
12 September 2018
Carbon & Climate
6 ways to remove carbon pollution from the sky
27 August 2018
Carbon & Climate
Logging is claiming the last of Indonesia's forests
17 August 2018
Food & Agriculture
A new normal in the battle against fire and haze
15 August 2018
Food & Agriculture
Indonesia's deforestation dropped 60% in 2017, but there's more to do
3 May 2017
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Food & Agriculture
Rebuilding the world's forests
18 May 2016
Policy & Finance
New EU-Indonesia timber agreement will improve forest protection
6 April 2016
Carbon & Climate
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