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Policy & Finance
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals
Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.
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 Today, they can claim a rare victory as timber giant Samling has withdrawn from logging native forests in the Baram area.
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.
Carbon & Climate
Climate change poses dire health and human rights risks
Human health relies on healthy ecosystems, but these are under threat. Securing the right to live in a healthy environment is crucial for all.
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Carbon & Climate
Fighting climate change with bamboo
30 June 2020
14 April 2020
21 January 2020
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
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