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Carbon offsets: A key tool for climate action, or a license to emit?

Carbon offsets: A key tool for climate action, or a license to emit?

Carbon offsets: A key tool for climate action, or a license to emit? by Ian Morse on 4 November 2022 The carbon offset market has existed for 25 years, and experts say there are...

Pledges to plant trees are great news for the fight against climate change–but we don't have enough seeds

Pledges to plant trees are great news for the fight against climate change–but we don't have enough seeds

It is hard to look at a redwood and imagine that it was once a tiny seed–but it is a simple truth of nature that even our forest giants have to start small. This forest...

Agroforestry needs visibility in national budgets to track climate progress

Agroforestry needs visibility in national budgets to track climate progress

Government of Rwanda should boost spending on trees on farms, study says Trees on farms are vital to human well-being, providing households with food, fuelwood, and rural...

Long road ahead to translate NBS into practice - CIFOR Forests News

Long road ahead to translate NBS into practice - CIFOR Forests News

Nature-based solutions (NBS) have quickly gained popularity as an umbrella term for actions that work in harmony with natural ecosystems to produce far-reaching benefits for...

“Existential threats,” harsh warnings and hope in U.N. Global Land Outlook - CIFOR Forests News

“Existential threats,” harsh warnings and hope in U.N. Global Land Outlook - CIFOR Forests News

“At no other point in modern history has humanity faced such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks and hazards interacting in a hyper-connected and rapidly changing world,”...

Bioenergy from degraded peatlands could help meet growing energy demand - International Tropical Peatlands Center

Bioenergy from degraded peatlands could help meet growing energy demand - International Tropical Peatlands Center

Across the globe, demand for energy is growing – and it’s tipped to increase by almost 50% over the coming three decades. But as we work to phase out fossil fuel use and...

What’s missing in land restoration: the ‘middle’

What’s missing in land restoration: the ‘middle’

To achieve global and national restoration goals, involvement of groups at all levels of society is needed, argue researchers in a new policy brief. While evidence that...

First wildcat kittens born at Saving Wildcats conservation breeding for release centre

First wildcat kittens born at Saving Wildcats conservation breeding for release centre

Wildcat kittens, which will likely be among the first of their species to be released into the wild in Britain, have been born in the Saving Wildcats conservation breeding for...

Vitally important pollinators should be looked after in commercial forests, too – new guidelines improve forest biodiversity - Forest.fi

Vitally important pollinators should be looked after in commercial forests, too – new guidelines improve forest biodiversity - Forest.fi

The decline of pollinator populations is a problem shared by all humankind, and looking after them is also important in commercial forests. Forest.fi publishes a preview of new...

DRYAD: sustainable management of community forests in Cameroon

DRYAD: sustainable management of community forests in Cameroon

Lessons from DRYAD’s financing of community forestry enterprises are applicable globally. In June 2015, World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and partners began the roll-out of a...

Five ways climate change is intensifying the threats to plant health

Five ways climate change is intensifying the threats to plant health

Five ways climate change is intensifying the threats to plant health The spread of plant diseases and pests is on the rise due to a changing climate Plants are responsible for...