Stories: Project POTICO: Sustainable Palm Oil on Low Carbon Degraded Land

Can the world have its palm oil and forests, too? This is an issue that my colleague and I discussed a while back.

Forest Cover Analyzer and Suitability Mapper to be used by business and government to reduce deforestation

This post was co-authored with Anne Rosenbarger, a POTICO Fellow at Sekala.

Today WRI releases a working paper that provides new information about Indonesia’s moratorium on new fo

A summary of key elements, and unanswered questions, in Indonesia’s recent moratorium on new forest permits.

This piece originally appeared in the Washington Post Environmental Leadership supplement on April 20, 2011, and is reposted with permission.

A highly anticipated two-year moratorium on new forest conversion permits could bring fundamental improvements to forest and land management in Indonesia.

The World Bank Group should aim to achieve and measure poverty reduction, not palm oil investments.

2010 was a significant year for global efforts to tackle illegal logging. Here’s a look back on some of that progress.

The following interview with Craig Hanson and Moray McLeish was conducted and compiled by Jeremy Hance and Rhett A. Butler for mongabay.com and is reposted with permission. Read the entire piece here on the Mongabay website.