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Blog Posts: deforestation
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by - During the 2010s governments and companies set unprecedented commitments to curb deforestation, but have fallen short. As the 2020s begin, here's what has changed for forests and what to look for in an uncertain new era.
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by and - Le cacao a peut-être bien été « la matière première dont la performance a été la meilleure en 2018 », l'ombre du changement climatique ne s'en profile pas moins sur les perspectives à long terme de l'industrie. Des titres de journaux alarmants tels que «...
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by , , and - Forests help stabilize the climate and generate income, food and energy. We have plenty of evidence about what works to conserve and restore them. So why haven’t such measures been adopted at scale?
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by and - An emerging body of work converges on the consensus that we need to drastically and urgently transform how we manage food and forests to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
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by , and - According to data displayed on Global Forest Watch Fires, there have been 66,000 fire alerts in Indonesia from January through the end of September. While this is much lower than fire levels in 2015 — which saw more than 110,000 alerts at the end of September — it far exceeds levels in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
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by , and - Southeast Asia's Mekong region has lost much of its forests. A new satellite imagery technique reveals countries like Thailand are reversing the trend, not just in forests but on farms and villages too.
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by and - Research shows that ambition to tackle big sustainability problems can emerge when the private and public sector recognize and reciprocate one another's efforts. Right now, one such "ambition loop," which aims to reduce deforestation related to your chocolate bars, is in danger of stalling out.
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by and - We tested 73 wood products from well-known US retailers. More than half the time, the wood wasn't even the species it was labeled to be.
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by and - Frances Seymour, a WRI Distinguished Senior Fellow, and Nancy Harris, Research Manager at Global Forest Watch, offer their expert perspective on tropical deforestation in the journal Science as the world's attention is riveted on fires in the Amazon and around the globe.
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