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Smallholder Farmers Are Key to Making the Palm Oil Industry Sustainable

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • commodities
Indonesian palm oil
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • commodities

Places to Watch: 3 Forest Regions at Risk Right Now

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
Palm Oil Plantations in Papua, New Guinea
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
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Photo Essay: How Climate Change Affects the Urban Poor in India and Indonesia

  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • climate change
Asian man standing by waterway
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • climate change
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To Save Indonesia’s Carbon-Rich Peatlands, Start by Mapping Them

  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • mapping
Peat swamp forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • mapping
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Indonesia Has a Carrot to End Illegal Logging; Now It Needs a Stick

  • Business
  • deforestation
  • illegal logging
Indonesian sawmill
  • Business
  • deforestation
  • illegal logging

RELEASE: New LandMark Data Measure Impacts of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Forests and Climate

  • Forests
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • land rights
  • Forests
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • land rights

Brazil and Indonesia Enact Landscape Restoration Policies

  • Top Outcome: 2017
Shade-grown coffee in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/CIFOR, Flickr
  • Top Outcome: 2017
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3 Ways Governments Can Prevent Fake Data on Forests

  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • mapping
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • mapping

Global Tree Cover Loss Rose 51 Percent in 2016

  • fires
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
Tree cover loss is on the rise. Flickr/CIFOR
  • fires
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
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Balancing Development and Forest Protection in Papua

  • Forests
  • commodities
Oil palm plantation
  • Forests
  • commodities
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For Electric Vehicles to Be Green Heroes, Indonesia Needs a Greener Grid

  • electric grid
  • fossil fuels
  • transportation
The first Indonesian hybrid EV, in 2010.
  • electric grid
  • fossil fuels
  • transportation
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Evaluating Indonesia’s Progress on its Climate Commitments

  • G20
  • National Climate Action
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
West Papua, Indonesia
  • G20
  • National Climate Action
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
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Forest Watcher Brings Data Straight to Environmental Defenders

  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Rangers checking Forest Watcher. Photo by Lilian Pintea
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

In Riau, Indonesia, Women Organize for Environmental Justice

  • Forests
  • environmental justice
  • Gender
  • global forest watch
dusty road to Sungai Berbari village
  • Forests
  • environmental justice
  • Gender
  • global forest watch
Woman drawing water from the Ciujung river
  • Equity & Governance
  • Freshwater

RELEASE: Is the Water Safe To Drink? Without Better Access to Pollution Information, Asia’s Poorest People Don’t Know

  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • Freshwater
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • Freshwater