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5 Strategies that Achieve Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Simultaneously

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • restoration
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • wetlands
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Reroroja village
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • restoration
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • wetlands
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
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Heidelberg, Germany
  • climate science
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • environmental democracy
News
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement
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What Indonesia Doesn’t Know About Peatlands Could Undermine its Climate Goals

  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • mapping
  • wetlands
Peat swamp forests of the Katingan Peatland Reserve in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • mapping
  • wetlands
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Climate Milestones of 2015: The Good, the Bad and the Signs to Watch

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • extreme weather
Satellite image of central U.S. storm, December 28, 2015. Photo credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • extreme weather
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Greater Efficiency in Aviation and Maritime: The Double Win Trajectory

  • Economics
  • GHG emissions
  • energy efficiency
  • greenhouse gases
  • international climate policy
The aviation and maritime sectors are an increasingly significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Photo by Bridget Coila/Flickr.
  • Economics
  • GHG emissions
  • energy efficiency
  • greenhouse gases
  • international climate policy

What Does Environmental Democracy Look Like?

  • Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy
Eight years ago, developers proposed a five-dam project on the Baker and Pascua Rivers in Patagonia, Chile. While they projected that the hydropower would produce 2,750 megawatts of power, the project would also flood 23 square miles of wilderness, jeopardizing the environment, local culture, and tourism of the region. Photo Credit: International Rivers/Flickr
  • Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy

UNEP’s New Access to Information Policy Falls Short of True Transparency

  • Equity & Governance
  • Business
  • environmental democracy
UNEP describes itself as “the voice for the environment within the United Nations system…acting as a catalyst, advocate, educator and facilitator to promote the wise use and sustainable development of the global environment.” Photo Credit: UN/Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • Business
  • environmental democracy

Forests for Water

Watersheds of the Southern United States

  • natural infrastructure
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • wetlands
  • Water Quality
  • natural infrastructure
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • wetlands
  • Water Quality

Forests and Water: Green Infrastructure Can Be Less Expensive Than Gray Infrastructure

  • natural infrastructure
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
  • wetlands
  • natural infrastructure
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
  • wetlands
Data

Comparing the Economic and Social Value of Mangroves and Shrimp Farms

  • agriculture
  • biodiversity
  • Economics
  • natural infrastructure
  • natural resources
  • low carbon development
  • Freshwater
  • wetlands
  • agriculture
  • biodiversity
  • Economics
  • natural infrastructure
  • natural resources
  • low carbon development
  • Freshwater
  • wetlands