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    Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities natural infrastructure water pollution
    Equity & Governance
    Outcomes
    February 13, 2024

    Indonesia’s Indigenous and Community Groups Secure Legal Rights to Forests

    • Top Outcome: 2023
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Forests
    • conservation
    Local people from Takal Pasir Village conducting a survey of the Singkil peat swamp forest.
    • Top Outcome: 2023
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Forests
    • conservation
    Freshwater
    Insights
    January 10, 2024

    More Critical Minerals Mining Could Strain Water Supplies in Stressed Regions

    • Freshwater
    • water pollution
    • water quality
    • Water Quality
    Workers extracting lithium in Bolivia.
    • Freshwater
    • water pollution
    • water quality
    • Water Quality
    Climate
    Insights
    December 4, 2023

    What Exactly Are "Nature-based Solutions”?

    • nature-based solutions
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • biodiversity
    • natural infrastructure
    A woman reaches up to tend to a tree she's planted.
    • nature-based solutions
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • biodiversity
    • natural infrastructure
    Forests
    Asia Latin America
    Insights
    November 20, 2023

    Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are Using Satellite Data to Fight Deforestation

    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Man building a canopy blind in a tropical forest
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    June 19, 2023

    Ending Deforestation in the Amazon Can Grow Brazil’s GDP — But That’s Not the Only Reason to Do It

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Climate
    Silhouette of a man standing in a river surrounded by trees in the Amazon rainforest.
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Climate
    Equity & Governance
    Outcomes
    June 5, 2023

    Indonesia’s Indigenous People Secure Forest and Land Rights

    • Top Outcome: 2022
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    West Papua
    • Top Outcome: 2022
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Forests
    Initiatives
    April 13, 2023

    Restore Local

    Cooperative members.
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    January 6, 2023

    Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks

    • land rights
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Man in a canoe in Ecuador's Amazon forest
    • land rights
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Climate
    News
    December 21, 2022

    World Resources Institute and Global Environment Facility to Host New Secretariat for the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People

    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Blasket Islands.
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Freshwater
    Research
    November 29, 2022

    Better Forests, Better Cities

    Cityscape behind lush forest.
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Videos
    September 21, 2022

    Restoring Land, Restoring Lives: Learning from Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh

    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    Forests
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Global Forest Watch Helps Indigenous Peoples Reduce Deforestation

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Aerial view over a tropical forest with a river meandering through the canopy
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Freshwater
    North America
    Update
    August 30, 2022

    Small Reservoirs More Vulnerable to Climate Extremes

    • Freshwater
    • Water Quality
    • Water Security
    • water pollution
    A manmade reservoir with powerlines in the background
    • Freshwater
    • Water Quality
    • Water Security
    • water pollution
    Cities
    Update
    May 23, 2022

    New Analysis Shows Air, Water, Other Environmental Pollution Remain a Severe Global Threat

    • Cities
    • pollution
    • water pollution
    • Cities
    • pollution
    • water pollution
    Forests
    Asia
    Technical Perspectives
    March 10, 2022

    How To Responsibly Grow Millions of Trees Outside of Forests in India

    • restoration
    • landscapes
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    A small farm with dozens of trees growing around it.
    • restoration
    • landscapes
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance

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