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    November 10, 2015

    RELEASE: First Interactive Global Map of Indigenous and Community Territories Will Help Secure Land Rights Worldwide and Boost Forest Conservation Efforts

    • mapping
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • mapping
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America
    News
    November 5, 2015

    ADVISORY: New Online Platform on Indigenous and Community Territories to Help Secure Land Rights Worldwide

    • mapping
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • mapping
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Climate
    Latin America
    News
    December 3, 2014

    ADVISORY: Latin American Countries to Launch Initiative 20x20 to Restore 20 Million Hectares of Degraded Land

    • Forests
    • Equity & Governance
    • COP20
    • restoration
    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    • Forests
    • Equity & Governance
    • COP20
    • restoration
    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    Africa Asia Europe Latin America North America
    Insights
    November 26, 2014

    What Would Success Look Like at COP 20 in Lima?

    • COP20
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Lima is a major milestone on the path to Paris and the 2015 climate agreement. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
    • COP20
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    Asia North America
    Insights
    November 25, 2014

    Opportunities in New Climate Economy

    • Climate
    • climate change
    • COP20
    • Economics
    • GHG emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama. Photo by U.S. Embassy, The Hague/Flickr.
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • COP20
    • Economics
    • GHG emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    Climate
    Asia North America
    Insights
    November 20, 2014

    The China-U.S. Climate Agreement: By the Numbers

    • International Climate Action
    • COP20
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • UNFCCC
    China plans to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 20 percent by 2020. (Yunnan, China) Photo by Mingjia Zhou/Flickr.
    • International Climate Action
    • COP20
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • UNFCCC
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    News
    July 23, 2014

    RELEASE: Strengthening Community Forest Rights is Critical Tool to Fight Climate Change, Says Major New Report

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    Forests
    North America
    Videos
    January 9, 2014

    Global Forest Watch | Conserving Assets, Creating Legacies | Peter Lee at TEDxNairobi

    • Forests
    • mapping
    • land rights
    • Forests
    • mapping
    • land rights
    Equity & Governance
    Africa North America
    Insights
    June 13, 2013

    Ending the "Resource Curse": Canada Commits to Make Mining More Transparent

    • Business
    • environmental democracy
    • extractive industries
    • natural resources
    • Business
    • environmental democracy
    • extractive industries
    • natural resources
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    May 20, 2013

    What Exporting U.S. Natural Gas Means for the Climate

    • Energy
    • climate change
    • extractive industries
    • fossil fuels
    • U.S. policy
    • Energy
    • climate change
    • extractive industries
    • fossil fuels
    • U.S. policy
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    May 8, 2013

    U.S. Natural Gas Exports: Friend or Foe?

    • Energy
    • climate change
    • extractive industries
    • fossil fuels
    • U.S. policy
    • Energy
    • climate change
    • extractive industries
    • fossil fuels
    • U.S. policy
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    May 6, 2013

    5 Reasons Why It’s (Still) Important to Reduce Fugitive Methane Emissions

    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • Energy
    • U.S. policy
    • extractive industries
    • fossil fuels
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • Energy
    • U.S. policy
    • extractive industries
    • fossil fuels
    Asia North America
    Insights
    April 24, 2013

    Exploring Prospects for U.S. Coal Exports to China

    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • extractive industries
    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • extractive industries
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    March 28, 2013

    New Data Reveals Rising Coal Use

    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • climate change
    • extractive industries
    • power plants
    • U.S. policy
    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • climate change
    • extractive industries
    • power plants
    • U.S. policy
    Energy
    North America
    Research
    February 11, 2011

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