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    Africa climate science forest monitoring
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    Insights
    November 29, 2023

    The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Development
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • COP28
    Brick layers during in a heatwave in New Delhi, India
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Development
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • COP28
    Forests
    Africa
    Update
    January 17, 2023

    Promotion of Charcoal Alternative May Help Fight Deforestation in Virunga National Park

    • Forests
    • forest products
    • forest monitoring
    Clouds settle over the mountains in Virunga National Park in DRC.
    • Forests
    • forest products
    • forest monitoring
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    January 11, 2022

    5 actions pour garantir que la foresterie communautaire marche en République du Congo

    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Sunset over the Sangha River in Bomassa, Republic of Congo.
    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    January 11, 2022

    5 Actions to Ensure Community Forestry Works in the Republic of Congo

    • Forests
    • forest monitoring
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Sunset over the Sangha River in Bomassa, Republic of Congo.
    • Forests
    • forest monitoring
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    October 14, 2021

    Quelle est la superficie des terres africaines en cours de restauration ? Nous ne le savons pas encore

    • restoration
    • forest monitoring
    Monitoring restoration can means assess the impact of many different techniques in the same area, like here in Makueni County, Kenya.
    • restoration
    • forest monitoring
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    October 14, 2021

    How Much Land is Being Restored in Africa? We Don’t Yet Know

    • restoration
    • forest monitoring
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    Monitoring restoration can means assess the impact of many different techniques in the same area, like here in Makueni County, Kenya.
    • restoration
    • forest monitoring
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    Forests
    Asia
    News
    March 16, 2021

    ADVISORY: Embargoed Press Call on WRI’s 2020 Tree Cover Loss Data with Analysis and Insights

    • deforestation
    • forest monitoring
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • deforestation
    • forest monitoring
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Oceania Latin America Africa Asia
    News
    May 19, 2020

    ADVISORY: Embargoed Press Call on Global Forest Watch 2019 Tree Cover Loss Data

    • fires
    • deforestation
    • forest monitoring
    • global forest watch
    • fires
    • deforestation
    • forest monitoring
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Asia Africa Latin America
    News
    September 13, 2018

    RELEASE: New Study Finds More Than a Quarter of Global Tree Cover Loss is Commodity-Driven Deforestation

    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    June 21, 2018

    PODCAST: How an App Saves Chimpanzees in Uganda

    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Rangers using Forest Watcher.
    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Asia Africa
    Insights
    September 26, 2017

    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
    Africa North America
    Insights
    October 28, 2016

    If Climate Change Is the Existential Crisis of Our Age, Why Isn’t it Getting More Attention?

    • climate science
    • drought
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • food security
    • sea level rise
    • U.S. policy
    California drought
    • climate science
    • drought
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • food security
    • sea level rise
    • U.S. policy
    Finance
    Asia
    Insights
    February 11, 2016

    How Does China’s Growing Overseas Investment Affect Africa’s Forests? 5 Things to Know

    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Africa
    Latin America Africa Asia
    Insights
    December 1, 2015

    New Platform Reveals How Much Carbon Is Locked in Tropical Forests – and How Much Was Lost

    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Forests
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • NDC
    • international climate policy
    • mapping
    • UNFCCC
    GFW Climate will help measure emissions from tropical deforestation. Photo credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/14626255095/in/album-72157645614284212/">M. Edliadi for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">cc</a>
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Forests
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • NDC
    • international climate policy
    • mapping
    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Technical Perspectives
    December 1, 2015

    INSIDER: What’s Your Benchmark? Using the GFW Climate Platform to Identify Clearer Targets

    • Forests
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • Climate
    Latin America
    News
    September 2, 2015

    RELEASE: New Global Data Finds Tropical Forests Declining in Overlooked Hotspots

    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Insights
    August 3, 2015

    Beyond Cecil the Lion: How the Lacey Act Protects Wildlife and Plants around the World

    • forest monitoring
    • commodities
    • forest monitoring
    • commodities
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    April 11, 2014

    What Is the Role for Transformation in Adaptation?

    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate science
    Authors of a paper on transformational adaptation have deemed the development of wheat-resistant maize in Africa “transformative." Photo credit: WorldFish, Flickr 2012
    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate science
    Climate
    Africa Asia Europe
    News
    March 30, 2014

    STATEMENT: WRI Responds to IPCC Report

    • climate science
    • climate change
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • Climate Resilience

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