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    Africa deforestation Towards a More Equal City
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    July 27, 2017

    Scientists Use Google Earth and Crowdsourcing to Map Uncharted Forests

    • carbon pricing
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    Local knowledge helped researchers ground-truth desert forest tracking. (WRI)
    • carbon pricing
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    Cities
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Insights
    July 12, 2017

    Confronting the Urban Housing Gap

    • Towards a More Equal City
    • housing
    • Equity & Governance
    • Urban Development
    Informal housing in Dhaka, Bangladesh
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • housing
    • Equity & Governance
    • Urban Development
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    May 19, 2017

    We Discovered 1.8 Million Square Miles of Forest in the Desert

    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • Forests
    • mapping
    Dryland forest in Kenya
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • Forests
    • mapping
    Forests
    Africa Latin America
    Insights
    February 15, 2017

    Can We Restore 350 Million Hectares by 2030?

    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    Woman in African field
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    January 24, 2017

    Awash in Green and Gold: The Emerging Restoration Economy in Kenya

    • Forests
    • Business
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    seedling in a Kenyan nursery
    • Forests
    • Business
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    Africa
    Insights
    November 18, 2016

    African Nations Poised to Rapidly Accelerate Landscape Restoration

    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    Restoration project in Kenya
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    September 13, 2016

    Kenya to Restore Denmark-sized Area of Degraded Land

    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    Farmers in Kenya
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    Forests
    Africa Asia Latin America
    News
    June 8, 2016

    RELEASE: For the First Time, Companies Can Gauge Deforestation Risk by Evaluating Palm Oil Mills

    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • commodities
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • commodities
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    April 11, 2016

    Restoring Africa’s Degraded Lands by Improving Farmers’ Rights

    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Restoration at work on Ethiopia’s steep slopes
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    January 29, 2016

    Looking Back on 5 Years of Forest Outcomes

    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • mapping
    • restoration
    Tree Planting and Degraded Landscape, Ethiopia
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • mapping
    • restoration
    Forests
    Africa Latin America
    Insights
    January 25, 2016

    Forest Loss Pushes Far Beyond Plantation Boundaries in South America, Africa

    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • mapping
    • commodities
    Orangutans at Camp Leakey, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • mapping
    • commodities
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    December 6, 2015

    Fighting Climate Change with Trees in Africa

    • deforestation
    • COP21
    • global forest watch
    • restoration
    Wanjira Mathai (center) with Andrew Steer and Jane Goodall at AFR100 launch, Paris. Photo credit: Sarah Weber
    • deforestation
    • COP21
    • global forest watch
    • restoration
    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
    Forests
    Asia
    Insights
    September 2, 2015

    Datos Satelitales Recientes Resaltan 5 Áreas Soprendentes de Pérdida de Cobertura Arbórea

    • deforestation
    • coral reefs
    • data
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Camión de madera en Camerún. Foto: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR/Flickr.
    • deforestation
    • coral reefs
    • data
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Africa Latin America Asia
    Insights
    September 2, 2015

    Les Satellites Détectent 5 Points Majeurs Imprévus de Perte de la Couverture Arborée

    • deforestation
    • data
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Camión de madera en Camerún. Foto: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR/Flickr.
    • deforestation
    • data
    • Forests
    • global forest watch

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