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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

4 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2023

  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • stories to watch
People dressed in warm clothes on bicycles carrying reusable shopping bags.
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • stories to watch

Colombia Shows Leadership in the Race Against Climate Change

  • Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
  • COP26
A cow grazes on a grassy hill, with forested hills in the misty background.
  • Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
  • COP26

Going Low-Carbon Can Help Brazil Build Back Better

  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • low carbon development
A Brazilian flag in front of a city.
  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • low carbon development

Chile's Enhanced Climate Plan Sets an Example for Other Countries

  • climatewatch-pinned
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • Freshwater
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
The buildings and roads of Santiago with the Andes mountains in the background.
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • Freshwater
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
Insights

Pour la durabilité de la production du cacao, les pays et les sociétés doivent s’engager

  • Climate
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Resilience
Producteur de cacao en Colombie.
  • Climate
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Resilience

Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week Is an Opportune Moment to Strengthen Regional Climate Action

  • long-term strategies
  • National Climate Action
  • Sustainable Development Goal 17
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
Aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Domenica
  • long-term strategies
  • National Climate Action
  • Sustainable Development Goal 17
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
Initiatives

New Climate Economy

Most of women covered by NHLP now have access to fresh vegetables for their meals and can even supply their surplus to be sold in the local market.

ADVISORY: High-Level Briefing on China-U.S. Cooperation on Energy and Climate Change

  • adaptation finance
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
Aerial shot of forest and agricultural landscapes in Brazil
  • Forests
  • deforestation

Protecting Indigenous Land Rights Makes Good Economic Sense

  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
River in Colombia
  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

What’s Next? EU, US and Colombia Show They’re Moving Forward with the Paris Agreement

  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
Going Green Conference
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy

A COP21 Surprise: Brazilian States Commit to Restore More than 3 Million Hectares of Degraded Land

  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • NDC
Mato Grosso forest
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • NDC

Initiative 20x20: A Landscape Restoration Movement Rises in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Forests
  • COP21
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • climate change
Peru forest
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • climate change
Insights

What Do Top Emitters' Greenhouse Gas Targets Mean for Emissions? It’s Not Always Clear

  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Wind turbines
  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC

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
Technical Perspectives

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

  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • Climate

STATEMENT: At COP21, Heads of State and Institutions Call for Pricing Carbon

  • carbon pricing
  • COP21
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • carbon pricing
  • COP21
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks

WRI Says Brazil is "Building Momentum" With New INDC

  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC

How Brazil Can Emerge as a Climate Leader

  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Economics
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
Brazil’s energy sector is now a major source of the country’s emissions and continues to become more carbon intensive as a result of greater reliance on fossil fuels. (São Paulo, Brazil) Photo by Bernardo Barlach/Flickr.
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Economics
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • NDC
  • international climate policy