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    Equity & Governance environmental justice Forests mapping Data Insights
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    September 7, 2023

    From Ethiopia’s Highlands to India’s Villages, How Faith Organizations Are Restoring the World’s Forests

    • Forests
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Equity
    A small white church with a cross on top is perched on a steep mountainside encircled by trees.
    • Forests
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Equity
    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
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 24, 2023

    2 Years of Justice40: Integrating Environmental Justice into US Climate Policy

    • environmental justice
    • Equity & Governance
    • infrastructure
    • Energy
    • U.S. policy
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
    Smokestacks in the background of a neighborhood with rowhouses in Baltimore, MD
    • environmental justice
    • Equity & Governance
    • infrastructure
    • Energy
    • U.S. policy
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
    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
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    December 9, 2021

    Why Aren't Countries Reporting Environmental Defender Killings?

    • Environmental Rights
    • environmental justice
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Cleared land in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
    • Environmental Rights
    • environmental justice
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    September 16, 2021

    Funding for an Equitable Clean Energy Transition Already Exists

    • Clean Energy
    • Finance
    • environmental justice
    • Equity & Governance
    Wind turbine at dusk, Columbia Gorge, Wasco, Oregon, USA
    • Clean Energy
    • Finance
    • environmental justice
    • Equity & Governance
    Freshwater
    Latin America
    Insights
    August 30, 2021

    Improving Water Security Helps Reduce the Gender Gap in Mexico City

    • Forests
    • Gender
    • drought
    • infrastructure
    • water risk
    A woman selling snacks from a cart in the middle of a busy plaza in Mexico City.
    • Forests
    • Gender
    • drought
    • infrastructure
    • water risk
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    August 18, 2021

    3 Benefits of Women’s Collective Land Rights

    • Gender
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • human rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    An all-women community forest user group in Nepal.
    • Gender
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • human rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Climate
    Insights
    May 4, 2021

    There Is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice

    • environmental justice
    • Equity & Governance
    A climate protest. Climate activists walk with a sign that reads climate justice equals racial justice.
    • environmental justice
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    March 25, 2021

    4 Ways Indigenous and Community Lands Help Fight Climate Change

    • Climate
    • Forests
    • National Climate Action
    • Paris Agreement
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • National Climate Action
    • Paris Agreement
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    February 11, 2021

    5 Lessons for Securing Women’s Collective Land Rights

    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • Gender
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Community forest
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • Gender
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Forests
    Insights
    January 21, 2021

    Forests Absorb Twice As Much Carbon As They Emit Each Year

    • GHG emissions
    • Forests
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • GHG emissions
    • Forests
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    December 16, 2020

    China Can Save Forests While Strengthening Its Economic Resilience

    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    Bolivian soy plantation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    Forests
    Asia
    Insights
    December 8, 2020

    Building Equitable Economies by Restoring Landscapes in India

    • Economics
    • Forests
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Two people standing in a field at the edge of a mountain.
    • Economics
    • Forests
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Cities
    Insights
    September 29, 2020

    Green Space: An Underestimated Tool to Create More Equal Cities

    • Climate Resilience
    • Forests
    • coronavirus
    • Cities
    • Equity & Governance
    • natural infrastructure
    • Urban Development
    People walking through a park.
    • Climate Resilience
    • Forests
    • coronavirus
    • Cities
    • Equity & Governance
    • natural infrastructure
    • Urban Development
    Forests
    Insights
    January 10, 2020

    10 Big Changes for Forests Over the Last Decade

    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    October 17, 2019

    In a Small Amazonian Community, Agroforestry Takes Off

    • Forests
    • restoration
    • Gender
    Planting native trees in Juruti. Joana Oliveira/WRI Brasil
    • Forests
    • restoration
    • Gender
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    September 16, 2019

    For Rural Communities, Protecting Land Is a Better Investment than Deforestation

    • Food
    • Forests
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    In India's Narmada District, legal recognition of communities' land rights have enabled villages to invest in sustainable, more productive land management. Photo by...
    • Food
    • Forests
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    August 8, 2019

    The IPCC Calls for Securing Community Land Rights to Fight Climate Change

    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Women of Peru's Awajun Native Community of Shampuyacu
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

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