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STATEMENT: WRI Responds to Major Commitments on Forests at the UN Climate Summit

  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • deforestation
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  • International Climate Action
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STATEMENT: WRI Reacts to Major Announcements on Cities, Forests, and Carbon Pricing at UN Climate Summit

  • International Climate Action
  • Cities
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  • Economics
  • Forests
  • International Climate Action
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ADVISORY: WRI Experts Explain What to Expect at the UN Climate Summit

  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • International Climate Action
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STATEMENT: Global Forest Watch Wins UN Big Data Climate Challenge Prize

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5 Reasons To Watch NYC’s Climate Summit

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  • Energy
  • Food
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  • Cities
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  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Business
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
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UN headquarters in New York City (Photo credit United Nations)
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Putting out fires in Riau, March 2014. Photo by Julius Lawalata / WRI.
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New Palm Oil Production Maps Mark a Milestone in Transparency

  • deforestation
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Most palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia. Photo credit: Achmad Rabin Taim, Wikimedia Commons
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RELEASE: First Detailed Public Maps of RSPO Certified Palm Oil Concessions Released

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  • low carbon development
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Three Reasons Investors Are Beginning to Take Sustainability Seriously

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  • Climate
  • climate change
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Palm oil plantation workers in Sumatra, Indonesia. Wilmar, a leading Asian agribusiness group, which trades more than 45 percent of the global palm oil supply, is committed to a deforestation-free supply chain. Photo Credit: CIFOR/Flickr
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3 Tales of Hope for a Low-Carbon Future

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  • climate change
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At last week's "Ascent" meeting in Abu Dhabi, clubs of countries and companies committed to double the share of renewable energy and the pace of energy efficiency gains. Photo credit: CoCreatr, Flickr
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Photo credit: CIFOR, Flickr 2011
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Indonesian Fires Bring More Haze to Southeast Asia

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  • illegal logging
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A forest fire in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, in September of 2011. Photo credit: Rini Sulaiman, Norwegian Embassy for Center for International Forestry Research
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9 Maps that Explain the World's Forests

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Global Forest Watch is an online forest monitoring system created by the World Resources Institute and more than 40 partners. Photo credit: Marco Simola, CIFOR
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“Swapping Land” to Produce Sustainable Palm Oil in Indonesia

  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
  • commodities
Oil palm fruit is loaded into a truck at a plantation near Bengkulu, Sumatra. Photo: WRI/ James Anderson
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Suitability Mapper

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  • Forests
  • commodities
tree planting in Mombasa, Kenya