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    Forests illegal logging UNFCCC
    Forests
    Initiatives
    March 5, 2021

    Open Timber Portal

    Photo credit: CIFOR/Flickr
    Forests
    North America
    Insights
    October 22, 2020

    Bringing New Life to Fallen Urban Trees

    • circular economy
    • Economics
    • health
    • restoration
    • illegal logging
    • Climate
    A pile of logs in a forest.
    • circular economy
    • Economics
    • health
    • restoration
    • illegal logging
    • Climate
    Forests
    Insights
    October 4, 2019

    Lumber Salvaged from Baltimore’s Row Houses and City Trees Creates Jobs and Cuts Wood Waste

    • Cities
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Urban trees in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood
    • Cities
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    November 5, 2018

    Cleaner-Burning Fuels at Kenyan Schools Feed Students and Protect Forests

    • Humans of Clean Energy
    • biofuels
    • illegal logging
    Kenya has lost 9 percent of its forests since 2000. Photo by pxhere
    • Humans of Clean Energy
    • biofuels
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Research
    August 24, 2018

    Sourcing Legally Produced Wood

    Forests
    North America
    Insights
    June 11, 2018

    DNA Testing Can Save Trees from Illegal Logging – and You Can Help

    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • deforestation
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Moss-covered bigleaf maple trees in the Hoh Rainforest
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • deforestation
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Asia
    Insights
    April 17, 2018

    2 Ways for China to Play a Bigger Role in Protecting Global Forests

    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    China is the world's largest timber market.
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    March 14, 2018

    With US Out of TPP, So Are Measures to Curb Illegal Logging

    • illegal logging
    • Forests
    rosewood
    • illegal logging
    • Forests
    Insights
    January 16, 2018

    Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

    • Equity
    • Finance
    • Ocean
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Water
    • Cities
    • Business
    • Economics
    • Aqueduct
    • stories to watch
    • Air Quality
    • climate change
    • restoration
    • international climate policy
    • fossil fuels
    • pollution
    • UNFCCC
    • U.S. policy
    • water risk
    • Equity
    • Finance
    • Ocean
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Water
    • Cities
    • Business
    • Economics
    • Aqueduct
    • stories to watch
    • Air Quality
    • climate change
    • restoration
    • international climate policy
    • fossil fuels
    • pollution
    • UNFCCC
    • U.S. policy
    • water risk
    Forests
    Asia
    Insights
    January 3, 2018

    Indonesia Has a Carrot to End Illegal Logging; Now It Needs a Stick

    • Business
    • deforestation
    • illegal logging
    Indonesian sawmill
    • Business
    • deforestation
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    August 21, 2017

    Climate Change Solutions: Bringing Forests to Center Stage

    • National Climate Action
    • climate change
    • Forests
    • UNFCCC
    Costa Rican forest trees
    • National Climate Action
    • climate change
    • Forests
    • UNFCCC
    Forests
    Insights
    April 7, 2017

    Rainforest CSI: How We’re Catching Illegal Loggers with DNA, Machine Vision and Chemistry

    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Stack of wood logs
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Equity
    Asia
    Insights
    March 22, 2017

    Protecting Forests with an Unexpected Legal Tool: Freedom of Information Laws

    • agriculture
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    logging truck transporting timber
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    February 23, 2017

    Guitar Industry Grapples with Trade Restrictions on Rosewood, One of its Most Prized Timbers

    • Business
    • illegal logging
    • Business
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    December 1, 2016

    PODCAST: The Sounds of Sustainability

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • podcasts
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Credit: Flickr/Javier Morales
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • podcasts
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    November 30, 2016

    Building a Sustainable Guitar: Mahogany

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    A twisting branch of mahogany
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    November 3, 2016

    Building a Sustainable Guitar: Ebony

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    October 17, 2016

    UN Issues New Protections for Rosewood Trees, the “Ivory of the Forest”

    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Rosewood stockpile
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    October 5, 2016

    Building a Sustainable Guitar: Rosewood

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Fender P Bass guitar
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    North America
    Insights
    September 15, 2016

    Building a Sustainable Guitar: Maple

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Bigleaf maple forest.
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging

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