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    Forests Insights
    Forests
    Asia
    Insights
    October 2, 2023

    What Is Peat Subsidence and How Can Countries Prevent this Environmental Disaster?

    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • restoration
    • land use
    Local people in a boat survey the Singkil Peat Swamp in Indonesia.
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • restoration
    • land use
    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
    Africa
    Insights
    August 30, 2023

    What to Watch at the First Africa Climate Summit

    • adaptation finance
    • climate finance
    • Energy
    • Finance
    • renewable energy
    • Forests
    • Cities
    • COP28
    Rooftop solar panels in Kenya
    • adaptation finance
    • climate finance
    • Energy
    • Finance
    • renewable energy
    • Forests
    • Cities
    • COP28
    Forests
    Insights
    August 29, 2023

    The Latest Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse

    • deforestation
    • fires
    • agriculture
    • Climate
    • climate science
    Forest fire in Borneo, Indonesia
    • deforestation
    • fires
    • agriculture
    • Climate
    • climate science
    Food
    Insights
    July 20, 2023

    How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore

    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • conservation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
    An aerial view of a section of rain forest cleared for agriculture.
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • conservation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
    Forests
    Insights
    July 20, 2023

    Wood Is Not the Climate-friendly Building Material Some Claim it to Be

    • Food
    • land use
    • Climate
    • commodities
    • Buildings
    unloading log truck at lumber processing mill
    • Food
    • land use
    • Climate
    • commodities
    • Buildings
    Forests
    Insights
    July 5, 2023

    Harvesting Wood Has Overlooked Carbon Costs

    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    • land use
    • deforestation
    • Food
    A loading dock filled with timber on the coast in China.
    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    • land use
    • deforestation
    • Food
    Cities
    North America
    Insights
    June 9, 2023

    5 Ways Wildfires Affect People Near and Far

    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • fires
    • Climate
    • Cities
    Women wear masks in New York City after Canadian wildfire causes dangerous air pollution
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • fires
    • Climate
    • Cities
    Forests
    Insights
    May 22, 2023

    How Companies Can Use Voluntary Carbon Markets to Help Protect Tropical Forests

    • deforestation
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Finance
    Houses sit among a misty tropical forest.
    • deforestation
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Finance
    Forests
    Insights
    April 16, 2023

    Investing in Local Communities and Entrepreneurs Offers New Hope for Africa’s Degraded Lands

    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • agriculture
    • Food
    Local farmers help restore degraded landscapes in Africa
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • agriculture
    • Food
    Forests
    Insights
    April 14, 2023

    Restoring Degraded Forests Could Bring Back Lost Rainfall, Cooler Temperatures

    • Forests
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • deforestation
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    Men planting a tree.
    • Forests
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • deforestation
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    Forests
    Insights
    March 1, 2023

    Global Emissions and Local Deforestation Are Combining to Create Dangerous Levels of Heat Stress in the Tropics

    • deforestation
    • Climate
    • health
    • agriculture
    A woman harvests acai berries from the Amazon in the traditional way, using a palm tool.
    • deforestation
    • Climate
    • health
    • agriculture
    Latin America North America Europe
    Insights
    January 26, 2023

    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
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    January 6, 2023

    Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks

    • land rights
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Man in a canoe in Ecuador's Amazon forest
    • land rights
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Food
    Insights
    December 20, 2022

    The World Is Growing More Crops — but Not for Food

    • agriculture
    • Forests
    Rice paddies
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    Forests
    Insights
    November 29, 2022

    How Forests Near and Far Benefit People in Cities

    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • Water Quality
    • Water Security
    • health
    • Climate
    • biodiversity
    urban forest
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • Water Quality
    • Water Security
    • health
    • Climate
    • biodiversity
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    November 14, 2022

    What Could a “Bioeconomy” in the Amazon Look Like?

    • Forests
    • forest products
    • Forest Legality
    Aerial view of Amazon River
    • Forests
    • forest products
    • Forest Legality
    Forests
    Insights
    November 2, 2022

    The World’s Last Intact Forests Are Becoming Increasingly Fragmented

    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • forest monitoring
    A car makes its way down a road that winds through woods
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • forest monitoring
    Forests
    Insights
    October 23, 2022

    Policies Underestimate Forests’ Full Effect on the Climate

    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Paris Agreement
    • GHG emissions
    Amazon rainforest
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Paris Agreement
    • GHG emissions
    Climate
    Insights
    October 13, 2022

    Where Do We Stand on COP26 Climate Promises? A Progress Report

    • NDC
    • climate finance
    • net-zero emissions
    • electric mobility
    • renewable energy
    • Cities
    • Climate Resilience
    • Forests
    • climatewatch-pinned
    A group of volunteers plant mangroves
    • NDC
    • climate finance
    • net-zero emissions
    • electric mobility
    • renewable energy
    • Cities
    • Climate Resilience
    • Forests
    • climatewatch-pinned

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