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November 08, 2018
A webinar which will share experiences of restoration and sustainable management of grasslands among practitioners and policy makers in Latin America. Note: This webinar will be in Spanish.
forests
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by Sabin Ray - October 05, 2018Social network analysis has been used in fields as diverse as epidemiology and counterterrorism. Now, WRI experts have devised a guidebook for applying social network analysis to environmental interventions and sustainable development.
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by David Gibbs, Nancy Harris and Frances Seymour - October 04, 2018If tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank third in global emissions behind China and the United States. Tree cover loss is on the rise, but channeling climate mitigation finance towards forests could change the course of the world's climate.
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by Katie Lyons - October 01, 2018With a million dollars at stake, a crack team of scientists combined cutting-edge technologies to address one of Indonesia's pressing environmental challenges: mapping the extensive peatlands that sequester massive amounts of carbon.
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by Mikaela Weisse and Katie Lyons - September 27, 2018Charcoal production is destroying mountain gorillas' habitat in Virunga National Park. Pastureland is pushing into protected forests in Brazil. Satellites are watching these and other threatened forests.
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by Kathleen Buckingham, Ornanong Maneerattana and Sabin Ray - September 21, 2018Social network analysis has been deployed in crisis disciplines like counterterrorism and public health. Using a new WRI guidebook, we applied it to environmental interventions, starting with forest restoration in Rwanda.
event
September 27, 2018
Join WRI’s Global Restoration Initiative in a webinar on the Institute’s first guidebook, Mapping Social Landscapes: A Guide to Identifying the Networks, Priorities, and Values of Restoration Actors. You will learn how mapping your social landscape can help build stronger local environmental movements.
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More than a quarter of global tree cover loss between 2001 and 2015 was associated with commodity-driven deforestation, not likely to be forested again, finds a new study published in Science.
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by Nancy Harris, Elizabeth Dow Goldman, Mikaela Weisse and Alyssa Barrett - September 13, 2018Global Forest Watch has always been able to tell you where tree cover loss has occurred. Now, in a huge leap, it can tell you why.
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by Katie Reytar, Marlena Chertock and Peter Veit - September 13, 2018Scientists estimate that by managing the world's land more sustainably, such as by protecting forests and investing in reforestation, we could achieve up to 37 percent of emissions reductions necessary to limit the global rise in temperature to 2 degrees Celsius by 2030.
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Today at the Global Climate Action Summit, 45 cities across six continents joined the Cities4Forests initiative, committing to conserve and restore their forests while making residents more aware of the vast benefits of trees.
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by John-Rob Pool, Frances Seymour, Todd Gartner and Mariana Campos - September 12, 2018Most people don’t associate cities with trees, but urban areas are actually dependent on healthy forests. A new initiative helps cities protect trees—both those within city boundaries and others hundreds or even thousands of miles away.
event
November 06, 2018 to November 07, 2018
The Sustainable Landscapes Conference will tackle the biggest issues faced by business in creating a net positive impact and ensuring sustainable and resilient agricultural supply chains.
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by Andrew Wu and Caroline Gagné - September 05, 2018Countries are joining the restoration movement, and especially the Bonn Challenge. But few have yet aligned their restoration and climate commitments. Doing so would make the planet greener—and the air cleaner—faster.
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September 12, 2018
This event highlights the challenges Indigenous Peoples and communities face in acquiring legal rights to their land, the loopholes companies can often take, and ways countries can simplify complex procedures.
publication
by Ruth Nogueron, Loretta Cheung, Jonathan Mason and Bo Li - August 2018This publication updates the 2014 version of Sourcing Legally Produced Wood, which provided information on illegal logging and associated trade, public and private procurement policies, export country logging and log export bans, and introductory guidance to the wood products legality legislation in the United States, the EU, and Australia.
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by Kathleen Buckingham, Sabin Ray, Ana Gabriela Morales, Ruchika Singh, Ornanong Maneerattana, Satrio Wicaksono, Hanny Chrysolite, Aaron Minnick, Lisa Johnston and Bernadette Arakwiye - August 2018This guidebook provides actionable, user-friendly strategies to improve natural resource governance by showing how to identify the networks, priorities, and values of relevant actors. The methodologies allow environmental practitioners to be more strategic in building resilient communities.
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by Susan Minnemeyer - August 20, 2018Hotter-than-normal temperatures and drought are bringing wildfires to wetter, cooler regions. Even places that experience fires annually, like California and Greece, are seeing a faster-than-usual start to their fires seasons.
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by Alain Engunda Ikala, Claire Halleux, Roger Mambeta and Lauren Williams - August 08, 2018Most of the tree cover loss in our sample concession occurred in areas where, using clues from the ground, we can conclude it wasn't illegal deforestation. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
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by Lucas Toh, Salima Mahamoudou and John-Rob Pool - August 07, 2018Nigerien farmers struggle with land degradation. Now, they're tuning in to a new radio program for tips on restoring their fields.