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To succeed in the fight against climate change we have to do two big things: Stop emitting carbon dioxide and remove the excess carbon dioxide we have already emitted.
Using board games, arts and handicrafts, outdoor sports, and movies – all in Lingala – young and dynamic facilitators engage get the full attention of students, regardless of their age.
More than one-third of the world’s remaining pristine forests, known as intact forest landscapes, exist within land that’s either managed or owned by indigenous peoples, a new study has found.
The report...names failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change as the key concern for the Forum’s network of business leaders, NGOs, academics and others.
"La concesión de títulos de propiedad de nuestras tierras comunitarias ha sido un paso importante de cara a que nuestros territorios y bosques estén más protegidos."
Colombia is asking indigenous Amazon tribes to suggest ways to spend more than $7 million available to fight deforestation, the nation’s environment minister said on Wednesday.
An annual climate report released on Wednesday by the United States government says that 2019 was the second-hottest year on record and that all five of the world's warmest years have occurred since 2015.
“We are seeing a sign of what would be normal conditions in a 3C world. It tells us what the future world might look like. This really brings home what climate change means.”
It’s a simple enough idea: the sum of all the greenhouse gases that you put into and take out of the atmosphere should balance out to zero. But in practice, it’s proven to be a confusing and divisive concept.
In this study, I examine the main factors influencing forest area change by synthesizing the results of a multinational data analysis, a Malaysian socio-economic survey, and Indonesian household surveys on deforestation that were conducted between 1990 and 2014.
The challenges before us demand immediate collective action, but fractures within the global community appear to only be widening. Stakeholders need to act quickly and with purpose within an unsettled global landscape.
In this report, we focus on understanding the nature and extent of physical risk from a changing climate over the next one to three decades, exploring physical risk as it is the basis of both transition and liability risks.
Numerous countries have made voluntary commitments to conduct forest landscape restoration over millions of hectares of degraded land in the coming decade. We consider the relative likelihood these countries will achieve their restoration commitments.
The Scorecard assesses 173 companies on the commitments they have made, and the actions they have taken, to ensure that there is no destruction of nature including no deforestation (“conversion-free”) along their supply chains and support a responsible and sustainable palm oil industry beyond their own supply chain.
In light of stark global climate challenges, Collaborative Climate Action is gaining traction in policymaking and in pursuit of reaching the goals formulated in the Paris Agreement. A Q&A session will follow the presentations of our speakers.
The goal of the photo contest is to engage DGM stakeholders in capturing experiences on the ground of DGM Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs)-led projects and livelihoods through visual storytelling.
