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Climate finance often fails to reach people most at risk in developing nations – local governments and affected communities need more influence on spending.
“Different stakeholders, from law enforcement authorities to local residents in remote communities, have their roles to play. As reporters, we need to gain more in-depth knowledge in order to report correct information to the public.”
On a recent trip, the project team facilitated a participatory mapping exercise to gain a better understanding of the village’s resources, assets and key challenges.
In the Kingdom of Bhutan, a mountainous country nestled between India and Tibet, you can’t just wander into the forest during the months from sowing to harvest.
As NASA satellites have highlighted between 1987 and 2012, the forests in Paraguay lost nearly 44,000 square km through conversion to farmland or grazing land. That’s an area roughly the size of Honduras.
Peru’s indigenous communities play an essential role in the sustainable management of land and forests and, as such, in mitigating and adapting to climate change.
To plug this gap, we urge more countries that have tropical forests to adopt a tropical carbon tax — in South and Central America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
The researchers used early-warning alerts of tree cover loss in 2019 to estimate total deforestation in the five countries and then compared the figures with historical rates going back to 2001.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 01.20
In 2017, member states of IPBES adopted an ILK Approach including: procedures for assessments of nature and nature’s linkages with people; a participatory mechanism; and institutional arrangements for including indigenous peoples and local communities.
Here, we assess C stocks in logged lowland forests in central Vietnam and explore correlations between logging intensity, soil, topography and living aboveground carbon (AGC) stocks.
Focusing on two study regions in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, we used a trait‐based approach to examine how seed dispersal functionality within tropical plant communities changes across a landscape‐scale gradient of human modification, including both regenerating secondary forests and primary forests disturbed by burning and selective logging.
Global Futures is a landmark study using cutting-edge modelling to explore the global economic impacts of natural capital depletion. The study uses new economic and environmental modelling to calculate the costs of nature’s decline across 140 countries and all key industry sectors.
In work led by the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), the UN-REDD programme has supported over 20 developing countries to build capacity and analyze where REDD+ actions could result in some of these non-carbon benefits.
The central objective of Africa Climate Week is to share ways for governments to implement the Paris Agreement in Africa, making use of all the planning tools and support available under the Paris Agreement.
