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UN-REDD | 22.08.19
Although forests are physically located within the territories of sovereign states, their environmental role extends far beyond these borders.
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Eco-Business | 22.08.19
The vast majority of banks in Asean are indifferent to climate change and other environmental and social threats in their lending operations, despite the associated risks staring them in the face.
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Forest News | 21.08.19
Making the conservation of tropical forest ecosystems financially attractive for communities and smallholder farmers is critical for meeting U.N. climate targets.
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WWF | 21.08.19
The LAC Climate Week takes place in Brazil with ever greater scientific evidence available, reflected in key UN reports released recently: the IPCC’s 1.5°C report, the IPBES biodiversity assessment, and the IPCC’s latest report on climate change and land.
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UN-REDD | 20.08.19
Many countries have been working on the design of their Safeguards Information Systems (SIS), but until now, only a few have put their SIS into operation.
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Science Daily | 20.08.19
To more accurately predict the capacity of trees and plants to sequester CO2 in the future, the researchers synthesized data from all elevated carbon dioxide experiments conducted so far, in grassland, shrubland, cropland and forest systems.
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Eco-Business | 20.08.19
The latest study surprises nobody. But it matters, because the Nature study clarifies a point of possible confusion. There have been changes in modern human history, but none of them global and synchronous.
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UCS | 19.08.19
This fight for the integrity of science is vital to our climate future, but the attack on INPE shows that it matters to us in another critical way.
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Scientific American | 19.08.19
Climate skeptics and deniers have often accused scientists of exaggerating the threat of climate change, but the evidence shows that not only have they not exaggerated, they have underestimated.
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Mongabay | 18.08.19
The authors of the paper determined that both deforestation and climate change had to be examined together, and not separately as is typically done, in order to determine a realistic future scenario.
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BBC News | 21.08.19
Inpe said it had detected more than 74,000 fires between January and August - the highest number since records began in 2013. It said it had observed more than 9,500 forest fires since Thursday, mostly in the Amazon region.
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Scientific American | 21.08.19
Alaska's average temperature in July was 58.1 degrees Fahrenheit — 5.4 degrees above the average and nearly 1 degree higher than the previous high set in July 2004.
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The Conversation | 21.08.19
Wildfires are becoming so frequent and intense that they are already turning some boreal forest areas from carbon sinks into net emitters.
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Phys.Org | 19.08.19
The blaze, the third in 10 days in the mountainous centre of the island, has forced the evacuation of several villages with a combined population of 9,000.
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Journal Articles & Publications
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WWF | 08.19
This is an update of WWF’s 2018 ‘Sustainable Banking in ASEAN report. The report benchmarks 35 ASEAN banks in six countries against a set of indicators that represent the robust ESG integration pillars ((Purpose, Policies, Processes, People, Products and Portfolio). .
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CARE et. al. | 08.19
This short paper draws on experience and learning from projects implemented by various development actors interested in gender transformation in adaptation. The paper describes where transformative change in gender relations has been sought and secured in adaptation initiatives and offers pointers for development actors and policy makers.
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WWF Forest & Climate | 21.08.19
Join WWF Forest and Climate and WWF-US’s Forest team as the Senior Program Officer, Forest & Climate Policy. The SPO’s major function is to provide strategic policy support on the topic of international forest and climate policy, with a specific focus on REDD+ and the Paris Agreement. Applications will be reviewed as soon as they are received.
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WRI | 28.08.19
Respondiendo a las solicitudes de usuarios, la versión actualizada de la aplicación móvil Forest Watcher ofrece varias características nuevas. Tanto para usuarios nuevos como para usuarios habituales, ¡únase a este seminario web para aprender cómo aprovechar al máximo la aplicación móvil Forest Watcher!
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The LIFE FORECCAsT project | 31.08.19
The LIFE FORECCAsT project is pleased to invite project holders, scientists and stakeholders from around Europe to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations, to be delivered at the “Adapting forests to climate change: methods, tools, and projects” symposium.
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Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation | 09.09.19
Do you want to understand the role of rights in governing productive and sustainable landscapes? Join our international short course in Ghana, where we will see how securing rights can facilitate landscape transformation.
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Land | 30.09.19
The journal Land is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Collaboration and Multi-Stakeholder Engagement in Landscape Governance and Management in Africa: Lessons from Practice". Authors who are interested in this Special Issue should submit abstracts (300 words) by 30th September 2019.
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