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And only 8 percent of global companies involved in the production of commodities associated with deforestation have publicly committed to ending it.
by Steve Zwick
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Deforestation is growing, and the fight against it is grabbing public attention. Here's the full story.
by Steve Zwick
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The U. N. Sustainable Development Goals could be a game changer for forestry and agriculture, although challenges remain.
by Steve Zwick
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Private sector participation dipped in 2013, the recent State of Voluntary Carbon Markets report found.
by Steve Zwick
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Primatologist Biruté Galdikas thought all was lost when she learned that palm oil company PT Best was about to destroy Borneo's Seruyan Forest.
by Steve Zwick
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For those trying to save ecosystems, it would help to know how much they're really worth -- in terms of tangible commodities like timber and clean water -- to corporations and economies that depend on them. This month, groups conclude a five-year effort to value the ecosystems in Eastern Arc Mountain in Africa. Here's how they did it.
by Steve Zwick
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The third annual review from the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project finds that many more big companies are starting to measure and report their forest-related impacts and risks, but Big Oil as an industry falls far short of transparency.
by Steve Zwick
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Deforestation and outdated farming methods combined generate more than 30 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, which is why financing mechanisms aimed at tackling both are hot topics as UN Climate talks open this week. The REDD+ Partners spent Sunday working through a two-year work program they aim to finalize next week.
by Steve Zwick
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Experts say it will cost $300 billion per year by 2020 to stop biodiversity loss, but the Global Canopy says that we are now only delivering between $36 billion and $38 billion per year.
by Steve Zwick
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The apparent conflict between commerce and nature is a false one, because in the long run everything we buy, sell, eat, and produce is derived from nature. If we destroy nature, we destroy our own livelihoods.
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by Steve Zwick
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While there are a number of projects underway, payments for ecosystem services (PES) in the Southeast Asia region primarily occurs on an ad hoc basis through small-scale pilot projects. NGO Forest Trends has chosen Vietnam as the location for the next Katoomba PES Conference because the information, capacity and insitutional support is historically lacking in this region.
by Steve Zwick
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Companies that rescue and restore forests to earn money by capturing carbon in trees likely expanded their operations in 2009, despite the global recession and regulatory uncertainty, capping three years of accelerating growth, according to the first-ever global survey of emerging markets in forest carbon.
by Steve Zwick