Land Use

The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) asked food, agriculture and land-use companies to commit to ending deforestation by 2025.

Building highly efficient utility-scale solar farms on ever-smaller tracts of land is a top priority amid land-use conflicts over renewables.

Land trusts have started adressing the unfair advantages they bring to cities, and some are working to foster equity.

While Leopold did not explicitly recognize how the impacts of land exploitation fell disproportionately on the poor and on Black and Indigenous people and people of color, he came to believe that Western ethical frameworks had to expand to embrace land.

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How rural America can capitalize on the economic development benefits of the ongoing clean energy transition.

With Trump and Biden, voters have a striking choice this year.

We need to halve emissions by 2030, and we need to reverse nature loss. Neither is possible without the other.

Recent events have shown the deep divisions in our society, which often fall along racial and socioeconomic lines. Climate policy is not immune to these issues.

From voluntary surcharges, to bridge loans, to forest carbon credits, land trusts have a range of tools at their disposal that go beyond traditional easement and acquisition models