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Written by: Natasha Vizcarra
Recently, one of the world’s largest insurance companies released a report warning that a fifth of countries worldwide are at risk of ecosystem collapse as biodiversity declines.
The report from the Swiss Re Group highlights the need for...
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Written by: Augusta Dwyer
Even though Indigenous communities protect some of the most critically important forest ecosystems, conserving a wealth of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and carbon storage, they remain woefully shortchanged with aid money for climate...
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Written by: Ming Chun Tang
In pre-COVID times, some half a million tourists would descend on the tiny Thai island of Koh Tao, one of Southeast Asia’s most pristine diving destinations.
But that all changed in April, when...
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Written by: Augusta Dwyer
Rising from the Atlantic swells, halfway between South Africa and Argentina, the wind-lashed archipelago of Tristan da Cunha is a place few have heard of, and even fewer have managed to visit.
Some 260 people call...
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Written by: Julie Mollins
Tackling climate change requires large-scale financial investments into adaptation and mitigation activities.
Known as “climate finance” under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the idea of mobilizing funds from countries in the global...
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Written by: Monica Evans
For the latest knowledge on water security in Africa, join the Global Landscapes Forum Accra, 29–30 October. Learn more here.
Makada, a farmer and mother-of-three in Ghana’s arid north, tends her collection of shea, cashew and...
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Written by: Julie Mollins
Making forest and landscape restoration a reality is an enormous challenge, but researchers are confident that international ecosystem restoration targets can be met if the design of subnational and national programs is...
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Written by: Julie Mollins
Indigenous federations and the Peruvian government are confronting obstacles caused by conflicts over land-tenure rights to implement effective climate mitigation programs, raising hopes that their innovative collaborative approach could be replicated in other regions,...
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Written by: Monica Evans
Although research demonstrates the benefits – for people and forests – of secure land and resource rights, these rights remain unrecognized for many of the world’s estimated 476 million Indigenous Peoples.
Not only do secure land...
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Written by: Augusta Dwyer
A new report from The Economist Intelligence Unit is making some dire predictions about the effects of climate change on the global economy. Its writers say that, by 2050, they “expect the global economy to be 3...