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By Frank Hajek, Executive Director of Nature Services Peru In June I attended the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case meeting in London. Many good ideas were shared, networks strengthened and many new contacts for our company Nature Services Peru made. But overall, the meeting left me worried. Worried about the growing disconnect between financiers […]

Side event: Toward a roadmap for sustainable landscapes investments at scale — Inputs from forestry science The capital is ready. The project ideas are there. It’s time to scale up. Don’t miss out on this side event at FAO World Forestry Congress in Durban: On the 9th of September, from 12:45 until 14:15 in the 11CDE […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Tim Trench In Spanish the word for politics and policy is the same – ‘política’ – reminding us that policy is always political. Although in Spanish the adjective ‘pública’ can be added to distinguish the senses that English tries to maintain, it can serve us well to focus […]

By Ivo Mulder, REDD+ Economics Advisor, UNEP. A growing number of producers, traders and retailers have over the past few years made zero-deforestation pledges aiming to decouple production of palm oil, soy, beef and other commodities from deforestation impacts. The financial sector, however, has largely remained absent even though it is an important stakeholder as […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Laura Dattaro. Forget about finding the needle in the haystack. An even more complicated task might be counting all the hay on the farm. A new study documents the results of just such a search, undertaken across the globe, to count the number of tree species found in […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News By Barbara Fraser Farming and ranching remain the main drivers of deforestation in Brazil, a new study from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has found. But any new government policy to combat the problem may be undermined by lack of coordination and communication, says one of the […]