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By Lean Alfred Santos, devex Nearly every year, huge parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore are choked by heavy smoke and dust particles — popularly known in the region as “haze” — caused by illegal forest burning and agricultural land clearing that pose serious environmental, health and even economic implications to these Southeast Asian countries. Haze has become […]

Originally published by Barbara Fraser on the Forests News Blog.  LIMA, Peru — Ricardo Vásquez Sánchez glances up at the dry thatched roof on the wood-framed platform that is his home in Peru’s sweltering Amazon lowlands. “If a spark lands there, it’ll go up in flames,” he says. It is a very real danger, especially […]

Earlier this month, the UN open working group on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) proposed a framework to replace the millennium development goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015. The SDGs are meant to guide global action on health, poverty, hunger, climate and other development challenges. The key component of the SDGs, as its name indicates, […]

Editor’s Note: Dr. Daju Resosudarmo of the Center for International Forestry Research will speak on “Forests in Sustainable Development” in the UN General Assembly on 4 February starting at 9 a.m. EST (4 p.m. GMT); her presentation will be shown live online at webtv.un.org. The Open Working Group’s website will post supporting materials after the meeting; […]

The United Nations’ Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will convene for its final meeting from 3-7 February 2014 in New York. The 30-member working group will focus on the role of biodiversity, forests and oceans in human development. CIFOR scientist Daju Pradnja Resosudarmo will make a presentation on forests in the next […]

By Peter Holmgren, Director General of CIFOR. My previous blog post provided some context to how forests may fit into the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework. The timing of this discussion is important, as the UN Open Working Group on SDGs will discuss forests in its final meeting on 3-7 February 2014. Following this meeting, […]