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The earth is crispy around here. Crunch, crunch, crunch—my every footstep made a crackling sound like a rustling bag of potato chips. Underneath the crunchy stuff was something almost fluffy. “It is the dried peat,” Nizar told me. He’s been working in this area for decades, acrobatically transitioning between the local community, government and private […]

By Aida Greenbury and Martijn Wilder, Chairs of the Private Sector Roundtable of the Asia Pacific Rainforest Partnership There is now a global scientific consensus that the world is in a race against time to halt catastrophic and irreversible climate change. The incoming UN secretary general has said it’s the biggest crisis facing humanity and […]

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A conversation with Gerald Schmilewski, President of the International Peatland Society (IPS), during the Global Landscapes Forum thematic event Peatlands Matter in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 18, 2017.

Press release For immediate release This year’s impact investment report focuses on the importance of people working together to create positive change. Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 6 April 2017 – The latest impact investment report from leading impact asset manager Finance in Motion provides a range of notable examples about how the company and its […]

Originally posted at The Global Canopy Program A recently announced USD 400 million fund could help leverage some of the money needed address deforestation. While urgently needed, such private sector initiatives should not replace other, more established ways of protecting the forest. Norway has pledged to put USD 100 million into a new fund that […]