Climate change

German State Secretary Jocean Flasbarth offers a keynote speech at the 1st Bonn Challenge High-Level Roundtable Meeting in Palembang, Indonesia. He spoke of the importance of the region and the representation of so many from Asia and the world at the meeting. The Bonn Challenge initiative of the German Government to restore degraded lands and […]

By Tim Christophersen, originally posted at the UN-REDD Programme The lack of knowledge on peatlands must be addressed urgently. An often neglected ecosystem, and significant contributor to climate change, is peat. When it burns or dries up huge amounts of CO2 are released. The UK Met Office says carbon dioxide levels have seen a surge in recent months as […]

Originally posted at the UN-REDD Programme Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo announced the other week a landmark moratorium banning all peat-damaging activities. At the Climate COP in Marrakech a new UN Environment-led global initiative, the Global Peatlands Initiative, was launched. Why that sudden focus on protecting peatlands, an ecosystem so far not on the radar of […]

March 22 is the United Nations’ (UN) World Water Day. Anyone who has walked outside on a sunny day knows that forests and trees matter for temperature, humidity and wind speed. Planting trees speaks to concerns about climate change, but the directly important aspects of the tree-climate relationships have so far been overlooked in climate […]

March 21 is the United Nations’ (UN) International Day of Forests, and while we’re already attending Cool Insights for a Hot World Virtual Symposium and taking the ‘Think you know forests?’ quiz on Forests News to celebrate, we also have a round-up of some of our best content on this year’s theme: Forests and Energy. […]

By Pablo Pacheco, originally posted on Forests News Brazil – The successful Brazilian experience in slowing down deforestation in the Amazon has captured a lot of attention in the global arena, but serious concerns linger about its possible resurgence. While it is important to strengthen public and private arrangements to reach zero deforestation, or at […]