Green Economy

Crowdsourcing for Clean Energy The WWF Forest team is unleashing the power of the crowd to develop new, self-sustaining ways of generating funding for alternative energy. WWF is running a crowdsourcing challenge through November 7, 2017 to bring together the best and brightest minds to illuminate new ways of funding this important work. Join us! […]

Crowdsourcing for Clean Energy The WWF Forest team is unleashing the power of the crowd to develop new, self-sustaining ways of generating funding for alternative energy. WWF is running a crowdsourcing challenge through November 7, 2017 to bring together the best and brightest minds to illuminate new ways of funding this important work. Join us! […]

By Joe Kiesecker, lead scientist for land conservation, The Nature Conservancy Following the Paris Agreement, 140 nations have volunteered plans to reduce their carbon emissions—most of which include a greater reliance on renewable energy sources. Subsequently, global investment in and power generation from renewables set new records in 2016 while the cost of generation from […]

By Douglas McGuire, Coordinator of the Forest and Landscapes Restoration Mechanism, FAO Ravaged landscapes, parched riverbeds and destitute communities. These are maybe not the first images that come to mind when you think about forests. But every year forests are being degraded and lost by an area about the size of Belgium. In fact, the […]

“This is the perfect land—flat, fertile—all we need to do is drain it,” a farmer thinks upon approaching a peat forest. Draining the area turns waterlogged, carbon-rich soil into arable land, but in the process releases tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Only 15% of peatlands worldwide have been drained, but this alone is responsible […]

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 […]