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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 […]

The Jurisdictional Risk Assessment (JRA) is a tool to help end-users better understand the extent and rate of past deforestation and deforestation activities occurring within certain political jurisdictions. The purpose of this pilot study was to see if we could develop key performance indicators using historical data around illegal deforestation utilizing public data platforms such […]

Study shows that when policymakers take shortcuts, the likelihood for under-performance of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) schemes is greater.

In a time of economic, social and political changes in the EU-Mediterranean landscape, can the forestry and environmental sector be an opportunity and a tool of employment, knowledge, social inclusion and dialogue between peoples? If yes, how? Next 16th November 2016, at the European Parliament in Brussels, the conference “Jobs, Development, Social Inclusion and Climate […]

The Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research recognizes and honors outstanding achievement in the fields of gender and women’s and girls’ empowerment. This award will be presented to a young female researcher who is a citizen of a country in sub-Saharan Africa and is conducting research in sub-Saharan Africa, contributing to the evidence […]