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Moritz Vohrer, Technical Director of the Gold Standard Foundation discusses the certification of carbon offsets – and why business is buying into it. Want to learn more about certification success stories? ‘Light it up, grandmother’ – How a South African Lady perfected resource-efficient cooking Biogas for rural households – take a look at Vietnam’s first […]

Secure land rights are essential for improving the livelihoods of the poor and, more broadly, for economic development. In many emerging economies however, land remains a largely unprotected asset, one that lacks documented tenure and property rights. By Iris Krebber, Senior Land Policy Lead, DFID and Chair, Global Donor Group on Land, originally published on […]

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, […]

As climate variability increases, regions are becoming more vulnerable to its negative impacts. The agricultural sector will be hit hardest by climate change, not only suffering from direct influences but also from multiplier effects. In order to adapt, farmers need to know how weather will change in their area – requiring data that goes beyond […]