“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”― Warren Buffett Recent years have witnessed the announcement and implementation of...
The international community has made major progress towards the global target on protected and conserved area coverage, but has fallen far short on its commitments on...
Forests are at the core of our efforts to restore our relationship with the natural world, the deputy UN chief said on Monday at the UN...
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic should lead to stronger action to safeguard the world’s forests, a senior UN official said on Friday, highlighting how these natural...
ASEAN / Southeast Asia is a region where most of the population depends on forest areas. There are 300 million people living in rural areas, with...
The Lao PDR and the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) have signed an agreement to provide up to $42 million between now and 2025...
The World Bank Board of Directors approved today the US$200 million First Amazonas Fiscal and Environmental Sustainability Programmatic DPF. The project will support fiscal reforms aimed...
“Nature bears long with those who wrong her. She is patient under abuse. But when abuse has gone too far, when the time of reckoning finally...
Forests host an estimated 80 percent of all terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects. The diverse species which inhabit vast forest landscapes play a key...
The Joint Research Centre of the Commission presented the 20th edition of its Annual Report on Forest Fires in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa,...
