forests

Ghana Begins Receiving Payments for Reducing Carbon Emissions in Forest Landscapes

Ghana has become the second country in Africa after Mozambique to receive payments from a World Bank trust fund for…

4 months ago

Successful Pilot Shows How Artificial Intelligence Can Fight Wildfires

A dramatic rise in the frequency and severity of wildfires is undermining efforts to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in…

4 months ago

Forests and Renewable Energy: Towards Cleaner Planet

Population growth and energy demand will continue to rise year after year, necessitating more land and energy resources. Despite the…

5 months ago

Commitments for forests are nowhere near what is needed to reach Paris Agreement ambition

The world is not on track to achieve forest goals of ending and reversing deforestation by 2030, critical for a…

7 months ago

Protecting forests on the front line of the climate-change battle

By  SANDRINE CEURSTEMONT Forests help counter global warming, but they are also threatened by it. Many tree species struggled this past…

7 months ago

Forests for Climate: Scaling up Forest Conservation to Reach Net Zero

The role of forests in the global carbon cycle is fundamental. Unless tropical deforestation is halted, there can be no…

8 months ago

China will aim to plant and conserve 70 billion trees by 2030

Xie Zhenhua, China’s Special Envoy for Climate Change announced the country’s active response to the World Economic Forum’s 1t.org initiative,…

1 year ago

Champion of women’s right to manage land and forests wins top environment prize

A veteran Cameroonian activist working to preserve her country’s forests, and improve the lives of people who depend on them,…

1 year ago

Greenpeace Africa reacts to scientific report on wildfires projecting an infernal 21st century

A UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report projects a 50 per cent global increase in wildfires by 2100. Greenpeace Africa is…

1 year ago

World Heritage forests releasing more carbon than they absorb

Forests in at least ten World Heritage sites have become net sources of carbon, due to pressure from human activity…

2 years ago