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World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality must improve

The international community has made major progress towards the global target on protected and conserved area coverage, but has fallen far short on its...

‘Make or break moment’ for forests

Forests are at the core of our efforts to restore our relationship with the natural world, the deputy UN chief said on Monday at...

Forest restoration provides a path to pandemic recovery, greener future

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...

Local Economic Resilience in ASEAN Social Forestry

ASEAN / Southeast Asia is a region where most of the population depends on forest areas. There are 300 million people living in rural...

Lao PDR Signs Agreement to Protect Forests and Reduce Carbon Emissions

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...

World Bank approves First Amazon Fiscal and Environmental Sustainability Program

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...

Climate Change – call for a united front

“Nature bears long with those who wrong her. She is patient under abuse. But when abuse has gone too far, when the time of...

Virtual exhibition on forest biodiversity

Forests host an estimated 80 percent of all terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects. The diverse species which inhabit vast forest landscapes play...

Europe’s nature under threat as world suffers worst year on record for forest fires

The Joint Research Centre of the Commission presented the 20th edition of its Annual Report on Forest Fires in Europe, the Middle East and...

Exploring financing opportunities for forest landscape restoration

For centuries, world’s forests have been cleared and removed for agricultural or other land uses, often resulting in degraded lands found in almost every...

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Uzbekistan president unveils new initiatives for youth education and employment

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