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GFW User Profile: Sébastien Desbureaux
For this installment of GFW User Profiles, we spoke with Sébastien Desbureaux, PhD student at Université d’Auvergne. What organization do you work with and what do you do? I am a PhD student at...
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StoryMap: Meet the Yudja, Brazil’s Forest Guardians
By Sarah Parsons This article originally appeared on WRI Insights. The Yudja are one of many indigenous groups who call Brazil’s Amazon rainforest home. For decades, they’ve sustainably managed their...
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3 Ways Obama Could Help Fight Indonesia’s Massive Fires
By Nigel Sizer, Fred Stolle and Tjokorda Nirarta “Koni” Samadhi This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post and Grist As President Obama and Indonesian President Joko Widodo meet today,...
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Increasing Forest Transparency through the Open Government Partnership
By Jessica Webb This article originally appeared on WRI Insights How can open government accelerate implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda? That’s the...
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4 Reasons to Be Hopeful About Forests at COP 21
By Nigel Sizer and James Anderson World leaders will meet in Paris next week and hopefully forge a historic agreement to fight climate change. We will need every tool at our disposal, including...
View ArticleINSIDER: What’s Your Benchmark? Using the GFW Climate Platform to Identify...
By Nancy Harris More than ever, governments, companies and civil society organizations are committing to ambitious goals to protect the world’s remaining forests and combat emissions from...
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New Climate Commitments on Forests and Land Will Reduce Emissions by 2%, but...
By Fred Stolle, Taryn Fransen, Ranping Song, Hana Biru, James Anderson, Octavia Payne As countries refine their national commitments (called INDCs) presented at the climate negotiations under way in...
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What Indonesia Doesn’t Know About Peatlands Could Undermine its Climate Goals
By Hidayah Hamzah and Reidinar Juliane Tersedia dalam Bahasa sini. Peat swamp forests of the Katingan Peatland Reserve in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by James Anderson/WRI (Flickr). Peat...
View ArticleVIDEO: Matt Hansen and Andrew Steer Discuss the Future of Forests
Watch Dr. Matt Hansen, Professor at the University of Maryland, and Dr. Andrew Steer, President and CEO of World Resources Institute, discuss the future of forests. Data in this video is provided...
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Linking products to places: the initiatives working to end deforestation
By Crystal Davis Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, Brazil. Photo by Neil Palmer/CIAT for Center for International Forestry Research...
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Brazil and Indonesia Struggling to Reduce Deforestation
By Mikaela Weisse and Rachael Petersen New satellite-based data highlight the challenges of reducing forest loss in two of the world’s largest forest-rich countries. Brazil and Indonesia, which have...
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PARTNER POST: The Amazon Rots Away in New Hydroelectric Power Plant Reservoir
By Piero Locatelli The Teles Pires power plant violated its environmental plan and flooded the dam reservoir without clearing vegetation. The resulting decomposition will release large amounts of...
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Brazilian Government Announces 29 Percent Rise in Deforestation in 2016
By Rachel Biderman and Ruth Nogueron An aerial shot shows the contrast between the forest and agricultural landscapes near Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. Photo by Kate Evans/CIFOR. Disponível em Português...
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Global Tree Cover Loss Rose 51 Percent in 2016
By Mikaela Weisse and Liz Goldman Tersedia dalam Bahasa Indonesia di sini. Disponible en español aquí. Disponible en portugués aquí. Global tree cover loss reached a record 29.7 million hectares (73.4...
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2017 Was the Second-Worst Year on Record for Tropical Tree Cover Loss
By Mikaela Weisse and Liz Goldman Tersedia dalam Bahasa Indonesia di sini. Disponible en portugués aquí.Disponible en español aquí. Disponible en Français ici. Last year was the second-worst on record...
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El 2017 fue el segundo peor año en relación a la pérdida de cobertura arbórea...
Por Mikaela Weisse y Liz Goldman Tersedia dalam Bahasa Indonesia di sini. Available in English here. Disponible en portugués aquí. Disponible en Français ici. El año pasado fue el segundo peor año en...
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2017 Adalah Tahun Terburuk Kedua dalam Catatan Kehilangan Tutupan Pohon di...
Oleh Mikaela Weisse dan Liz Goldman Available in English here. Disponible en portugués aquí.Disponible en español aquí. Disponible en Français ici. Menurut data baru dari University of Maryland yang...
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2017 a été la deuxième pire année pour la couverture arborée tropicale
Par Mikaela Weisse et Liz Goldman Tersedia dalam Bahasa Indonesia di sini. Available in English here. Disponible en español aquí. Disponible en portugués aquí. Selon de nouvelles données de...
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2017 foi o segundo pior ano já registrado de perda de cobertura florestal...
De Mikaela Weisse e Liz Goldman Tersedia dalam Bahasa Indonesia di sini. Available in English here. Disponible en español aquí. Disponible en Français ici. Ano passado foi o segundo pior ano recorde de...
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When a Tree Falls, Is It Deforestation?
Nancy Harris, Elizabeth Dow Goldman, Mikaela Weisse and Alyssa Barrett The narrative is not a new one: The world is losing tree cover at an alarming rate, and the effects on biodiversity, the climate...
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