Forest Trends in the News

KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Major household brands and palm-oil buyers Nestle and PepsiCo have backed a scheme that aims to invest $1 billion in forest conservation across Southeast Asia over 25 years.

Analyzing the import and export data of Vietnam’s wood and wood products, some experts believe that management agencies and the business community need to come up with feasible and effective measures, in order to detect and eliminate acts of commercial fraud and evading the origin of goods.

Tenemos que involucrarnos y entender que necesitamos restaurar amunas, esos sistemas incaicos y preincaicos de infiltración y recarga de acuíferos.

While the majority of projects that generate carbon credits focus solely on carbon abatement, an increasing number also achieve other environmental, economic, social and cultural co-benefits — which increase impact ROI for companies.

Mujeres protagonizan impactantes historias en relación con el agua y se podrán observar en recorrido virtual 360°.

Tres artistas, representantes de las tres regiones naturales del Perú, reflexionan sobre la importancia de cuidar el ecosistema que preserva el agua. La muestra se exhibe desde hoy vía Facebook.

As environmental leaders and change makers meet virtually for the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA)  in February 2021, the issue of deforestation has been central to their discussions.

A coalition of private and public sector partners have launched the Green Gigaton Challenge, which aims to mobilize funds to achieve its target of one gigaton of high-quality emissions reductions, per year, by 2025.

Forestry experts say Myanmar’s army may revert to logging if trade restrictions push it into doing more business with countries and companies lacking environmental standards

Campaigners call for major grocers to cut ties with controversial Brazilian meat firm JBS