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China could play a pivotal role in halting trade in trees crucial for West African ecosystems made more fragile by climate change.

Esta preparación es impulsada por el Proyecto Infraestructura Natural para la Seguridad Hídrica (INSH) con el respaldo del Ministerio de la Mujer y Poblaciones Vulnerables.

Jaguar Health, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:JAGX) chief of sustainability and ethnobotanist Steven King, Ph.D. was featured on Forest Trends’ Viewpoints, discussing the ancient and powerful medicinal knowledge of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the Amazon Rainforest, the importance of understanding, respecting and conserving this vast body of wisdom along with the rainforests, and the pioneering fair-trade […]

Global greenhouse gas emissions, even as they dropped last month to their lowest levels in more than a decade due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have fueled the ongoing climate crisis. Individuals and companies have long tried to reduce their emissions by what is known as carbon offsetting — the practice of compensating for emissions by […]

The coronavirus pandemic has created a global health and economic crisis that has affected families all over the world and nearly all industries, with aviation taking a particularly steep toll. Airlines may feel under pressure to save money at any cost, but hastily rewriting the fundamental structure of the industry’s flagship market-based program to address airline […]

Cattle production is the largest driver of tropical forest loss worldwide, with devastating impacts for climate, biodiversity and people.

Without forests as a buffer, activities like hunting, mining, and logging expose people to animals. These interactions lead to the spread of animal diseases to humans, known as “zoonotic diseases.” And viruses aren’t the only health impacts from forest loss.

Pese a la necesidad de este importante elemento, 3.4 millones (10,2% de la población) carecen de acceso a servicios de agua, y 8 millones de peruanos (25,5%) no cuentan con acceso a servicios de alcantarillado.

The global aviation regulator’s decision to toughen a new carbon market for airlines will cut supply of emission credits to offset greenhouse gases as the coronavirus slams ticket sales.

The coronavirus outbreak has sent the aviation industry reeling from one of its biggest economic shocks in recent years. But the virus is also putting the finger on one of the industry’s most difficult challenges: curbing the sector’s increasing greenhouse gas emissions from a baseline of 2019 and 2020.