In this edition: A report back from the Katoomba Group’s most recent gathering Missed our last Dispatch? Driving Value to Nature In this edition Introduction Katoomba XXVIII Proceedings Katoomba Group Statement to the Global Nature Positive Summit Video: A Global Network for Nature INTRODUCTION Greetings! I’ve just returned from back-to-back meetings of the Katoomba Group and […]
Quatro anos após início da febre do pau-de-balsa, comunidades indígenas e produtores avaliam impactos de atividade que se espalhou por Equador, Peru e Colômbia.
Four years on, producers reflect on the rush to cut and export balsa, a light wood used in wind turbine blades, which swept Ecuador and spread into Peru and Colombia. Featuring Forest Trends data.
We aren’t living in our grandparents’ climate. Between 2020 and 2022, total economic losses from droughts in those few years equaled almost two-thirds of total losses from the previous 20 years.[1] We can’t escape the headlines that we’ve broken another record for the hottest month in history. More and more intense floods are disrupting basic water […]
May 18th – 25th, 2024 | Bali, Indonesia As the world’s largest event on water, the World Water Forum provides a unique platform where the water community and key decision makers can collaborate and make long-term progress on global water challenges. The Forum brings together participants from all levels and areas, including politics, multilateral institutions, […]
The droughts, floods, fires, and landslides of recent years are tangible evidence of Peru’s vulnerability to water and climate risks. Natural infrastructure—such as forests, wetlands, grasslands, and shrublands—along with traditional practices to conserve water and soils, help reduce these risks. It also provides important co-benefits, like climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Over the last […]
Las sequías, inundaciones, incendios y huaycos de los últimos años demuestran la vulnerabilidad del Perú ante los riesgos hídricos y climáticos. La infraestructura natural–como bosques, bofedales, pastizales, matorrales y páramos– junto con las prácticas tradicionales de conservación del agua y los suelos, contribuyen a reducir estos riesgos. También proporcionan importantes beneficios colaterales, como la mitigación […]
In this edition: Some of the biggest news stories recently have revolved around water. Often too much water, in the form of catastrophic flooding, sometimes too little in the form of droughts. Here, we share a more encouraging story about water as we celebrate women’s rights. Missed our last Dispatch? Diversifying Beyond Carbon In this edition […]
Cesarina Quintana García de Paredes, an economist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and with master studies in agribusiness from the Universidad Nacional Agraria del Perú. Work experience in small business, foreign trade and international cooperation for almost 25 years working for rural development. Worked in the design, execution, management, monitoring and follow-up of […]
Dear Friends, I am very proud to share with you our 2023 Impact Report. In it, you can read about our achievements this past year, stories of change, progress, and hope for the future. Forest Trends was founded with the mission of putting an economic engine behind nature conservation – the idea being that our […]