Over 100 nations identify forest conservation and restoration as part of their strategy to fight climate change, something Forest Trends’ founding President and CEO Michael Jenkins considers a major milestone. And as 2016 winds down, Jenkins reflects on the 17 year history of Forest Trends, the progress the organization has made and the work that it still intends to do.
The indigenous people within the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve live along the border between Brazil and Peru, and they also act as a buffer between uncontacted people of the Amazon and the outside world. At climate talks in Marrakesh, they reiterated their openness to forest carbon projects that support their way of life – but only if that support is assured.
Watershed investment programs can reduce the costs of managing water while delivering community benefits but they’re underused because mobilizing support is difficult and funding can be hard to come by. The World Resources Institute is attempting to ease the burden with a new one-stop resource that offers detailed guidance on what it takes to create a successful watershed investment program.
As degraded watersheds drag California into its sixth year of drought, a new law makes forests, farms, and fields eligible for infrastructure funding – and the state is hardly alone, according to new research by Ecosystem Marketplace, which shows a dramatic surge in payments for watershed services across the United States and around the world.
The Paris Agreement (PA) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), adopted on December 12, 2015, marked an important milestone in international climate negotiations and the role of forests and land use. The Paris Agreement is a turning point to formally encourage the adoption of measures with “results-based payments” that contribute to […]
11 October 2016 | LIMA, PERU | Latin America’s water utilities, like others around the world, find themselves in an increasingly precarious position as climate change compounds ongoing challenges like water scarcity, deteriorating water quality, and inadequate infrastructure.
Hace un cuarto de siglo, el pueblo Asháninka recuperó una parte de su territorio ancestral en la selva tropical del Amazonas y emprendieron en un viaje hacia la autonomía y el desarrollo sostenible – iniciándose en el proceso de la creación de un protocolo de servicios de los ecosistemas indígena que podría tener repercusiones para […]
A quarter-century ago, the Asháninka people reclaimed a portion of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest and embarked on a journey toward self-rule and sustainable development – sparking in the process the creation of an indigenous ecosystem services protocol that could have repercussions for indigenous people across the Amazon.
Deforestation in the Amazon has a ripple effect through the region disrupting ecosystem services and undermining food, water and energy security. The Global Canopy Programme says coherency among policy-making can help, and in a new policy brief outlines how some Amazon countries would benefit from following the integrated approaches of the water-energy-food nexus.
A technology revolution is opening the way for countries to combat escalating environmental problems – from debilitating drought to devastating floods – as the impact of climate change threatens food supplies, economies, and the very existence of coastal cities and communities. Top experts from around the world are gathering in Bellagio, Italy from September 5 to […]