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Con motivo de las celebraciones por el Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente 2022 que se celebró este 5 de junio, desde la ciudad de Moyobamba se realizó la presentación de importantes proyectos que asegurarán el agua del futuro para las poblaciones amazónicas de dicha provincia y que forman parte de los avances para enfrentar el […]

Despite sanctions imposed following the February 2021 coup, Myanmar exported more than $190 million worth of timber, including to countries that have sanctions on the country’s state-controlled timber monopoly, according to a new report from Forest Trends.

Demand for wood from ipê trees in the Amazon Basin could lead to their extinction if better international trade regulations aren’t implemented soon, according to a new report from Forest Trends.

As a decade-long effort by the private sector to voluntarily eliminate deforestation from commodity supply chains stalls, the EU, UK, and US are all considering trade regulations. But policy makers and advocates have been debating the relative merits of trade barriers based on a “legality” or “zero-deforestation” standard: we believe this presents a false dichotomy. […]

As a decade-long effort by the private sector to voluntarily eliminate deforestation from commodity supply chains stalls, the EU, UK, and US are all considering legality-based trade regulations. Forest Trends’ Michael Wolosin offers analysis on why both are necessary, from different stakeholders.

Myanmar’s military junta exported more than $37 million worth of timber to nations with active sanctions on the country’s state-run timber monopoly, according to the environmental advocacy group Forest Trends.

Washington DC 7 March 2022 – Just over one year since the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, led a coup against the legitimately re-elected government, a new study finds that more than $190 million in imports of timber were reported from Myanmar in 2021, including to countries with sanctions, potentially exposing entities importing from […]

Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, backs start-up that seeks to offset carbon by facilitating the ability of companies to pay land-owners to keep their trees and forests alive.

The Director of Ecosystem Marketplace, Stephen Donofrio, is interviewed by SPGlobal, where he explains that there has been a dramatic surge in carbon credit sales and widening price spreads seen in 2021 are likely to continue in 2022.