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An infestation of “boring beetles” means the bamboo in almost every shelter in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar – home to around 240,000 families – needs to be replaced. With just over four months to go until the beginning of the next monsoon season, the race is on to provide fami

Biodiversity , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Launches & Events , Sustainable Development / 12/19/2018

Brazil launches operation to save surviving members of uncontacted tribe

Brazilian authorities have completed a rare ground operation to protect an uncontacted tribe from violent ranchers in a region of the Amazon with the highest rate of illegal deforestation in the country. But there are growing fears that unless the remaining steps in the land protection process fo

Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 12/18/2018

Conservationists clash over coral reefs

Globally, coral restoration has expanded over the past 15 years. Researchers at the University of California have counted more than 150 operations transplanting nursery-raised corals to degraded reefs in the Caribbean, for example.

Aid , Biodiversity , Climate , Energy , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Migration , Resources , SDGs , Soil , Sustainable Development , Water / 12/16/2018

Weak workplan wounds Paris Agreement

Joydeep Gupta, Soumya Sarkar, Chris Davy, Fermin Koop, Yao Zhe, Tom Baxter The Paris Agreement, itself a compromise that is not enough to combat climate change, was further weakened in the details as the work programme was signed off in the annual UN climate summit A Paris Agreement Work Progr

Aid , Biodiversity , Disasters , Environment , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 12/14/2018

Afghanistan scales up ecosystem-based solutions to help build disaster resilience

Afghanistan is one of the frontline countries taking forward affordable ecosystem-based solutions to reducing disaster risk.

Aid , Biodiversity , Cities , Climate , Energy , Environment , Forests , Resources , Sustainable Development / 12/08/2018

World Bank Group Announces $200 billion over Five Years for Climate Action

By ramping up direct adaptation finance to reach around $50 billion over FY 21-25, the World Bank will, for the first time, give this equal emphasis alongside investments that reduce emissions.

Biodiversity , Climate , Environment , Featured , Forests , Launches & Events , Sustainable Development , Water / 11/24/2018

IUCN lists 15 new sites as world’s best protected areas

Green listed sites are certified as being effectively managed and fairly governed, with a positive impact on people and nature.

Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Food , Forests , Resources , Sustainable Development / 11/18/2018

Greenpeace activists arrested on ship loaded with palm oil heading to Europe

Six Greenpeace activists have been arrested by the captain of a giant tanker, while peacefully boarding the 185-metre long cargo loaded with palm oil products from Wilmar International, the largest and dirtiest palm oil trader in the world. The Stolt Tenacity, carrying dirty palm oil from Indonesia

Biodiversity , Environment , Featured , Food , Forests , Sustainable Development / 10/25/2018

Making forests the focus of global bioeconomies

Gabrielle Lipton On 11 October, the European Commission launched a new strategy to create a comprehensive bioeconomy – a ‘biosociety’ – and ultimately a carbon-neutral future. The strategy centers on waste reduction, ecosystem protection and a 100-million-euro fund to incentivize private

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