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Zofeen T. Ebrahim The Japanese method of mimicking nature, and growing forests in the heart of the city, is being picked up in Pakistan, India and elsewhere as a way to combat the rising heat that is strangling the residents of big cities As temperatures rise globally, and urbanisation pushes people

Biodiversity , Disasters , Environment , Forests , Sustainable Development / 04/22/2018

Open destruction in the Colombian Amazon after FARC’s exit

Esteban Montaño/Semana Sostenible In 2015, 24,142 hectares of forest were lost, which is almost 20 percent of Colombia’s total forested area in that year. The main driving forces of the deforestation are the expansion of the agricultural industry to make room for cattle, along with the commercia

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Forests , Sustainable Development / 04/13/2018

Salim Group, Pepsico and Nestle connected to illegal rainforest clearance in Borneo

Major international banks and brands connected to company controlled by notorious Indonesian business tycoon, knowingly clear-cutting tropical rainforests A new report exposes one of the largest cases in recent years of ongoing, illegal clearance of tropical rainforests in Borneo. Currently, app

Biodiversity , Environment , Forests , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 04/09/2018

Uncontacted tribes’ rights recognized in Peru’s historic land pledge

Peru is to create two Amazonian reserves for the protection of uncontacted tribes, covering more than 2.5 million hectares. At least seven distinct groups of uncontacted tribes, including Matsés Indians, are known to be living in the areas comprising the new Yavari Tapiche and Yavari Mirin reserves

Biodiversity , Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Forests , Resources , Sustainable Development / 04/01/2018

Draining peatlands leads to greenhouse laughing gas emissions, study shows

Julie Mollins Drained peatlands lead to the significant release of nitrous oxide — a greenhouse gas also known colloquially as laughing gas — leading to global warming, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. The authors of the study are urging increased conservation of fe

Biodiversity , Disasters , Environment , Featured , Forests , Human Rights , Migration , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/29/2018

Barren hills bring Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis into conflict

Pinaki Roy The impact of hundreds and thousands of Rohingya refugees have been devastating to the forest cover and water availability in Cox’s Bazar, fuelling resentments with the local population A bunch of tree roots on his head, Ramzan Ali was coming back towards his polythene and bamboo hut at

Biodiversity , Energy , Environment , Forests , Opinions / 03/11/2018

Rampal coal power plant, Bangladesh, an ethical perspective

Ikhtiar Mohammad While the entire world is moving towards searching for the alternatives, especially renewable energy; Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company is going to construct a coal fired power plant near the Sundarbans Niccolo Machiavelli, a medieval Italian thinker, endorsed the use of imm

Biodiversity , Climate , Environment , Forests , Sustainable Development / 03/03/2018

Restoring forests seen as vital to fighting climate change, extreme poverty

Hugh Biggar In the face of a changing climate and related mass migration and social instability, international experts are now viewing forests and tree rich environments as a key way of attacking these issues at the root. To do so, governments, businesses and international aid groups are turning to

Aid , Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Forests , Launches & Events , Resources , Sustainable Development / 03/01/2018

US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond issued for Indonesia for sustainable natural rubber plantation and fighting deforestation

The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF), a partnership between UN Environment, World Agroforestry Centre, ADM Capital and BNP Paribas, announced its inaugural transaction, a landmark US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond to help finance a sustainable natural rubber plantation on heavily degrad

Biodiversity , Disasters , Environment , Forests , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 01/30/2018

Humans need to learn to co-exist with wildfires. Here’s how we can do it.

Kendra R Chamberlain An assessment concept called the home ignition zone (HIZ) helps homeowners determine how vulnerable their home is to wildfire by looking at factors such as building materials, vegetation and debris In 1992, the city of Wenatchee, Washington, experienced a devastating wildfire th

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