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Here you can find various news related to tropical forests - newly published papers, conferences, main political decisions etc.
We cannot cover all news related to tropical forests. Therefore, this section focuses on conferences of regional/global relevance, publications directly associated with people or organisations that are part of the Tropical Forest Arena as well as news of particular relevance for tropical forests.
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Jun 5, 2024
Beyond offsets: people and planet-centred responses to the climate and biodiversity crisis
A report by the Rainforest Foundation UK, FERN and the Forest Peoples Programme calls for a shift away from only market-based approaches...
Jun 3, 2024
Data and information in a political forest: The case of REDD+
A newly published paper by Brockhaus et al. (with Arild Angelsen, Steering Committee member of the Tropical Forest Arena as co-author)...
May 24, 2024
The broken links of mineral supply chain policies
The growing demand for minerals for technologies used in the green transition drives expansive mining for nickel, cobalt, manganese,...
May 22, 2024
IUFRO report: International Forest Governance – a critical review of trends, drawbacks, and new approaches
There is a multitude of values, relations to, and benefits provided to people by trees and forests. We can talk about intrinsic,...
May 10, 2024
Nature conservation works and we need more of it!
The research article titled “The positive impact of conservation action” published by Langhammer et al. (2024) in Science conducted a...
May 10, 2024
Evaluation of Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative Support to Civil Society
Norad published a new report conducted by the Evaluation Department at Norad, in collaboration with CMI and Vista Analyse. The report...
May 10, 2024
Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050
A recent paper by Pereira et al. (2024) published in Science, assessed trends in biodiversity and ecosystem services from historical...
Mar 20, 2024
“Sky islands” - Proposal of new Ecoregion “South East Africa Montane Archipelago” (SEAMA)
Building on recent biological surveys of ancient inselbergs in southern Malawi and northern Mozambique, which have led to the discovery...
Mar 14, 2024
After decade-long decline deforestation in Indonesia on the rise again
After decade-long declining trend deforestation in Indonesia on the rise again Indonesia is the world’s biggest producer for palm oil....
Mar 8, 2024
Supply chain divergence challenges Brussels Effect
Human rights violations and environmental harms, like loss of tropical forests, are closely linked to agricultural trade. The role of...
Mar 1, 2024
New mapping tool: PalmWatch
Inclusive Development International and UChicago Data Science Institute have launched PalmWatch, a new mapping tool that enables linking...
Mar 1, 2024
Planting trees to slow climate change not as straightforward as thought
A study by Weber et al. (2024) recently published in Science diminishes hopes to simply offset excessive emissions by planting more...
Feb 21, 2024
Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system
The recently (February 2024) published article by Flores et al. in Nature discusses potential critical transitions in the Amazon forest...
Feb 14, 2024
Land sparing outperforms land sharing for Amazonian bird communities regardless of surrounding landscape context
A recently published paper by Birch et al. (2024) in the Journal of Applied Ecology with Torbjørn Haugaasen (member of the TFA Steering...
Feb 14, 2024
Comparative study of carbon rights in the context of jurisdictional REDD+: Case studies from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean
REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) has been a topic here before, as e.g. in the recent summarising...
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