https://news.mongabay.com/list/avoided-deforestation/ Environmental science and conservation news Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:27:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/05/16160320/cropped-mongabay_icon-32x32.png https://news.mongabay.com/list/avoided-deforestation/ 32 32 https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/amazon-deforestation-declines-as-brazil-reduces-forest-loss-nationwide/ https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/amazon-deforestation-declines-as-brazil-reduces-forest-loss-nationwide/#respond 12 Jun 2026 10:13:12 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?post_type=short-article&p=321056 Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/amazon-deforestation-declines-as-brazil-reduces-forest-loss-nationwide/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/its-time-to-engage-mennonite-communities-to-reduce-deforestation-in-latin-america-analysis/ https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/its-time-to-engage-mennonite-communities-to-reduce-deforestation-in-latin-america-analysis/#respond 03 Jun 2026 21:16:10 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=320555 - In part this is due to the colonies’ closed nature but also because their habit of buying in frontier regions is effectively banned by law in Brazil — a nation which dominates the Amazon policy sphere —  but a new analysis posits that engagement with these groups is necessary and potentially fruitful.
- “Mennonite pioneers have transformed the South American forest frontier with remarkable, and unfortunate, efficiency. The question now is whether the legal, regulatory, and civil society frameworks of the countries where they now reside can engage them as partners in a different kind of transformation,” the author argues.
- This article is an analysis. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/its-time-to-engage-mennonite-communities-to-reduce-deforestation-in-latin-america-analysis/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/in-brazil-a-project-paying-farmers-for-forests-is-looking-to-scale-up/ https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/in-brazil-a-project-paying-farmers-for-forests-is-looking-to-scale-up/#respond 01 Jun 2026 11:01:21 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=320294 - The program’s pilot phase has avoided over 30,000 hectares (around 74,130 acres) of legal deforestation in the states of Mato Grosso, Pará and Maranhão. Across Brazil, millions of hectares of forest on private land are at risk of being legally cleared.
- The Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) is now looking to scale up the project and is evaluating mechanisms that could fund the payments without relying on donations.
- One solution could be combining the sale of carbon credits, price premiums for commodities and access to cheaper credit to provide long-term incentives for landowners to conserve these forested areas.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/in-brazil-a-project-paying-farmers-for-forests-is-looking-to-scale-up/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/imf-lending-programs-causing-deforestation-should-be-rethought-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/imf-lending-programs-causing-deforestation-should-be-rethought-commentary/#respond 29 May 2026 15:34:52 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=320324 - The co-authors reveal countries experience 9.2% higher annual tree cover loss during years in which they are under such programs, which is an unnecessary cost; and thus, the IMF should consider how to fix this issue while it’s currently reviewing the design of its lending programs, they argue.
- As the IMF rethinks its lending approach, these groundbreaking new findings underscore the need to deepen understanding of the impacts of forest and biodiversity loss on economic systems, the co-authors write.
- This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/imf-lending-programs-causing-deforestation-should-be-rethought-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/for-honduran-coffee-growers-eudr-compliance-means-changing-old-habits/ https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/for-honduran-coffee-growers-eudr-compliance-means-changing-old-habits/#respond 29 May 2026 12:22:15 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=320278 - For many farmers, the urgency of complying has led to the modernization of farming practices, providing a competitiveness boost to a supply chain historically based on informality.
- Digitalization could help to halt Honduras’s rural exodus and make coffee farming attractive to younger generations, but challenges remain around accessibility, managing digital tools, and data ownership.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/for-honduran-coffee-growers-eudr-compliance-means-changing-old-habits/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/banks-must-step-in-before-the-amazon-soy-moratorium-collapses-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/banks-must-step-in-before-the-amazon-soy-moratorium-collapses-commentary/#respond 18 Feb 2026 16:39:27 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=314432 - Right now, a successful agreement called the Amazon Soy Moratorium, which has helped protect millions of hectares of forest by stopping major traders from buying soy grown on Amazon land deforested after 2008, is on the brink of collapse due to industry pressure — but banks can play a role in ensuring these traders stay in the pact and don’t let it unravel.
- “Financial institutions should make continued access to capital conditional on compliance with the moratorium’s core principles: no deforestation after 2008, full traceability, and zero tolerance for forest destruction in the Amazon biome,” a new op-ed argues.
- This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/banks-must-step-in-before-the-amazon-soy-moratorium-collapses-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/cameroon-cookstove-project-looks-to-slow-forest-loss/ https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/cameroon-cookstove-project-looks-to-slow-forest-loss/#respond 30 Jan 2026 09:13:41 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=313523 - Mongabay visited one of the villages where CIFOR’s project is taking place to talk to people who are involved in it.
- Long-term success rates for similar projects in Africa have often been low.
- CIFOR wants to break that trend by encouraging people to adopt the new cookstoves and keep using them.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/cameroon-cookstove-project-looks-to-slow-forest-loss/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/congo-basin-nations-roll-out-community-payments-for-forest-care/ https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/congo-basin-nations-roll-out-community-payments-for-forest-care/#respond 20 Nov 2025 21:10:17 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?post_type=short-article&p=309927 Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/congo-basin-nations-roll-out-community-payments-for-forest-care/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/cop30-tropical-forest-fund-may-drive-debt-and-deforestation-groups-warn/ https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/cop30-tropical-forest-fund-may-drive-debt-and-deforestation-groups-warn/#respond 07 Nov 2025 11:57:20 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?post_type=short-article&p=309042 Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/cop30-tropical-forest-fund-may-drive-debt-and-deforestation-groups-warn/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/setting-the-record-straight-on-jurisdictional-redd-the-case-of-brazil/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/setting-the-record-straight-on-jurisdictional-redd-the-case-of-brazil/#respond 21 Sep 2025 13:17:01 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=306300 - Emission reductions are measured at the jurisdictional level—not tied to individual properties or collective territories—and generate carbon credits based on verified drops in deforestation and degradation.
- Participation is voluntary and protected by safeguards and law, ensuring communities, farmers, and local actors can opt in or out while retaining land and resource rights. JREDD+ enables access to climate finance from private and public sources, with benefits distributed to rural sectors and credits issued only after independent verification.
- The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/setting-the-record-straight-on-jurisdictional-redd-the-case-of-brazil/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-formula-that-reduced-deforestation-in-brazil-in-the-21st-century/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-formula-that-reduced-deforestation-in-brazil-in-the-21st-century/#respond 19 Sep 2025 09:26:59 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=306234 - The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm) is considered one of Lula da Silva’s major wins during his first two terms as president. Although the initiative did not eliminate deforestation, its policies succeeded in changing human behavior and business models on the forest frontier.
- In 2019, president Jair Bolsonaro defunded the programme’s law-and-order components and dissolved the PPCDAm, while running limited activities to combat deforestation.
- Once Lula de Silva got re-elected in 2023, he revived the program, which now focuses less on command-and-control measures like deforestation fines and land-use planning, and more on promoting sustainable livelihoods. 
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-formula-that-reduced-deforestation-in-brazil-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-carbon-market-paradox-steve-zwick-on-why-financing-forests-is-harder-than-it-looks/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-carbon-market-paradox-steve-zwick-on-why-financing-forests-is-harder-than-it-looks/#respond 15 Sep 2025 03:02:01 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=305870 - He emphasizes that carbon markets are built on probabilities, not certainties, and criticizes both media and advocacy for flattening nuance into oversimplified verdicts. For him, methods evolve through revision, guardrails, and conservative accounting, with avoidance of deforestation often delivering the greatest climate impact.
- Zwick frames forest carbon as payment for services protecting a global commons, not charity, and insists that best practice must be community-led. He warns that skewed scrutiny and polarized narratives risk sidelining a tool that, while imperfect, can mobilize resources quickly until deeper emissions cuts take hold.
- Zwick was interview by Mongabay Founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler in September 2025.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-carbon-market-paradox-steve-zwick-on-why-financing-forests-is-harder-than-it-looks/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/carbon-offset-markets-are-unfair-to-indigenous-communities-in-borneo-beyond-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/carbon-offset-markets-are-unfair-to-indigenous-communities-in-borneo-beyond-commentary/#respond 29 Aug 2025 19:14:30 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=305206 - In tropical forest regions like Malaysian Borneo, only 1% of climate finance reaches Indigenous communities, despite the latter’s proven role in preventing deforestation: in many cases these communities’ stewardship is what makes carbon offset programs possible.
- “The communities who have fought tooth and nail to keep these forests standing are not being rewarded with handsome sums for their efforts. The carbon credits (and the cash) flow primarily to the license holders, not to the Indigenous people who protect these lands,” a new op-ed states.
- This post is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/carbon-offset-markets-are-unfair-to-indigenous-communities-in-borneo-beyond-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazilian-court-restores-amazon-soy-moratorium-for-now/ https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazilian-court-restores-amazon-soy-moratorium-for-now/#respond 28 Aug 2025 12:33:35 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?post_type=short-article&p=305065 Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazilian-court-restores-amazon-soy-moratorium-for-now/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/reversing-deforestation-relies-on-resource-ownership-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/reversing-deforestation-relies-on-resource-ownership-commentary/#respond 05 Aug 2025 18:44:18 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=303773 - “From Himalayan foothills to reforested cattle ranches in Central America, individuals and communities that own tree-covered land are being paid to safeguard forest ecosystem services. But even where conservation payments are not on the table, property rights, alone, make environmental improvement more rewarding for those individuals and communities,” they write.
- This post is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/reversing-deforestation-relies-on-resource-ownership-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/from-apps-to-indigenous-guardians-ways-we-can-save-rainforests/ https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/from-apps-to-indigenous-guardians-ways-we-can-save-rainforests/#respond 08 Jul 2025 09:18:12 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?post_type=short-article&p=302033 Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/from-apps-to-indigenous-guardians-ways-we-can-save-rainforests/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/its-time-to-pay-the-true-value-of-tropical-forest-conservation-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/its-time-to-pay-the-true-value-of-tropical-forest-conservation-commentary/#respond 12 Jun 2025 22:31:22 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=300723 - The TFFF would pay a fixed price per hectare of tropical forest conserved or restored, providing positive incentives aligned with national fiscal planning via a funding model that blends public investment and private market borrowing.
- “The time to act boldly for our forests is now. The TFFF is not only possible — it is essential. We are calling on the world to join us,” they write.
- This post is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/its-time-to-pay-the-true-value-of-tropical-forest-conservation-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/06/every-day-i-have-to-think-about-mining-carlos-zorrilla-on-30-years-of-fighting-for-intag-valley/ https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/06/every-day-i-have-to-think-about-mining-carlos-zorrilla-on-30-years-of-fighting-for-intag-valley/#respond 10 Jun 2025 20:05:20 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?post_type=podcasts&p=300418 Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/06/every-day-i-have-to-think-about-mining-carlos-zorrilla-on-30-years-of-fighting-for-intag-valley/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/the-tropical-forest-forever-facility-needs-more-local-and-indigenous-focus-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/the-tropical-forest-forever-facility-needs-more-local-and-indigenous-focus-commentary/#respond 03 Jun 2025 13:33:45 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=300115 - The fund’s launch is expected to be a major focal point of the COP30 climate summit in November, and the TFFF secretariat is currently negotiating many of its fine details, which are expected to be released at the end of June. A new briefing prepared by 40+ environmental, human rights and Indigenous organizations lays out their concerns about the TFFF’s equity issues, and describes how they should be tackled.
- “About 20% of the funds are expected to be allocated to Indigenous and local communities. This is a step in the right direction, but for the TFFF’s funding to reach its intended recipients, it must go directly to them, to the largest extent possible, rather than as in the current proposal, with payments being in the hands of national governments,” a new op-ed argues.
- This post is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/the-tropical-forest-forever-facility-needs-more-local-and-indigenous-focus-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/05/eu-anti-deforestation-law-could-overlook-big-violators-ngo-warns/ https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/05/eu-anti-deforestation-law-could-overlook-big-violators-ngo-warns/#respond 23 May 2025 07:11:44 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?post_type=short-article&p=299538 Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/05/eu-anti-deforestation-law-could-overlook-big-violators-ngo-warns/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/paying-to-prevent-deforestation-is-positive-not-nothing-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/paying-to-prevent-deforestation-is-positive-not-nothing-commentary/#respond 24 Apr 2025 23:01:41 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=298160 - There is something inherently uncomfortable about paying someone to do ‘nothing’ like not cut down their rainforest, but in reality, the value of these places’ ecosystem services and climate regulation is not much different from dividends shareholders earn by owning stocks.
- “By compensating landholders for the services their forests provide, we recognize their true value and offer a pragmatic response to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change,” the author argues.
- This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/paying-to-prevent-deforestation-is-positive-not-nothing-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/agroforestry-can-reduce-deforestation-but-supportive-policies-matter-study-finds/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/agroforestry-can-reduce-deforestation-but-supportive-policies-matter-study-finds/#respond 21 Apr 2025 08:00:25 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=297826 - The study found agroforestry has helped reduce deforestation across Southeast Asia by an estimated 250,319 hectares (618,552 acres) per year between 2015 and 2023, lowering emissions and underscoring its potential as a natural climate solution.
- However, the findings also indicate agroforestry worsened deforestation in many parts of the region, highlighting a nuanced bigger picture that experts say must be heeded.
- Local social, economic and ecological factors are pivotal in determining whether agroforestry’s impacts on nearby forests will be positive or negative, the authors say, and will depend on the prevalence of supportive policies.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/agroforestry-can-reduce-deforestation-but-supportive-policies-matter-study-finds/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/political-appointments-in-indonesian-climate-program-spark-outcry-over-accountability/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/political-appointments-in-indonesian-climate-program-spark-outcry-over-accountability/#respond 18 Mar 2025 08:59:44 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=295969 - The program is largely funded by Norway and the U.K., with critics warning that donor money is being misused for political appointments rather than forest conservation.
- Norway has called for accountability but remains passive, stating that fund allocation is Indonesia’s responsibility; activists have urged both Norway and the U.K. to audit spending and ensure funds aren’t misallocated.
- Experts warn that time is running out to meet Indonesia’s 2030 climate targets, and that failure could harm Indonesia’s global reputation and worsen climate-related disasters.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/political-appointments-in-indonesian-climate-program-spark-outcry-over-accountability/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/what-have-we-learned-from-15-years-of-redd-policy-research-analysis/ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/what-have-we-learned-from-15-years-of-redd-policy-research-analysis/#respond 07 Mar 2025 00:17:55 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=295437 - This analysis draws on more than a decade of comparative research and identifies a broad array of actors involved in REDD+, with large power differences between them. The authors argue that the power imbalances among these groups are obstructing progress toward shifting away from “business-as-usual” deforestation in the tropics.
- The ambition for sustainable forest “transformation” is at risk of being co-opted by those who stand to benefit from maintaining the status quo, and the authors say it is therefore important for the research community to keep asking what proposed reforms and changes may represent, and whom they serve.
- This article is an analysis. The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/what-have-we-learned-from-15-years-of-redd-policy-research-analysis/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2024/12/whats-the-tfff-a-forest-finance-tool-like-no-other-shows-promise-pitfalls/ https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2024/12/whats-the-tfff-a-forest-finance-tool-like-no-other-shows-promise-pitfalls/#respond 16 Dec 2024 23:15:40 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?post_type=podcasts&p=291545 Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2024/12/whats-the-tfff-a-forest-finance-tool-like-no-other-shows-promise-pitfalls/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/do-forest-conservation-pledges-work-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/do-forest-conservation-pledges-work-commentary/#respond 06 Nov 2024 17:10:29 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=289741 - It would be naive to expect pledges like it to quickly resolve decades long economic and political battles over land: their effect is limited without changes to forest funding, because forest clearance is usually driven by economic calculation.
- “The NYDF has not made history, but it did help redirect attention in a distracted world and create a benchmark for progress. Without it and the Glasgow Declaration, there would be less support for the many communities and institutions who are helping protect the two thirds of remaining tropical forests which are still standing,” a new op-ed states.
- This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/do-forest-conservation-pledges-work-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/is-the-delay-of-europes-deforestation-regulation-a-cause-for-regret-or-an-opportunity-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/is-the-delay-of-europes-deforestation-regulation-a-cause-for-regret-or-an-opportunity-commentary/#respond 05 Nov 2024 17:52:40 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=289700 - Is such a delay to be lamented, as many NGOs and commentators say? This is happening in a context of the weakening of many environmental measures, after all.
- “This ambitious regulation, with its undeniable objectives, is ill-conceived – because it ignores the problems of implementation – and is giving rise to unprecedented diplomatic tensions. Shouldn’t we take advantage of this probable postponement to try and correct some of the text’s major flaws?” a new op-ed asks.
- This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/is-the-delay-of-europes-deforestation-regulation-a-cause-for-regret-or-an-opportunity-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/carbon-markets-must-recognize-indigenous-high-forest-low-deforestation-areas-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/carbon-markets-must-recognize-indigenous-high-forest-low-deforestation-areas-commentary/#respond 24 Oct 2024 16:31:12 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=289126 - Carbon markets have mostly focused on areas with pre-existing deforestation, but communities like these with historically low deforestation need financing to support their conservation work, too, so shouldn’t HFLD regions get better access to the voluntary carbon market?
- “For too long, Indigenous and local communities who have preserved forests without compensation have been excluded from financial benefits linked to forest conservation. This is not just an environmental issue, but a matter of climate justice,” they argue.
- This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/carbon-markets-must-recognize-indigenous-high-forest-low-deforestation-areas-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/study-redd-doesnt-work-without-indigenous-peoples-but-fails-to-engage-them/ https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/study-redd-doesnt-work-without-indigenous-peoples-but-fails-to-engage-them/#respond 24 Oct 2024 15:19:20 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=289159 - The authors propose 12 principles to improve climate policies, based on themes such as supporting Indigenous territorial defense and their rights, encouraging Indigenous-led climate initiatives, and directing climate funding to these populations.
- Indigenous-led initiatives like RIA in the Amazon offer a feasible alternative to REDD+ and emphasize the importance of compensating them for their ecological services; however, they face challenges in getting adequate funding.
- Experts suggest that the lessons learned from REDD+ could be applied to the development of biodiversity credits to help make this emerging climate solution more inclusive from the get-go.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/study-redd-doesnt-work-without-indigenous-peoples-but-fails-to-engage-them/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/with-europes-move-to-delay-tropical-forest-protections-everything-burns-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/with-europes-move-to-delay-tropical-forest-protections-everything-burns-commentary/#respond 10 Oct 2024 19:51:17 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=288541 - This decision isn’t just destructive for forests, it’s also bad for business — it flies in the face of hard efforts by thousands of companies who did everything to get into compliance on time — and is also bad for democracy, a new op-ed argues.
- “For the millions of EU citizens who supported the law, here is a message of hope. We lost a battle with the Commission’s effort to delay the EUDR, but the war for our climate still hangs in the balance, and the fight is on. European elected representatives can yet stand firm in support of the global forests and millions of people who depend on them, and reject the Commission’s proposal.”
- This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/with-europes-move-to-delay-tropical-forest-protections-everything-burns-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/record-number-of-indigenous-land-titles-granted-in-peru-via-innovative-process-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/record-number-of-indigenous-land-titles-granted-in-peru-via-innovative-process-commentary/#respond 06 Sep 2024 15:59:11 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=287025 - Recently, 37 land titles were secured in the Peruvian Amazon in record time, between June 2023 to May 2024, via a partnership between two NGOs and the Peruvian government, using an innovative, low-cost, high-impact model to expedite the process.
- “We believe this model can be replicated in other regions of the Amazon and perhaps even beyond,” the authors of a new op-ed write.
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]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/record-number-of-indigenous-land-titles-granted-in-peru-via-innovative-process-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/sugarcane-megaproject-poses-latest-threat-to-papuas-forests-communities/ https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/sugarcane-megaproject-poses-latest-threat-to-papuas-forests-communities/#respond 19 Jun 2024 15:56:10 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=283450 - The plan calls for deforesting an area six times the size of Jakarta, even as the government touts the green credentials of the project in the form of the bioethanol that it plans to produce from the sugar.
- Activists have also warned that the project risks becoming yet another land grab that deprives Indigenous Papuans of their customary lands and rights without fair compensation.
- They add the warning signs are all there, including close parallels to similarly ambitious projects that failed, the alleged involvement of palm oil firms, and government insistences that this richly forested region of Indonesia doesn’t have much forest left.
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