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Sunset over the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mobilizing Amazon societies to reduce forest carbon emissions and unlock the carbon market (commentary)

Dan Nepstad, Monica de los Rios, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta 13 Mar 2023
Gas-fueled power plant in Riau, Indonesia. Image courtesy of PLN.

Indonesia aims to use gas in foreign-funded energy transition; critics cry foul

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Mar 2023
A clownfish in the Red Sea. Image by Cinzia Osele Bismarck via Ocean Image Bank.

On climate & biodiversity, where are we, post-COP15? (commentary)

Zoë Quiroz Cullen 4 Jan 2023
Residents of Hanging Site.

In Sierra Leone’s fishing villages, a reality check for climate aid

Ashoka Mukpo 15 Dec 2022
Indigenous delegates at COP27 in Egypt. Image courtesy of UN climate change via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Words that didn’t make the cut: What happened to Indigenous rights at COP27

Dimitri Selibas 25 Nov 2022

Despite pledges, obstacles stifle community climate and conservation funding

John Cannon 23 Nov 2022

COP27 boosts carbon trading and ‘non-market’ conservation: But can they save forests?

Alec Luhn 22 Nov 2022

Indonesia to build coal plants despite $20b deal on clean energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Nov 2022

COP27 long on pledges, short on funds for forests — Congo Basin at risk

Alec Luhn 18 Nov 2022

COP27: ‘Brazil is back’ to fight deforestation, Lula says, but hurdles await

Alec Luhn 17 Nov 2022

Indonesia seals $20 billion deal with G7 to speed up clean energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2022

COP27: Climate Loss & Damage talks now on agenda, but U.S. resistance feared

Rachel Donald 8 Nov 2022
Members of an Indigenous community in Guangaje, Ecuador after the blessing of a water spring. Image by Azzedine Rouichi via Unsplash (Public domain).

Small share of land rights pledge went to Indigenous groups: Progress report

John Cannon 7 Nov 2022
Person holding cardboard sign saying Stop EACOP", concealing lower half of their face. Photothèque AT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

As banks fund oil pipeline, campaigners question their environmental pledges

Thomas Lewton 1 Nov 2022
Rainbow over Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

In new climate deal, Norway will pay Indonesia $56 million for drop in deforestation, emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2022

Early retirement for Indonesian coal plants could cut CO2, boost jobs, analysis says

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2022
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian banks prop up coal industry increasingly shunned by outside lenders

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2022

Africa wants its climate money. Will rich countries pay?

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Sep 2022

Planned coal plants fizzle as Japan ends financing in Indonesia, Bangladesh

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jun 2022
Gold mine in South Kivu, Congo. Image courtesy of the Sasha Lezhnev Enough Project.

Results of mining tax for reforestation in the DRC leave more questions than answers

Didier Makal 19 May 2022
Coal mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Banks bet big on coal in Indonesia, bucking global shift away from fossil fuel

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 May 2022

Funding, titling project for Indigenous-led organizations launched

Laurel Sutherland 25 Apr 2022

International funding nowhere near enough for Indonesia to cut emissions: Study

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2022

IPCC report calls for ‘immediate and deep’ carbon cuts to slow climate change

John Cannon 5 Apr 2022

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Moore Foundation pledges extra $300m to boost conservation of Amazon

Laurel Sutherland 10 Mar 2022

Banning high-deforestation palm oil has limited impact on saving forests: Study

Loren Bell 3 Mar 2022

COP27 must deliver climate finance where it is needed most (commentary)

Jack Stuart, Sally Yozell, Valentine Ochanda 20 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s clean energy transition must start with clean rivers (commentary)

Warief Djajanto Basorie 11 Jan 2022
Indigenous protest

Mongabay’s Top 10 Indigenous News Stories of 2021

Latoya Abulu 30 Dec 2021
Embera woman within the forest

Conservation projects in Mesoamerica make the case for Indigenous climate funding

Dimitri Selibas 16 Dec 2021

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