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$1.5 billion Congo Basin pledge a good start but not enough, experts say

Jim Tan 3 Dec 2021

Conflict and climate change are big barriers for Africa’s Great Green Wall

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Nov 2021

Questions over who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

Latoya Abulu 23 Nov 2021

Indigenous people get less than 1% of climate funding? It’s actually worse (commentary)

Torbjørn Gjefsen 19 Nov 2021

‘Standing with your feet in the water’: COP26 struggles to succeed

Justin Catanoso 12 Nov 2021
Indigenous family in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

New global partnership aims to remove barriers to Indigenous climate finance

Laurel Sutherland 9 Nov 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021

$1.7 billion pledged in support of Indigenous and local communities’ land tenure

Laurel Sutherland 2 Nov 2021
Indigenous woman speaking at COP25

Indigenous leaders to push for land tenure rights as climate solution at COP26

Sandra Cuffe 27 Oct 2021
Satellites provide a new data point for evaluating the impact of conservation programs. Image credit: Microsoft Zoom Earth

Donor agencies should ditch the club and embrace more locals (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 13 Oct 2021

Forest finance expected to advance under new TREES standard and LEAF Coalition

Aurora Solá 28 Sep 2021
Pine forest in California's Sierra Nevada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Climate philanthropy’s opportunity for impact: Q&A with Bridgespan’s Sonali Patel

Rhett A. Butler 7 Sep 2021

Behind the buzz of ESG investing, a focus on tech giants and no regulation

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Apr 2021

Total’s East African oil pipeline to go ahead despite stiff opposition

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Apr 2021

‘There is no vaccine for climate change,’ U.N. environment chief says

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2021
Redwood forest in California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

‘Nature is next’: Q&A with Finance for Biodiversity’s Simon Zadek

Rhett A. Butler 27 Nov 2020
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Experts question integrity of Indonesia’s claim of avoided deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Sep 2020

Leaders on the cutting edge of conservation recognized on International Women’s Day

Genevieve Belmaker 6 Mar 2020

Success of Microsoft’s ‘moonshot’ climate pledge hinges on forest conservation

Justin Catanoso 3 Feb 2020

COP25: Self-serving G20 spites youth, humanity, world at climate talks

Justin Catanoso 17 Dec 2019

Gabon could earn up to $150 million for forest conservation

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2019

’Green’ bonds finance industrial tree plantations in Brazil

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

Our brains can lead us astray when making ‘eco-friendly’ decisions

Mongabay.com 4 Mar 2019

Fears of a dire precedent as Brazil seeks results-based REDD+ payment

Sarah Sax 25 Feb 2019

As climate change takes its toll, world leaders call for adaptation

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Oct 2018

Indonesia turns to green finance for development projects

Basten Gokkon 25 Jun 2018

Beyond polar bears: Arctic animals share in vulnerable climate future

Gloria Dickie 7 Mar 2018

Nigeria pledges to restore nearly 10 million acres of degraded land

Mike Gaworecki 7 Dec 2017

Can agroforestry propel climate commitments? Interview with Peter Minang

Giovanni Ortolani 16 Nov 2017

COP23: U.S., wealthy nations curtail climate aid for developing world

Justin Catanoso 16 Nov 2017

Should I stay, or should I go: is U.S. facing a climate scientist brain drain?

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2017

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