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Hopes dim as COP25 delegates dicker over Article 6 and world burns: critics

Justin Catanoso 9 Dec 2019

COP25 may put climate at greater risk by failing to address forests

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2019

As climate change disrupts the annual monsoon, India must prepare (Commentary)

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 19 Sep 2019

UN and policymakers, wake up! Burning trees for energy is not carbon neutral (commentary)

Mary Booth 16 Sep 2019

Japan builds coal plants abroad that wouldn’t be allowed at home: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2019

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, but labeled ‘propaganda’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2019

Indonesia’s president signals a transition away from coal power

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2019

Carbon to burn: UK net-zero emissions pledge undermined by biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 19 Jun 2019

Is REDD ready for its closeup? Reports vary

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2019

EU sued to stop burning trees for energy; it’s not carbon neutral: plaintiffs

Justin Catanoso 6 Mar 2019

Brazil to receive first-ever results-based REDD+ payment, but concerns remain

Sarah Sax 1 Mar 2019

Policymakers are not adequately factoring land use and human diets into climate mitigation strategies: Study

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2019
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Image by Christopher Brunner/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

2018’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Douglas McCauley, Francis Joyce 24 Dec 2018

COP24: Summit a step forward, but fails to address climate urgency

Justin Catanoso 17 Dec 2018

COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris

Justin Catanoso 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

COP24: Tropical deforestation risks undermining 1.5-degree warming limit

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2018

COP24: Europe looks to fill the leadership void left by the U.S.

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2018
Coal protest in Indonesia

Activists urge end to South Korean funding of Indonesia coal plants

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2018

California targets fossil fuel-free electricity by 2045

Mongabay.com 13 Sep 2018

REDD+ projects database: where forest carbon emissions reduction projects are underway

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Aug 2018

In export- and domestic-driven coal boon, Indonesia neglects renewables

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 May 2018

UN forest accounting loophole allows CO2 underreporting by EU, UK, US

Justin Catanoso 2 May 2018
Adult male orangutan in Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia tries to learn from Brazil’s success in REDD+

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Nov 2017

Indonesia to miss carbon emissions target under existing climate policies: study

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Oct 2017

Stopping climate change may be harder than scientists thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jul 2017

Southeast Asia’s coal boom could cause 70,000 deaths per year by 2030, report says

Isabel Esterman 16 Jan 2017

Forest advocates say zero-carbon goals too reliant on unrealistic tech

Justin Catanoso 15 Nov 2016

Pledging to reduce emissions while expanding its power grid, Indonesia walks a fine line

Melati Kaye 28 Oct 2016

China to shut down 4,300 old coal mines, ban new coal mines

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jan 2016

Will Uganda be able to fulfill its pledge to protect its forests?

Arnest Tumwesige 6 Jan 2016

Peatland emissions from oil palm conversion highly understated: report

Mike Gaworecki 16 Jul 2015

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