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Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Africa needs COP29 funding & international finance reform to manage climate change (commentary)

David Akana 4 Nov 2024
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Here’s how to reform multilateral funding to get more money directly to communities (commentary)

Sushil Raj | Minnie Degawan | Rony Brodsky 23 Oct 2024
Oil palm plantation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

Indonesia investigates suspected corruption in palm oil amnesty program

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Oct 2024
Lioness in Tanzania. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

NGOs urge banks and China to refuse support for Ugandan oil projects

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2024

U.S. court approves historic settlement for Honduran farmers’ case against the World Bank’s IFC

Jared Olson 10 Oct 2024
Red river hogs (Potamochoerus porcus) scavenging at a poached elephant's carcass, Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park. Image by otomops, via Wikicommons (CC BY 4.0)

Congo looks to monetize its high-integrity forests

Rosie Pioth 9 Oct 2024

Indigenous perspectives and a fossil fuel phaseout treaty featured at Climate Week

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Oct 2024
Indigenous Masai women at a community leadership meeting in Kenya. Photo by Edna Kaptoyo, Community Conservation Resilience Initiative, 2018

Indigenous communities can decide for themselves on carbon market risks (commentary)

Kanyinke Sena / Lemada (Bariki) Lesamana Lelya / Aaron Marr Page 27 Sep 2024
Javan lutung by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Biodiversity still a low consideration in international finance: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Sep 2024
Grevy's zebras in Samburu Reserve, Kenya

At Climate Week and beyond, investing in community conservation pays big dividends (commentary)

Resson Kantai Duff 26 Sep 2024
Flooding in Thailand

Record-breaking floods in northern Thailand intensify scrutiny of Mekong dam project

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2024
Commodities such as corn, cattle and soy are major drivers of deforestation yet receive heavy financing from banks. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Investors urge banks to cut commodity-driven deforestation

Shanna Hanbury 16 Sep 2024
A coral reef off the coast of Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Ronal Mambrasar/Konservasi Indonesia.

$35m debt-for-nature deal aims to protect Indonesia’s coral reefs

M Ambari 30 Aug 2024
The rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros). Image courtesy of Mark Louis Benedict via Flickr.

Biodiversity’s Tower of Babel: The confusion & disorientation of Convention on Biological Diversity Decision 15/9 (commentary)

Joseph Henry Vogel 24 Aug 2024
An elephant in Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

Leading the charge in philanthropy across Asia: Interview with Lim Seok Hui

Matthew Boyer 24 Jul 2024
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

‘Fungibility’ could sink Convention on Biodiversity’s funding mechanism Decision 15/9 (commentary)

Joseph Henry Vogel 17 Jul 2024

Loopholes allow multilateral development banks to fund captive coal in Indonesia: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2024

Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2024
Rainbow over Batanta and Dayang islands in Indonesia.

How philanthropy in Asia is evolving

Matthew Boyer 4 Jul 2024
The Florida corridor would preserve myriad landscapes and ecosystems. Image by Ethan Coyle/Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation.

To conserve large landscapes like the Florida Wildlife Corridor, payments for ecosystem services could be key (commentary)

Joshua Daskin, Jen Guyton 19 Jun 2024

Weak banking regulations leave two-thirds of Amazon vulnerable to oil and gas

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jun 2024

As Wall Street assigns a dollar value to nature, Indigenous economics charts different path

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 5 Jun 2024

Sustainability in the extractive industries is a paradox

Timothy J. Killeen 29 May 2024

Pressure grows on banks to end business with Indonesian coal giant Adaro

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2024
Xayaburi Dam

Banks backing Mekong hydropower failing on due diligence, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 20 May 2024
Jaguar drinking from a river in Mexico. Photo courtesy of Gerardo Ceballos/Gerardo Ceballos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, National Alliance for Jaguar Conservation.

Will a billionaire bankroll biodiversity? CBD Decision 15/9 as potential ‘goldmine’ (commentary)

Joseph Henry Vogel 14 May 2024
Rescue efforts in the aftermath of the GLOF event in Sikkim on October 4. Photo by Press Information Bureau, Government of India.

Multilateral development banks must prioritize clean & community-led energy projects (commentary)

Alessandro Ramazzotti, Vaishnavi Varadarajan, Anggita Indari 1 May 2024
A man from the Vedda community in Sri Lanka.

In largest ever study, Indigenous and local communities report the impacts of climate change

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Apr 2024

Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2024
Women carrying saplings.

New online tool is first to track funding to Indigenous, local and Afro-descendant communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Apr 2024
Eucalyptus trees at the Burapha Agro-Forestry plantation near Xathany District, Laos, 2023. Image courtesy of Melissa Lo.

Land tenure lesson from Laos for forest carbon projects (commentary)

Melissa Lo / Simran Kaur / Oluwole Soyinka / Sheng Huan Tang / Song Fu 2 Apr 2024
Wallace's Passage between Bam and Weigeo islands in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

How effective are giant funding pledges by major conservation donors?

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Mar 2024

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