Environmentalist and UN messenger for peace Dr. Jane Goodall set down a powerful challenge to climate change leaders gathered in San Francisco this week to recognize forests as part of the solution.
The Sustainable Land Bonds report, produced in partnership with the Climate Bonds Initiative, shows how tropical forest countries can use sustainable land bonds to access the capital they need to transition to sustainable, low-carbon land-management systems.
A new project seeks to kickstart a revival for the world’s largest rainforest by planting new trees – tens of millions of them. The project, announced in September in Brazil, aims to restore 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon by 2023.
A group of 23 companies, Walmart, McDonald’s and Nestle, signed up to a new resolution to halt the destruction of the Brazilian cerrado and ensure that any future commercial exploitation of the area is sustainable and well-managed.
For years,private investors have been urging policymakersto help them invest in protecting forests.