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No Climate Transition Without Securing Land Rights
The ongoing session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) dwells upon the theme, ‘Land, Life....
Climate change
Delhi’s Heatwave: A Warning For Worse Summers To Come?
India could experience further unprecedented and prolonged heatwaves, extreme weathers, increased hospitalizations even leading up to fatalities and irreparable damage to agriculture and wildlife...
Climate change
Tree Loss In Tropics Casts Doubt Over Climate Goals
Tropics lost 11.1 million hectares of forest cover in 2021, with the Amazon, Democratic Republic of Congo seeing the greatest losses. The need for...
Agriculture
Can Forests Undo Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic, Conflict?
Trees can provide means for recovery and inclusive, resilient and sustainable economies, if action to unlock their potential is stepped up. For instance, the...
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UN Recognizes Broadcaster Attenborough With Lifetime Achievement Award
Attenborough, 95, is arguably the world’s best-known natural history broadcaster. During a career that began with the dawn of television, he has penned and...
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A Thing (or Two) of Beauty…… in Asia’s Forests
A new publication has distilled evidence of how forests from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam are the source of ingredients for the global...
Climate change
Study points to doubled carbon losses from deforestation in tropics in early 2000s
According to a newly published study in the journal, Nature Sustainability, the acceleration of forest carbon loss highlights the urgent need to halt tropical...
Climate change
‘Plant for Pakistan’ initiative to reverse deforestation, combat climate change
Pakistan’s billion trees afforestation project focuses on forestry, protected areas, national parks, clean energy, climate resilience, sanitation and water management. It is presently in...
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Face of Climate Change, Poverty and Hunger in the Asia Pacific Region
Innovation and entrepreneurship can fast-track the spread of more effective and sustainable solutions that combat climate change whilst equally...
Sri Lankan Economy Shifting to a New Growth Path: Finance Minister Shehan Semasinghe
Minister Shehan Semasinghe said that the government has adopted other reform programmes aside from the debt restructuring process to...
How Social Forestry and Private Investments Can Save Indonesia’s Forests
Throughout Indonesia, traditional customs like Ri’i that belong to the country’s myriad ethnic groups and local communities are deeply...
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Face of Climate Change, Poverty and Hunger in the Asia Pacific Region
Innovation and entrepreneurship can fast-track the spread of more...
Sri Lankan Economy Shifting to a New Growth Path: Finance Minister Shehan Semasinghe
Minister Shehan Semasinghe said that the government has adopted...
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