An Alliance to Scale Up Action on Deforestation-free Supply Chains
Preserving and restoring forests is critical to averting the most dangerous climate change and achieving global goals. Deforestation-free supply chains are an important piece of the solution, but they...
View ArticleTFA 2020 Partners: The triple win of “produce-protect”
As we prepare to negotiate international action on climate and transition to pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals, a window of opportunity appears for a “triple win”: to deliver rural...
View ArticleBetter Growth with Forests
Three ways to scale up sustainable rural development at the forest frontier Meeting the rising demand for food and consumer goods has often come at the expense of forests, making commercial agriculture...
View ArticleAPP launches agroforestry programme in 500 villages to help protect...
APP launches agroforestry programme in 500 villages to help protect Indonesia’s forests Jakarta, 2nd December 2015 – Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) today announces a new commitment to support the...
View Article5 ways a climate deal would benefit the economy
By Paul Polman This article first appeared on the World Economic Forum Agenda. We know that Paris could determine our ability to keep global warming below 2 degrees and avoid its catastrophic impacts....
View ArticleQ&A with Mike Barry of M&S – the triple win of “produce-protect”
On 1 December during the Lima-Paris Action Agenda (LPAA) Forests Day in Paris the Consumer Goods Forum co-chairs, Unilever and Marks & Spencer announced their joint support of a “produce-protect”...
View ArticleWhy We Need to Include Indigenous Peoples in Climate Plans
This article first appeared on the World Economic Forum Agenda, in collaboration with Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org. The role of the world’s more than 370 million indigenous peoples in fighting...
View ArticleIs the world keeping its promise to protect forests?
This article first appeared on the World Economic Forum Agenda, in collaboration with Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org. The world is making sluggish progress towards meeting an international goal...
View ArticlePress Release: New Foundation Launches to Provide Innovative Financing...
Jakarta, 6th December 2015 – Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) has initiated the establishment of a new independent organisation, the Belantara Foundation, that will create an innovative new direct...
View ArticleFive reasons to be hopeful about stopping deforestation
This article first appeared on the World Economic Forum Agenda. We know that global demand for agricultural and forest commodities is soaring. Predictions suggest the world’s population will reach...
View ArticleWhat Paris Outcomes Mean for Forests
In 2016, outcomes from last year’s climate summit in Paris provide reasons to hope that we can save the world’s remaining tropical forests before it’s too late. Here are the top five reasons why: The...
View ArticleHow can Indonesia extinguish its forest fires for good?
In recent months, Indonesia has again come under the international spotlight for a problem that has dogged the country for more than two decades – haze resulting from uncontrolled and sometimes...
View ArticleHow is your breakfast linked to forest fires and child labour?
While eating your breakfast this morning, did you wonder if the butter on your bread might have contributed to the recent forest fires in Indonesia? Did you decide to put on clothes that are free of...
View ArticlePress Release: Private Sector Companies Announce Voluntary Support to...
Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 Press Release: Private Sector Companies Announce Voluntary Support to President Joko Widodo’s Peat Protection and Restoration Programme On the occasion of the first Annual...
View ArticleMove Beyond Supply Chains to Achieve Sustainable Palm Oil in Indonesia
It’s time collate our lessons learned through monitoring individual supply chains and put them into scalable action Over the past decade, as we have faced challenges such as climate change and...
View ArticleWhy indigenous people are key to protecting our forests
This article first appeared on the World Economic Forum Agenda. There’s a first time for everything: in its preamble, the Paris Agreement on climate change recognized the intrinsic relationship...
View ArticleIndonesia’s forest fires: what you need to know
This article first appeared on the World Economic Forum Agenda. A state of emergency has been declared in Indonesia, as forest fires once again rage across parts of the country. The disaster comes...
View ArticleHow can we make palm oil more sustainable?
This article is published in collaboration with [was first published by] the Thomson Reuters Foundation (trust.org). Efforts to certify entire districts or provinces as producers of sustainable palm...
View ArticleQ&A: Can palm oil ever be sustainable?
This article first appeared on the World Economic Forum Agenda. Two of the world’s largest palm oil companies, Unilever and Wilmar, tell us how their commitments to ending deforestation are working...
View ArticleHow the Tolo River People of Colombia Harnessed Carbon Finance to Save Their...
Colombia’s Tolo River People collectively own 32,000 acres of rainforest, and that forest feeds the river on which they depend. But ownership means nothing if you can’t protect it. Four years ago, they...
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